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A66482	The Julian and Gregorian year, or, The difference betwixt the old and new-stile shewing, that the reformed churches should not alter their old-stile, but that the Romanists should return to it.	Willes, John, 1646 or 7-1700.	1700 (1700)	Wing W2808; ESTC R8290	14,247	34

THE Julian and Gregorian YEAR Or the Difference Betwixt the Old and New-Stile SHEWING That the Reformed Churches should not Alter their Old-Stile but That the Romanists should Return to It. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conc. Nic. Can. 6. LONDON Printed for RICHARD SARE at Grays-Inn Gate Holborne 1700. TO THE READER THÉ Old and New-Stile having been of late the Subject of many Debates occasion'd chiefly by the near approach of next February when instead of Ten there will be Eleven Days difference betwixt them and thereby the Julian and Gregorian Accounts set at greater odds than ever and finding this Controversy not generally understood I thought I could not at present do a more acceptable piece of Service to the Publick than put this matter into as clear a Light as I could and shew with as much brevity as possible not only the Vnreasonableness of the Romanists pressing of the Reformed Churches to comply with them in the Gregorian Account but also endeavour to perswade them to put an End to the Difference by returning to the Obedience of the first General Council at Nice and an Union with the Universal Church The Church of Rome for above One Thousand Years were in this matter conformable to the rest of the Christian World and the Popes at their Inauguration were sworn to continue it Viz. Se quatuor prima Concilia servaturos usque ad unum Apicem i. e. That they would critically observe the first four General Councils to the least tittle Can. Sanct. Dist 16. and how the late Pope Gregory XIII dispensed with himself in this matter I know not but I am sure that his famous Predecessor of that Name Pope Gregory the Great declared his esteem of the Four first General Councils to be equall to that he had of the Four Gospels So that Popes are divided in their Judgments as well as other Christians and whereas but an Age or two past the Romanists press'd the Protestants with the Authority of Councils which they pretended to be on their side they have now publickly rejected the Determination of the most famous Christian Council in the World since that of the Apostles and the design of this Paper is to press them to the Obedience of it and to return to the Communion of Saints and no longer continue in a Schism and Separation from all the Christian Churches in the World ERRATA PAge 2. l. 27. add two p. 4. l. 27. add on or p. 13. l. 1. for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 20. l. 22. the and that transpros'd Of the Julian Year the Time of the Jewish Passover and the Decrees of the Christian Church for finding of EASTER WHEN J. Caesar had Conquered Egypt where all sorts of Learning and especially Astronomy had long Flourish'd he brought with him thence a more Exact Account of a Solary Year than any that had been before used among the Romans and though this New Calendar was drawn up by Sosigenes and other great Astronomers yet being Publish'd by Julius Caesar's Authority was call'd the Julian Year But the Romish Priests having been long used to another sort of Year mistook the Rules and instead of every Fourth they reckon'd Inclusively and Intercalated a Day every Third Year which being observed by Augustus and Restor'd to what Julius had at first Establish'd was still call'd the Julian Year and made Authentick in all the Roman Empire THE Julian Year consisted of 365 Dayes and 6 Hours but because of the Inconvenience of Inserting of Six Hours at the end of every Year they were order'd to be reserv'd to the end of 4 Years when they came to a Whole Day and then to be Inserted at the 24th Day of February For the Old Roman Year ended at Feb. 23 on which was observed the Feast of Terminus and the Old Intercalary Month was always inserted at that time And because the Intercalary-dayes according to the Method of the Egyptians were never accounted any part of Month or Year but only an Appendix to them and Cato in Tit. Dig. ss 98. expresly saith of the Practice of the Romans Mensem intercalarem additicium esse omnesque ejus dies pro momento temporis observandos i. e. That the Intercalary Month was no part of the Year and though it consisted of 28 days was esteemed but one moment of Time Therefore the Romans in the Julian Year accounted the 24th day of February that is the 6th of the Calends of March two days together which is the reason that in our Calendar Leap-year is call'd Bissextile or the Year in which the 6th of the Calends of March came twice over or was continued for Two days together We in England having been very antiently Subjects of the Roman Empire received the Julian Account and pursuant to the Method of the Romans our Parliament in the 21st Year of Henry the 3d pass'd an Act That in every Leap-year those dayes at the 24th of February should be accounted but for one Now because in the Western Church the Feast of Matthias hath been very Antiently kept on the 24th day of February and there might a doubt arise about the true Day of this Feast in Leap-Year the Rule that had been observed in that Matter was to keep it on the Second of those Two Days in Leap-Year according to the Old Verse Posteriore die Festum Celebrato Mathiae AND on the Second Day we also kept it in England till a few years since it was altered by an Injunction of a Late Arch-Bishop who thought it not so Agreeable to the last Act of Vniformity JVLIVS CAESAR in his Calendar placed the Vernal Equinox on the 25th day of March and presuming that his measure of a Solary Year was exactly true he had no foresight of the Precession of the Equinoxes in the Julian Months and gave no other Direction but that the said Equinox should be continued on the 25th Day of March for ever THE Jewish Passover was by the Law of Moses to be kept on the 14th Day of the First Month Exod. 12th and Levit. 23 c. And on the 16th day of the same Month they were to offer up the First-Fruits of their Corn upon which account this First Month was call'd Abib that is a Ripe Ear of Corn and so their Passover was alwayes in that Month in which their Corn began to be Ripe And because their Corn in Canaan usually began to be Ripe about the Vernal Equinox as appears from Philo Josephus and others therefore the Jewish Passover was at that time of the Year and usually answer'd to our March or April THAT the Jews Antiently used Lunary Months appears beyond Exception in this Law of the Passover which being on the 14th day of the Month was always at the Full-Moon and therefore the Jews to make their Lunary Months Conformable to a Solary Year were forced in every Two or Three Years to Intercalate a Month and have 13 Months in their Year And when