in the afternoon and that when they rowed out they should sing the Psalm My Shepherd is the living Lord c. and as the Lad going about to wake his Stepfather that lay in the bed with him he departed as before going out through the Roof-hole The next night Jan. 28 th he appeared unto him the fourth time as he was awake as before the young man asked him then who he was He answered that he was Saint John that lay in the bosom of Jesus at the Lords Supper and spake no more but vanished away as formerly He came to him the fifth time in the night presently after the Parish-Priest Mr. Peter Hellison Wiberg was gone to visit his Congregation and asked the Lad if he had declared to the Priest what he had commanded him the young man answered yes adding thereunto that the Priest found very strange that he should appear unto him who was so great a sinner Whereunto the pretended Saint John answered that the Lord had given many signes and giveth yet many signes that are not manifest These apparitions became publike in the Country and many of the simple hearers did put great faith therein Whereupon I did send for the said person examined him and earnestly admonished him that he should not have any thing to do with any such invented figments but the young man persisted in the same affirmation that the said matter was past in the foresaid manner wherefore I have written the matter of fact word by word as he told me But the fire being once kindled would not go out of its self but kindled it self further round about for his fame was spread over all the Islands and in all Congregations the common people giving great credit thereunto specially servants for holydays sake and begun in many places to keep Saturday holy believing really that it was just the person to whom this vision did appear being esteemed by all to be very Godly so that one had never heard a vain word or oath from his mouth Wherefore many observed dilligently their new holyday but they could not desist from cursing swearing besids this they invented themselves many other visions and spread them over the Country the people being much enclined thereunto yea these superstitious people out of their own foolish imagination framed themselves many arguments giving out that as God had illuminated some poor fishers he could also illuminate this simple man that God would make Apostles of Angels and spirits to preach unto men That the Devil cannot take the shape of an Angel can do no good and cannot speak a true or good word concluding thereby that the sanctification of the Saturday was commanded by God and pleasant unto him as a pious action in it self and therefore ought to be observed for the world coming near to its end which the Lord will shorten so ought the last day of the weeks work to be shortened and the day sanctified betimes Whereupon some did rise up against their teachers as it happened unto me by one of my Congregation who stood fast thereupon that to pray and keep holy was a good act and no sin and therefore none could blame or forbid it Thus the common people is easily deceived and deceiveth others Satan having thus suddenly seduced many simple persons from the true Prophetical word and their plainness in Christ I sent to every Priest in the Country a copy of the parties confession about his Visions and therewith added my censure thereof that they might read it in the Pulpit and the hearers know how much thereof babling people had invented and added to these visions and illusions of the Devil and they at the same time teach and mildly admonish their hearers that they should persist in the constant word of God and not seek another way of worshipping him then is contained therein or is injoyned by the Supream Magistrate to his honor how seeming holy soever it might be Having also in the explication of the Catechisme in my visitation according to the spirit and grace which God hath given me done my best to bring them out of that superstition and cunning error At last it happened that the said as was thought Godly person the following year by the induction of that unclean spirit fell into the sin of Fornication wherefore I did in writing refer the great scandal and disturbance he gave in the Congregations to the most Reverend Father in God Dr. John Swanning Archbishop of Zealand from whom I received orders according to the Kings Ordinance that I should publickly admonish the said Jacob Oleson out of the word of God as alâ—o absolve him of his sin and represent to the Inhabitants their great errour in the Church of Thors-haven when the Sessions should be kept and most of the people be present which was done accordingly in the year 1668 on Sâ— Iohn the Baptist day whereby God be praised all this emotion was supprest so that nothing at all hath since been perceived of it That the Canded Reader may not yet frame himself strange imaginations or be so credulous as to believe any such illusions figments and cunning deceptions if Satan either here or elsewhere in the like or other manner practise any this example not being the first nor the last it being more difficult to be aware of the white devil then of the black I have thought fit to add hereunto a plain explication that one may the better know Satan though he change himself in the holyest and most beautiful Angel of Light It is no strange thing that such deceitful apparitions should happen to bring a man into superstition specially in this Country since the Prophecy of Christ must also be fulfill'd here