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A56363	Holy time: or, The true limits of the Lords Day I. Proving, that the Lords Day doth begin with the natural morning, and that the morning of the natural day doth begin at mid-night; and so consequently that the Lords Day must both begin with the natural morning at mid-night, and end with the natural evening at mid-night. II. Proving, that the Jews beginning of the day at the sun-set evening was only in relation to the date of the person purified from his levitical uncleanness. III. That the Jews themselves did hold, that the natural day did continue after sun-set till mid-night. Part II. By William Pynchon Esq; Published by authority.	Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing P4308A; ESTC R27470	105,890	137

of the world Hence it follows that then it is morning in some Countries near unto mid-night especially when the daies are at the longest and known experience doth tell us that in the North parts of England the day doth sometimes begin to break near unto mid-night and indeed the day-light when the daies are at the longest is scarse ever out of the Sky in those parts except a little while about mid-night Hence it follows that seeing it is day-break sometimes near unto Mid-night then why may not the morning begin at mid-night all the year long as well in one Country as in another seeing the God of Nature hath set such an eminent mark upon mid-night and upon mid-day which doubtless was to set out the bounds and limits of the Natural morning and of the evening Fifthly Both Scripture and experience doth tell us that there is a certain Star called the Morning Star which at some time of the year is seen to arise not long after Mid-night and all men call it morning as soon as that Star is risen and in some parts when the daies are at the longest it riseth near unto Mid-night but it alwaies riseth before it is day break Sixthly It is evident that the morning begins in the dark night by this phrase in Psal 110. 3. The womb of the early Morning I purpose not to meddle with the mystical sense of these words because it concerns not the Argument in hand but I will onely meddle with the phrase for the phrase sake onely for this phrase must have some proper allusion to some natural truth Mibschar we translate Morning but saith Mr. Ainsworth the letter M is a Preposition signifying From or Before and in that respect some translators do render the text thus Before the womb of the early Morning this phrase must have an allusion to some proper truth and I can find nothing that may so fitly be called the womb of the early Morning as the first darkness was for out of this darkness God created the morning light and in this respect the Morning may well be divided into several degrees of time 1 The first Darkness was the womb of the Morning light 2 From the womb of the morning proceeded the Son of the morning called the morning Star as soon as it was created and it is now called the Son of the morning Isa 14. 12. 3. Then follows the ascending of the morning or day-break Gen. 32. 24 26. 4 Then follows the time of killing the morning Sacrifice namely when the face of all the East is inlightned which is between day-break and Sun-rising See Ains in Num. 28. 4. And certain it is that the morning Sacrifice was not onely slain but also offered before Sun-rising because the Meat Offering which was alwaies offered after the Burnt Offering was offered before Sun rising as it appears by 2 King 3. 20 22. and the Burnt Offering was alwaies first Lev. 1. and then the Meat Offering Lev. 2. now though the Morning Sacrifice was offered before Sun-rising yet the Evening Sacrifices of all sorts must be offered before Sun-set For the Hebrew Doctors say that after Sun-set the blood of all Sacrifices became unlawful See Ains in Lev. 1. 6 9. 5. Then follows the morning of the Artificiall day at Sun-rising Psal 104. 22 23. for God did appoint the Sun to rule and limit the Artificiall day Gen. 1. 6. Then followed the time of morning Prayer at the third hour of the day namely at our nine a clock First By these gradations to the morning we may see the vanity of their opinion that hold no other time to be called the morning properly but a point of time onely at the beginning of the Artificial day all the rest they say is called the morning improperly Secondly By these gradations to the morning it is evident that the first darkness was the root or womb of the morning and therefore at last it was called Morning SECT 3. Proving that the Morning in all likelihood doth begin at mid-night besides the former certain grounds from the exact beginning and ending of the Evening FIrst I will endeavor to prove that the morning doth begin at mid-night by an argument drawn from Job 26. 7. compared with Gen. 1. 