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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44280	An essay concerning the Sabbath, or, The Sabbath-days rest from controversie wherein is asserted that our Christian Sabbath, Lords-day, or Sunday is the very same day of the week which was anciently observed by the Jews and Gentiles for the solemn day of their solemn weekly worship, before Israels coming out of Ægypt and after that by gentiles : prefaced, with an introduction thereunto touching the true meaning of Gen. 2 v, 2, 3 / by N. Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing H2564; ESTC R28681	38,857	162

¶ 1. In that when the parts of the Natural day are mentioned in Scripture before Israels coming out of Aegypt the Morning was set before the Night Gen. 1.16 17 18. God made two great Lights the greater Light to rule the DAY and the lesser Light to rule the Night he made also the Stars And God set them in the Firmament of Heaven And to rule over the DAY and over the NIGHT and to divide the LIGHT from the DARKNESS Likewise in Gen. 7.4 Yet seven DAYS and I will cause it to rain upon the Earth forty DAYS and forty Nights And vers 12. The rain was upon the Earth forty DAYES and forty Nights Item Gen. 8. last While the Earth remains Seed-time and Harvest and cold and heat and Summer and Winter and DAY and Night shall not cease ¶ 2. Because at what time soever or hour of the day light the Scripture speaks of the following Night it expresseth it in this manner To Night This Night This same Night as belonging to the same day and not to the following day See Gen. 19.34 Where THIS Night is exprest as the Night-darkness that followed the day's Day-light immediately foregoing as belonging thereunto So Gen. 26. 24. And Isaac went up from thence to Beersheba and the Lord appeared unto him THE SAME NIGHT that is the Night belonging to the immediate preceding DAY LIGHT wherein Isaac Travelled up to Beersheba ¶ 3. When at any hour of the day-light the Scripture mentions Night it speaks not of the Night as belonging to the day following but as belonging to the day before-going saying Yester-night Gen. 19.34 YESTERNIGHT I lay with my Father And Gen. 31.42 God hath seen saith Jacob to Laban mine affliction and the labours of my hands and rebuked thee YESTERNIGHT But when at Night they spake of the Day following they used not to say TO DAY or THIS DAY but to MORROW or the MORROW AFTER Num. 33.3 They departed from Rameses in the first Moneth in the fifteenth day of the first moneth on the MORROW AFTER the Passover the Children of Israel went out with an high hand c. So 1 Sam. 19.11 And Saul sent Messengers to David's house to watch him and to stay him in the MORNING And Michael David's Wife told him saying If thou save not thy life TO NIGHT TO MORROW thou shalt be slain signifying by the morrow another day Mat. 6.34 Jam. 4. 13 14. Sect. 2. Yea I might further assert That after Israels coming out of Aegypt the Jews mentioned in Scripture did commonly accompt the Artificial day of Day light to be the former part of the day in respect of their Civil affairs Exod. 13.21 22. The Lord went before them by DAY in a Pillar of a Cloud to lead them the WAY and by night in a Pillar of Fire to give them Light He took not away the Pillar of the Cloud by DAY nor the Pillar of Fire by Night So Levit. 8.35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation DAY and Night See also Num. 9.21 So it was when the Cloud was taken up in the MORNING then they journyed whether it was by DAY or by Night CAP. IV. Of the change of the beginning of the Natural Day and the Effect thereof Sect. 1. WHen the Israelites were come out of Aegypt the NIGHT was made excepted as before excepted the former part of the Natural day This appears ¶ 1. Because a never to-be forgotten Memorial or Memorandum is solemnly put upon that Night wherein they march'd out of Aegypt Exod. 12.42 It is a Night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the Land of Aegypt This is that Night of the Lord to be observed of all the Children of Israel in their Generations ¶ 2. The Israelites were commanded after their coming out of Aegypt to celebrate the Sabbath from Evening to Evening Levit. 23.32 N. B. From Evening to Evening shall ye celebrate your Sabbath Sect. 2. The new beginning of the Week Whereupon they so begin their Week-days also whereby their Sabbath day was measured out unto them to be their Seventh day otherwise their Seventh day would not have been proportionable to their six days of labour Sect. 3. A new beginning of the Year From hence also their Year had a new beginning For whereas formerly they began their Year in the Month Tisri N. B. which consisted chiefly of our September after all their ingathering of all their Fruits of the Earth Exod. 23.16 And the Feast of Harvest the First-fruits of thy labours which thou hast sown in the Field and the Feast of INGATHERING which is in the END of the YEAR when thou hast gathered in the Labours out of the field Likewise Ex. 34.22 And thou shalt observe the Feast of weeks of the First-fruits of Wheat-Harvest and the Feast of Ingathering at the YEARS-END Now hence forward they were to begin their Year with the Moneth in which they had their Freedom from Aegypt Exod. 12. 2. This Moneth shall be unto you the BEGINNING of MONETHS it shall be the FIRST MONETH of the YEAR to you Which Moneth was called in the Hebrew Abib and by the Chaldee Nisan consisting partly of our March and partly of our April being with them the first Moneth after the Vernal Aequinoctial that is after the Spring-Aequality of the Day and Night So that from after their deliverance from Aegypt the Israelites had a new Year and a new Moneth and a new day to begin their year withal N. B. So that although in respect of their Civil Affairs they began their Year their Moneth and Day as they did before they came out of Aegypt yet in this New Ecclesiastical or Sacred Year they began their Day at Even All their Sabbaths and all other their Sacred days and so also their Week-days for measuring out to them their Sacred days they began at Even They had the Evening to be the former part of the Day Levit. 23.32 Sect. 4. To speak a little more particularly to the said Change That the Artificial day of Day-light among the Jews consisted of Twelve hours is evident by Scripture Act. 2.15 These men are not drunken as ye suppose seeing it is but the third hour of the day that is Nine of the Clock in the Morning so that Six in the Morning was the first hour of their day And Mat. 27.45 Now from the Sixth hour that is Twelve of the Clock at noon-day there was darkness to the Ninth hour i. e. Three of the Clock in the Afternoon And consequently the Twelfth hour was Six of the Clock at Evening the period of their day And proportionably was the reckoning of their Night ¶ 1. Now as Moses put back the account saying Levit 23.32 From Evening to Evening shall ye celebrate your Sabbath And upon that footing of the account Exod. 12.41 42. And it came to pass at the end of the Four hundred and thirty