amongst us saying Mat. 24 9 that in the later times there shall arise many false Christs and say here is Christ and there c. so that even the â—lect should be in danger of being seduc'd wherefore he also giveth a very earnest admonition thereupon saying do not go out to them and believe them not God permits such things to prove men and try whether they love him out of all their hearts and souls Deut 1â—â—3 But that none may suffer himself to be seduc'd by every bubble of temptation we will consider and ponderate all h â— circumstances of this deceitful vision As for the person that appeared in a white shining Garment and afterwards 〈◊〉 the Habit of a Priest and spoke pious words and admonitions we know that Satan can change himself into an Angel of light 2 Cor. Chap. 11. ver 14. yet the Divel cannot so disguise himself as to hide his Claws which is here perfectly seen by his giving himself out for Saint John that lay on the bosom of Christ at the Lords Supper and besides would teach men a particular Holiday and thereby draw them from the pure revealed word from which no body might swerve-either to the right hand or to the left from which one must neither take
that hath also a felling Club to strike with when the Seals lying on dry ground begin to see the Light and men they will flee to Sea wherefore the old ones rise themselves on their paws with their Jaws open directly against the man specially if it be a He for then he will not flee from the man but the man must avoid him and when he strikes at him he meeteth the blow with his jaws snatching the Club from the mans hands and casting it on that side where there is no body Then comes the other man with his Club and strikes him over the neck but if it be a Shee she is not so fierce and fleeth from the man if she can When they hit them right over the head they fall down in a sound and then the men are presently ready so cut their throats When they have done so with all the old they come to the young ones that lye all still far from the water and never take notice of men nor light till they come and kill them when the slaughter is finish'd they hale the dead Kobs to the Water side and tye them fast to the Rope wherewith those in the Boat without pull them to them Last of all the men get out with the Boat that is within but if the waves be great the said Boat and men are also haled out In this manner they get sometimes many Seals often half a hundred in one Cave the old Kobs are as big as an Ox or Cow and so fat that one can get three Loads of Fat from them they use their skins for Shooes and eat the flesh of them they melt the Fat into Train Oyle and salt a part thereof to eat There are found several sorts of Whales under this Land amongst which there cometh one sort called Grind-Whale Grind according to the explication of Mr. Peter Clauson signifieth all sort of grates or Trellices either of Iron or Wood and because this sort of Whale swimmeth side to side by one another when they go on coupling such a Flock of Whales is called a Whales Grind. These Grind-Whales are not great the biggest being but five ells long and the young ones an ell and a half they come in great Flocks under the Land when it is dark or foggy weather so that they cannot see it which is therefore called Grind-weather When the Inhabitants are out about their Fishing and see a Flock of Whales those that see them first call and make signs to the other Boats that are about them who leaving their fishing come presently together and go to the Whales to drive them in towards the Land but when the Whales will turn back towards the Sea they cry out and make the most noise they can in the Boat throwing stones and what else they can find at them till the Whales turn again and then when God giveth his blessing they can drive them where they please as if it were a Flock of Sheep or Cattle When they come to Land they send a man or two to give notice every where and this messenger must go speedily day and night and is called Grind-message Those then that get notice of it presently kindle a brand on a certain place that they on the next Island where the message is not come may get timely notice of it who can know by the place whence the Fire or Smoak ariseth what it signifieth whereupon there cometh speedily a great number of Folks together some by Land and some by Water having their Whale Spears with them When they have then brought as many Boats together as they think needful they drive the Whales into an Inlet or Creek where they know there are good Whale-banks and flat sandy grounds whereon they drive the Whales with great crying noise and casting of Stones driving them as fast as they can upon the Sands then if it be necessary the Boats divide themselves into two companies the one lying below in the form of a half Moon to meet the Whale if it wou d flee away during the slaughter the other advancing into the midst of the Whale Flock thrusting their Whale Spears into their bodies in the mean time some of the people lye in an ambush on the Land till the Whales are come on ground and wade to them as deep as they can and then kill them chiefly with their Weapons with such fury on both sides that the water becometh as red as blood whereby the Whale is also blinded so that it cannot see to run away it is a strange thing to see that these strong creatures make no resistance but only plunge as well as they can before the boats and people till death cometh upon them and then they strike terribly