2. Job saith That God stretcheth out the North upon the empty and saith Moses The Earth was empty and void namely as long as darkness was upon the face of the deep But as soon as the light was created the earth could not be said to be empty and void any longer for then the deep was adorned with the light as with a most glorious ornament Object 4. The first Darkness did continue twelve hours upon the face of the deep after the general matter called Earth was created Or thus how long was the Earth empty and void before the light was created Answ The answer is from Job That the Earth was empty and void all the space of time that the North point is stretched out upon a Compass Dial namely the space of six hours for the North point on a Compass Dial doth stretch it self out untill it meet with the beginning of the East point the four ends of the two Lines of Longitude and Latitude do make the four Cardinal Points of the Compass North East South and West Hence it follows that the North point is stretched out to the East point and that is just six hours by the Compass Dyal and so long saith Job the Globe was empty but as soon as God created Light out of Darkness which began to appear by degrees first By a Twilight and then shined forth at the East point then the Earth was no longer empty and void but it was adorued with the light If any man can give a better Interpretation for the stretching out the North upon the Empty I shall bee glad to see it But if the first Darkness had been twelve hours long then Job should have said that God stretched out the West point as well as the North point upon the Empty but Job doth not say so but only that he stretched out the North upon the Empty and therefore it follows 1 That the first Darkness was not twelve hours but only six hours long upon the face of the deep before the light was created 2 Hence it follows that the first half of that twelve hours Darkness that succeeded the Artificial Day did make up the first darkness to be a just Night of twelve hours and after this manner both these parts of Darkness did meet together at the North point as I have exemplified the matter upon a Compass Dyal and the North Land in Jer. 23. 8. may according to the Hebrew be read from the Land of darkness And why else doth the Prophet in Psal 89. 12. begin the time of the first Creation in order from the North point but to remember us where and how long the darkness did continue upon the face of the deep after the Earth was created before the light was created And so likewise for this Reason Job doth teach us in what order we must place the four ends of the two Lines of Latitude and Longitude now called the foure Cardinall Points of

the Compass by placing a man in this order to view the Globe 1 He calleth the North point the left hand 2 He calleth the South point the right hand 3 He calleth the East point before 4 He calleth the West point behind See Tremelius for this in Job 23. 89. So then He that desires to behold the Globe in a right order how the God of Nature did divide it and quarter it must place the North point of the Globe at his left hand the East before the South at his right hand and the West behind See Ains in Psal 89. 13. and in Numb 2. 3 29. 2 The holy Scriptures do often direct us to observe the foure ends of the two Lines of Latitude and Longitude 1 Because they divide the whole earth into four quarters 2 Because they divide the heavens into four quarters And in this respect the four quarters of the Earth are sometimes called the four wings or the four corners of the Earth Revel 7. 1. Numb 24. 17. Isa 11. 12. Ezek. 7. 2. Job 37. 3. and 38. 13. 2 The Heavens are divided into four quarters and in this respect the four Winds are said to come from the four quarters of Heaven Jer. 49. 36. Ezek. 37. 9. Dan. 7. 2. and 8. 2. Zach. 2. 6. Mat. 24. 31. And when the Lines of Latitude and Longitude are drawn upon a Compass Dyal or upon a Globe then they make the four winds in the four quarters of Heaven to lie thus and to be called thus North-East South-East South-west North-west And thus the Holy Scripture doth force us to observe the various use of these two Lines of Longitude and Latitude and therefore doubtless Job was not ignorant but spake as a man of knowledge when he said that God stretched out the North upon the Empty First He was not ignorant of the North point Nor secondly How far it stretched Nor thirdly of the time of the Globes emptiness 3 Ezekiel doth direct us to take notice of the North point as the first in order of the sour Cardinal points because he doth first begin the division of the Land of Canaan from the North quarter and so he ends it with the West quarter read Ezek. 47. from ver 15. to the end of the Chapter and in this order also the Lord was pleased to let Moses take a view of the land he stood in the Land of Gilead and from thence in the first place he viewed Dan which was the furthest Northward and Northally in Galilee which lay also Northward Secondly Then he viewed the land of Ephraim and half Manasseh which lay Eastward from him in the middle of the Land Thirdly Then he viewed the Land of Judah to the South And fourthly Then he viewed the Land of Jerico which lay in the West of Canaan See Ains in Deut. 34. 1 2 3. Secondly I will indeavor to prove that the Morning began with the first darkness and that the first darkness must be placed at the North point by another phrase of Job for Job doth tell us that when the winds have purged the Air and made it clear from clouds and vapours that then out of the North a golden light doth shew it self Job 37. 22. Our eie-sight may witness the truth of this point for in a clear Morning before Sun-rising we may often see a golden list of light stretching it self from the North point to the East and again after Sun-set we may often see a golden list of light stretching it self from the West point to the North point This Observation First Of the golden list from North to East may teach us that the root of the Morning comes from the North point where the Midnight begins by the Compass-Dyall And Secondly The golden list in the Evening after Sun-set from West to North may teach us that the Evening doth reach unto Mid-night or to the North point Thirdly I prove that the Natural Morning doth being at Mid-night because the morning of the fifteenth day of Nishan began at Mid-night I collect it thus Moses at the first passeover in Egypt gave a very strict charge to all the Israelites that no man should go out of the door of his house untill the Morning Exod. 12. 22. namely not untill the morning of the fifteenth day was come this was Moses express charge Hence I reason thus if any man of Israel had gone out of the door of his house before the morning of the fifteenth day was truely come contrary to this charge as those did that went out of the door of their houses to gather Manna on the Sabbath-day morning they would have been condemned as Transgressors for it as they were that gathered Manna on the Sabbath day morning Exod. 16. 27. 28. But all the people of Israel went out of the doors of their houses either at Mid-night or presently after as it appears by ver 33. and 39. and yet none of them were condemned as transgressors for it But on the contrary their exact obedience to all Moses commands is twice over testified in ver 28. and twice over again in ver 50. The Text saith they did all things as God commanded Moses and Aaron so did they Even as exactly as Noah did in making the Arke Gen. 6. 22. or as Moses did in making the Tabernacle Exod. 40. 16. for their obedience is alike set out by the same double expression Therefore seeing all the people were thus exact in their obedience to all Moses commands it follows that they did not go out of the doors of their houses untill the morning of the fifteenth day was come and yet they went out of the doors of their houses at Mid-night or presently after because they knew that the morning of the fifteenth day was begun at Mid-night Yea It is evident that Moses intended they should all go out of their doors in the Morning presently after Mid-night because he had foretold them that all the first-born of Egypt should be slain at Mid-night Exod. 11. 4 5. And secondly He had foretold them that the Egyptians would thrust them out of Egypt v. 1. and that the Nobles would come and bow down to Moses saying Go thou out and all the people at thy feet Exod. 11. 8. Yea Moses did prepare them for a sudden departing from their houses because he commanded to eat the Passeover with their loyns girded with their shooes on their feet and with their staves in their hands and to eat it in haste Exod. 12. 11. all these things do testifie that Moses intended they should go out of the doors of their houses as soon as ever the morning of the fifteenth day was come and he meant it was come as soon as Midnight was come Object 5. I

Holy Time OR The True Limits of the Lords Day I. Proving That the Lords Day doth begin with the Natural Morning and that the Morning of the Natural day doth begin at Mid-night and so consequently that the Lords Day must both begin with the Natural Morning at Mid-night and end with the Natural Evening at Mid-night II. Proving That the Jews beginning of the Day at the Sun-set Evening was only in relation to the date of the Person purified from his Levitical uncleanness III. That The Jews themselves did hold That the Natural day did continue after Sun-set till Mid-night Maymony saith Grateful is a Command that is done in the hour of the same so say I grateful is the sanctifying of the Lords Day in the hour of the same In his Treatise of Offering Sacrifice Chap. 4. Sect. 1. Part II. By WILLIAM PYNCHON Esq Published by Authority Printed at London by R. I. and are to be sold by T. N. at the Sign of the three Lions in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1654. Grace and Peace to such as desire to know when the Lords Day doth begin and end To the end they might abstain from their own Worldly imployments in the Lords own Sanctified time THis point is the more difficult to be explaned because I have not met with any beaten road from other Interpreters But I have laboured to make it evident 1 That the Sanctified and separated time of the Lords Day is just according to the Natural day 2 I have laboured to make it evident That the Natural day begins with the Morning 3 That the Natural morning begins at Mid-night 