about with their Tayles so that they beat sometimes the boats to pieces and the men come in danger if they do not know how to have a care of them Some of them get again loose from the Sands and carry sometimes the boats a great way with them on their backs over-turning them here and there and striking them full of water yet those that are below drive them in again but if they are not able to force them thereunto the rest come to their help so make them return though it happeneth also sometimes that they will at last suffer themselves to be driven in no more plunging and diving so much and a long way under the water that they must let them go the same happeneth also at Sea when they see them first and will drive them to Land for then they plunge sometimes so much that they must give them over whence one may conclude that this work doth only consist in a blessing of God When they have killed as many as they can get which lasteth well a whole day or longer they hale them on Land and those that are killed at Sea float up the next day and are also driven thither When all the Whales are thus brought on dry ground and are toll'd first the Tithes are taken of them then the Finding-Whale for him that saw them first the rest being divided into two parts the one whereof belongs to the people that took them and the other part to the owner of the Land under which they are taken whether it be the Kings some Noblemans or belongs to some Free-holders son sometimes the whole Flock of Whales cometh into the Inlets of it self in foggy weather no body driving them sometimes they come in with the Tide in a dark night running on the Sands where they lye dry when it is low water so that when folks come out in the morning they see sometimes the Sand covered with dead Whales which happened also for few years since in Tiorneviig In antient time there came greater multitudes of Whales and oftner then in our days though it happened that in the year 1664 there were taken in two places about a thousand Wherefore the Lord as also for his other benefits be
King Sigurt the Hierosolomites Brother being then but 5 year old went over with his Mother Gonild and his Father in Law Vnas to Bishop Roar in Feroe who was his Father in Laws Brother and stayed there till he should be ordained Priest But hearing then of his Mother that he was the â—on of King Sigurd Haroldson he said he would not change the Kingdom of Norway for a Priests living in Feroe and therewith threw aside his Gown and went to Norway to take in the Hereditary Kingdome of his Fore-fathers After this King Suerre a man of Feroe called Erling raised up himself giving out that he was this King Suerre's Son and went to Norway on the Ship of Hiner a districts man whereof see further the Chron. of Norway in the 589 page From which example it appeareth plainly that not only Bishops but also districts men that should take care of the Kings affairs and gather his contributions were constituted in Feroe by the Kings of Norway and therefore Feroe hath since that time been subject to the Kings of Norway with contributions and all other duties but it cannot be known in what year this begun neither is it much worth enquiring after For as this Bishop Roar is not found in the description of Norway amongst the Bishops of Feroe in the Catalogue and the Historian hath neither mentioned that this Bishop was the first nor when or by whom he was established so the Author hath neither cared for when Feroe was laid under the Crown of Norway as a thing which did not properly belong to the scope of his Treatise Feroe having ever since the time mentioned been a Province subject to the Kingdom of Norway it hath not only happened that the principal men thereof as Members of that Kingdom have been made use of in businesses of great importance as we read in the Chronicle of Norway pag 635. that in King Hagen Hagensens time who was King Suerres Grandchild Swerke Bishop of Feroe was with others in the Assembly of the States in the year of Christ 1223. when King Hagen Hagenson was by all the States sworn and judged to be the true Heir of the Kingdom of Norway but they have also as faithful subjects received Justice from the Kings of Norway in doubtful causes as appeareth by a particular Law called Soide-Breffvet or an ordinance about Sheep declaring how one must deal therewith that the one may not wrong the other There is a great errour in the date thereof mentioning it to be given at Opsloâ— in the year of Christ 1040. which time is but a short while after Charles the Tender was kill'd in Feroe whereas it hath been proved that Feroe was not then under the Kings of Norway And this error is not only proved hereby but also by these arguments First it is mentioned in the Sheep Ordinance that it was Hagen Duke of Norway King Magnus the Crowned Son that gave it out and there is found no King Magnas before then till the time of King Magnus Oluffson The first King Magnus that was Crowned was King Magnus Erlingson who reigned in the year of Christ 1164. and had one Son called Hagen neither did any of his Children rule in Norway being himself kill'd by Suerre and all his Progeny driven out and destroyed Secondly there is named in the Sheep-Ordinance Bishop Erlander who in the Catalogue of the Bishops of Feroe is the third after Suerquire of whom is said above that he was in the year 1223. in the general Assembly of the States whence it plainly appeareth that there is a great errour in the time it was given out But that we may come to some certainty about the date of this Sheep-Ordinance we find in History that King Magnus Hagenson Lagebetter who Reigned over Norway in the year 1263. had two Sons Erick and Hagen Erick became King after his Father and was called Erick Priesthater who reigned 19 years and died in the year 1299. In this King Ericks 19 years reign his Brother Hagen was as a Duke in Norway though History doth not speak plainly of it yet it can be easily concluded by the circumstances for antiently since the time of Harolds Pulchricomus the Kings of Norway's Sons were called Graves or Earls but Hagen Hagenson the Father of King Magnus the Crowned brought first the Title of Duke over into Norway making his Queen's Father who was before an Earl or Count to be a Duke After which the Title of Duke was ever given to the Kings Sons whence it appeareth that this Sheep Ordinance was given out in the 19 year of that Duke when his Brother Erick dyed and he became King that is in the year 1299. The circumstances of History does much confirm this opinion in other manner for as Duke Hagen calls himself for Honors sake the son of King Magnus the Crowned so there are none of the former Kings so remarkable by their Coronation as this King Magnus who was Crowned during his Fathers Life without any contradiction but rather with the desire of all which never happened before for which reason it may be he was called King Magnus the Crowned This King Magnus bettered the Law wherefore he was called Law-betterer He writ also a particular law for those of Island as also the Ordinance of Christianity which was sent over to those of Feroe whereupon it seems they found something to complain of as appeareth by the Proeme to the Sheep-Ordinance of which it seems those of Feroe took then occasion to desire of his Son that particular ordinance concerning Sheep much misdemeanour being used therein which had in that long space crept amongst the commonalty of which law we will further speak in the sixth Chapter when we treat of their Policy This ordinance concerning Sheep was confirmed by Christian the IV. King of Denmark of happy Memory and Printed upon the humble desires of the Inhabitants of Feroe though this fault was left uncorrected but this must be imputed to the simple negligence of the Inhabitants who have had a Copy of that Law kept by them during so long time the original having been robb'd away As they have received Laws and particular ordinances from the Kings of Norway so they have from time to time sworn Allegiance to the said Kings for one readeth in the Chronicle of Norway pag. 707. that in the year of Christ 1240. the Inhabitants of Norway Orkeny Hetland Feroe and Island swore Allegiance and Fidelity to young King Hagen Hagenson which custome may well have been followed as well in regard of the succeeding Kings of Norway as of those of Denmark though nothing of it be noted in the Annals The same duty being also performed in our days for in the year 1649. the high and mighty Prince Frederick the Third King of Denmark Norway of the Gothes and Vandalis now Deceased sent to Island and Feroe the Right Honourable Lord Henry Bialk Lord of Elling-Guard Knight Governour of Island his Majesties Rix
their Souls be bound in the bundle of the living and be their precious reward in the Resurrection of the Just Secondly our most Gracious Sovereign now reigning King Christian the Fifth who not only lets us enjoy the same free houses but also out of his innate mildness hath proffered us other favourable Graces The great King of Heaven give peace unto him with a long peaceable and happy reign the Lord give him victory over his enemies and cover him under the shadow of his wings let no evil come near his domicil let his holy Angels ever pitch their tents about him whithersoever he goeth satiate him Lord with a long life and let him ever see thy salvation And although the Parishioners which yet ought not to be govern themselves according to the antient Ordinance of Christianity and do not after the Church-ordinance of Denmark after the three great Holy-days of the year except in Thors-haven which I cannot here omit but will record to the eternal praise of my Parishioners who for some years ago in the time of my Predecessor without being required have willingly begun to offer on the said three principal Holy-days of the year which they have not only continued in my time but also augmented it both those able strangers that reside here as also the poor native Parishioners God grant them and all pious Hearers that they may offer unto God their hearts as a living holy and pleasant sacrifice the Lord receive their prayers as a perfume and the lifting up of their hands as an evening offering I say although they offer not we seek not our right or power therein but rather according to the Example of St. Paul maintain our selves by our own tillage of what his Majesty hath granted us that we may not seem to seek more the Corinthians means than the Corinthians But there being but little wool in the South Inlets in the Corporations of Sandoe and Suderoe and no Tythes thereof being paid the Priests cannot maintain themselves with their calling alone though they as well as others have a Tenement of augmentation except fishing be more abundant As the Christian Magistrate hath provided for the office of Priesthood here so God hath furnished these remote Islands with able Preachers who teach the pure word of God according to the true Confession of