4 That the Natural day and so consequently the Lords Day doth begin with the Natural morning and doth end with the Natural evening at Mid-night And for the want of the knowledge of these things I perceive that many godly persons do the works of their ordinary Callings in some part of the Lords sanctified and separated day as those do that begin and end the Lords Day at the Sun-set Evening and for their better information I forced my self to compose this Treatise I finde that the chief ground of their error do●h arise First from a mistaken interpretation of the first Darknesse to be a full Night of twelve hours and Secondly from a mistaken interpretation of the word Evening because they apprehend it to bee nothing else but a full Night These and sundry such like mistakes I conceive I have cleared I presum'd therefore that this insuing Treatise will be heartily welcome to every tender Conscience that doth truly desire to give unto the Lord his own separated and sanctified time Many godly Christians to my knowledge have been much exercised in their Studies and Meditations to finde out the true limits of the Lords Day that so they might abstain from the works of their particular Calling in every part of that sanctified and separated time from the beginning of the day to the full end thereof For their sakes also and at the special request of some of them I have laboured in this Treatise to prove That all the time of the first Darknesse was comprehended in the word Morning at last and that it took its beginning from the Mid-night at last namely as soon as all the several parts of the Natural day were shaped and set into their order And therefore the beginning of the Morning from the time of Mid-night must not be ascribed to the Romans as the first Authors of it as many unadvisedly do nor yet to any other Nation but it is the most ancient Scripture-Computation from the very first created day and so consequently it must needs be the true beginning of the Jews Sabbath This Tenent may happily seem strange at the first to such as have long held both in their judgement and practise That the Jews Sabbath and so consequently the Lords Day did properly begin at the Sun-set evening and of this judgement and practice are most of the Churches in New England and in that respect many Professors among them do without scruple take liberty in the Sun-set Evening of the Lords Day to do the servile works of their particular Callings and others take liberty to use Recreations But it is worthy to be taken notice of that whole Churches do many times erre both in their judgement and practice or else how could so much Corruption Superstition Idolatry and Prophanenesse creep in to several reformed Churches as there hath done from time to time in sundry ages Being therefore intreated by some godly persons in New England and being also moved thereunto by the fear of God I have taken this difficult Task in hand lest to confute this corrupt judgement and practice it should spread like Leaven to the corrupting of Posterity and so I rest Thine in the Lord WILLIAM PYNCHON The chief Heads of this Treatise OF HOLY TIME CHAP. I. PRoving that the first Darknesse in Gen. 1. 2. was not a compleat Night By three Reasons Page 1 The true Definition of a compleat Night It is the absence of the Suns shining for the space of twelve Hours p. 3 CHAP. II. Proving that Moses by the term Evening in Gen. 1. 5. doth not mean the whole Night but the latter half of the Artificial Day and the first half of the Night p. 6 This Chapter is distributed into four Sections and six Objections are answered SECT 1. The Hebrew word Gnereb translated the Evening in Gen. 1. 5. is explaned in p. 9 1 The first Darknesse cannot be called the Evening in a proper sense p. 10 2 Neither can the whole night be called Gnereb the Evening in a proper sense p. 10 3 Neither can the Twilight be called Gnereb the Evening in a proper sense p. 10. And therefore it is a great mistake in our larger Annotation in Mat. 26. 20. to say that Harab properly signifieth mixed namely the mixture of Light and Darknesse in the Twilight and in that sense mis-applying Deut. 16. 6. which is meant of the time of sacrifising the Passeover and not of the time of feasting Our Ancestors held Gnereb the Evening to be at all times of the yeer an even and equal part of time to Boker the Morning p. 16 Gnereb the Evening is often put by the figure Synecdoche for the later half of the Evening which doth alwayes begin at Sun-set and end at Mid-night p. 16 Gnereb is often put by the figure Metanomia for the West because the later Evening begins at Sun-set which when it is in the Equinoctial doth alwayes set in the West p. 17 Gnereb the Evening is often put by the figure Metanomy for the last dayes and also for the last end of a thing because it is the last half of the natural day p. 17 SECT 2. Gnereb signifies such a connexion of several species as doth ever preserve the said several species distinct and intire without any confused mixture and so Gnarbaiim in the Dual number doth explain it and therefore