Ausbourgh and though they cannot as in other places constantly visite their Congregations they perform nevertheless the service of God every Sunday and day of Prayer in the principal Parish In the mean time they oblige their hearers to have their meetings in houses on Holydays and to read an Homily and sing Psalms to the Praise of God obliging also Parents to instruct their Children since one cannot inform them every Sunday which if they are not able to doe they are admonished to appoint one in every Parish that readeth best to teach them for a reasonable sallary and besides the Provosts General examining in his Visitation every one heareth his own according as time and opportunity will permit They do not only observe all Saboths Holydays and new Moons Prayer days as in other places but also twice a year three certain general days of Prayer namely 3 days in the Week of the Ascension of Christ from the Sunday to the Ascention and 3 days in Michaelmas week The 3 days in the week of the Ascention were established 469 years after the birth of Christ by Manertus Claudius Bishop of Vienne in France by reason that during his time in the Bishoprick there happened not only a great deal of terrible Thunder and Lightning with fearful Earth-quakes but Wolves also did run about and not only tore Cattle to pieces in the Field but ran into Towns and did the like with men Wherefore to appease Gods anger he ordained these three Prayer days to be kept in all his Bishoprick which Godly Ordinance the other Christians elsewhere took up of themselves whereof read Mantuanus lib. 4. Fastorum And they were afterwards confirmed and ordered to be kept through all Christendome by Pope Leo the III. in the time of the Emperour Charlemain in the year 816. The 3 Prayer days about Michaelmas are also established by the Popes of Rome who have yet ordered more Litanies but by which of them it was done I could not perceive by their acts Religion being resormed in Feroe the Teachers and Hearers have out of Godly intention kept these 2 sorts of days of Prayer doubtless to the end that in the Spring they might pray to God for his blessings upon the Land with good Fishing increase of Corn and augmentation of Cattel and in the Autumn thank God for his blessings and benefits which custome being pious it is continued to this day The Lord accept of all to the Glory of his Name Of the Hearers THough the Popish Doctrine be much mix'd with humane Superstition and Figments whereby the pure word of God hath been much obscur'd and the simple not able to understand the true ground of their Salvation which doth consist in Christ alone and thereby did put their trust and hope in their own and dead Saints good works nevertheless I find that merciful God hâ—th preserved this poor people in the midst of Popish darkness with the true knowledge of their Salvation though some part may have been spoil'd with old errors and Superstitious Injunctions as the remâ—anâ—s thereof do witness in some But that they have kept the right ground of their Salvation by an uncorrupted Faith in Jesus Christ sheweth a very antient Spiritual Psalm which they in their antient language call Kiomer wherein are contained the four States of Mankind namely their Perfection Corruption Regeneration and perfect Redemption to eternal Life Wherein is also comprehended the Birth Passion and Death of Christ It seems to have been made in Island there being many words of that Language in it Loimer is as much in Danish as Light or Splendour for the Suns beams are yet called in the language of Feroe the Liom of the Sun Wherefore the word of God being compared in the Scripture to a light splendour or shining they have called the said Psalm Liomer as the best splendour and light of Gods word they had I have enquired after it but what I could gather thereof is very imperfect This I must blame in our people of Feroe that almost all of them know the most part of the old Gyants Ballads not only those that are Printed in the Danish Book of Ballads but also many more of the Champions of Norway that may be are forgotten elsewhere here in fresh Memory being usually Sung in their Dances But they have so absolutely forgotten that gracious and useful Song of the true Champion of Israel Jesus Christ that I could not amongst many of them find one person that knew it wholly If our Countrymen of Feroe had as carefully preserved it as they have kept their Gyants Ballads they had not been much to blame for the last
which are not seen nor can be seen It is a poor conclusion in reason that because one hath not seen a thing therefore it is not extant in nature every one hath a reasonable Soul in himself which is an immortal living Spirit and yet none could yet see it forsaking its habitation and the parting from the body The Angels pitch their Tents about the Godly yet who ever saw them none can ever see God and live afterwards in this mortal body is there therefore no Soul Angel nor God existing As long as we are in this mortal body we can naturally see none but corporeal creatures and yet our eyes are so weak that they cannot discern many things but by the help of an instrument invented for that purpose Nevertheless there are men that have seen such spirits as is shewed by the aforementioned Examples and other Histories but then those spirits had taken upon them some visible shape The Specters above-said are as well spirits as the Angels all being invisible to our eyes nevertheless we read in the Holy Scripture that many have seen them specially the good Angels in such an external figure as the business about which they were sent did require for the Ass of Balaam saw the Angel of the Lord with a drawn sword in his hand which Balaam could not see till the Lord opened his eye Saul saw a figure in the likeness of Samuel Elisha saw a whole Army about him upon the mountain in the likeness of flaming waggons and Horses which his servant Gehazi could neither see until his eyes were opened King Belfhazar saw a hand before him writing apon the wall to pass by the examples of the Maccabees That tempter the Divel went openly to Christ in an outward shape and may be in that of a man since he spoke as one By which Examples this matter is clearly proved by having been seen and therefore he that will not believe the aforesaid Examples happened in Feroe because he hath not seen such Apparititions though the said Examples be as certain as if they had been sworn before a Court of Justice and therefore will be irrefragable as long as the world lasts no body being though bound to believe more thereof than pleaseth him yet he must believe those examples that are in the holy Scriptures except he will of his own accord precipitate himself into errour Saâ—an hath also endeavoured by special visions and learning to seduce the Inhabitants of these Islands from the true word of God For it happened in this Country in the year 1667 that a person called Jacob Oluffson being then at Giow in Osteroe in the 24 year of his age the 17 of Jan. fell into a sickness lying a bed during a fortnight and on the 14 day of his disease namely the 20 of Jan. on Sunday night as he lay asleep there came one in to him with shining cloaths on whereat he wakened and perceived him in that figure in the bed by him the room appearing full of splendour and he gave the young man a serious salutation and respect Secondly he asked him where his pain was whereunto the young man answered nothing afterwards he stroaked him with his hand along his breast and round about whereby the said young man was presently healed and he enjoyn'd him then that he should say a prayer thrice every day pronouncing the prayer 3 times unto him whereby the young man learned it instantly it being as followeth O Thou worthy Holy Ghost comforter of all sorrowful and afflicted thou knowest best what cur flesh and blood can suffer in the cross where it goeth but sadly with us except we receive help from another place then from our selves be thou therefore my comforter and my Shield strengthen me by thy power help me in my great infirmity and assist me chear up my heart and mind that I may call and cry unto thee for help in my necessity strengthen my faith that I with a firm expectation and assurance may expect help and counsel from above give me grace that I may suffer with patience thy fatherly rod and do not with murmuring and impatience offend thee Since we know not in our â—â—ess what we should pray for and desire do thou the best and pray in us Thou who with the Father and the Son art an Almighty God to all eternity Amen Afterwards he told the young man that he should say this Prayer the first time he should come to Church first on the threshold of the Church door kneeling down with his face turned from the Church commanding also that the people of the Country should pray unto God saying this Prayer with joyned hands and bowed knees to the Lord thrice every day so the Lord would turn away the punishment which threatned the Land and commanded that he should admonâ—sh the people to convert themselves leave off their cursing and swearing and desist from all other sins and that so God would appease his anger Having said that to the Lad as he would go away he added Rise sound and sin no more Departing so from him and going away through the Roof-hole Five days afterwards he appeared the second time to the young man before it was clear day as the Lad was sitting in his bed and sung the Psalm My Shepherd is the living Lord c. it came in his mind as if one had desired him to go out though he saw nothing whereupon he arose and put on his clothes and went out before the house where he saw in the South South-west the Heavens open and one coming down from thence who stood by him in the yard with a Priests habit on that reached down to his feet the habit being red and white with a red Cross on the back and he said to him that he should not at all doubt but he came from God and therewith left him hastily ascending to the place from whence he came The next Sunday night which was the seven and twentieth of January he came to him the third time as he lay awake in the same form as the first time through the Roof hole into the bed and asked him if he had spread abroad what he had commanded him whereunto the youngman answered yes Whereunto the other replied not so earnestly as it ought to have been done asking him withal whether he had not seen some signes in the Heavens the Lad answered that he had seen no signes but that other folks said they had seen two Suns in the Heavens Samuel Powelson Eclendar Anderson Sineve Jonas daughter and some more of Eldevyg witnessed in the Court they had seen these Suns then he said that they did look as if they had been Suns though they were not but a signe that they should begin to keep Holy-day from the time they saw the true Sun arise which was on Saturday at half an hour past 12 in the afternoon and that Sermon which they preached ou Sunday should be preached on Saturday