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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

that was to be done they seem antiently to have had no other Rule but when their Corn was Ripe and though that might not be so certain a Guide for the True Measure of a particular Year yet in Ten thousand Years would never err much but was as fixed and certain as their Seasons and Harvests BUT after the Jews had been Conquei'd by the Babylonians Persians and Greeks and carry'd Captives into all Nations they saw the different Seasons of Harvests in the several Climates and so in order to an Uniformity were forced to establish their Year upon Astronomical Rules and Reduce it into Tables that so the Jews in their Disperson all the World over might be Vnited in their Feasts and keep their Passover as they now do at the same time ONE Principal thing agreed on was the Dependance of their First Month upon the Vernal Equinox or the Suns entrance into Aries and particularly that the 15th Day of that Month should be always after it and When that was the Jews in the Time of Our Saviour seem to have taken from J. Caesar's Calendar For that Emperour and his Successor Augustus were very kind to the Jews indulged them the use of their own Law excused them from Tribute every Seventh Year and sent Sacrifices to Jerusalem for the Daily Oblation For which Reasons the Jews were extreamly Fond of them and as even Suetonius Relates Lamented many Days and Nights together at the Funeral of the former This was it that made them so readily comply with the New Calendar of Julius Caesar as far as their Law would give leave and at least take the time of the Vernal Equinox and Suns entrance into Aries from thence the first of which was there fix'd at March the 25th the other at the 18th Day of the same Month. And whatever Rules of this nature were once agreed on by the Sanhedrim or Chief Council at Jerusalem they took care to Communicate to the Jews all the World over NOW its evident from the Gospels that Our Saviour was Crucified on Friday at the Jewish Passover and Rose again from the Dead on the Sunday following being at that time call'd The first day of the Week Mat. 28. 1. Mark 16. 1 2 c. And when the Christians thought it necessary to keep up the Memory of so great a Deliverance by a Solemn Festival they call'd theirs also the Passover and had no other Rules for the finding of it but what the Jews had for theirs and left the Calculation of it to them For most of the First Christians were Converts from Judaism and Zealous for the Rites of the Law of Moses Acts 21. 20. and one Philip giving an Account of a Paschal Synod in the Second Century begins his Epistle with this Observation That the Apostles being wholly taken up with Preaching of the Gospel to the several Nations of the World did not establish any Rules among Christians for the exact time of Easter And Epiphanius farther relates That there was an old Apostolick Constitution by which the Christians were forbidden to trouble themselves with scrupulous Calculations but keep it at the same time as the Christians of Jerusalem who being Converts from the Jews understood the Methods and Rules that were used by them for the discovery of the Passover Now all the Bishops of Jerusalem till Adrian destroy'd it were originally Jews as is observed by Eusebius and so long the Christian World received the time of Easter thence but after Jerusalem had been quite Ruin'd by the Emperour and there were no more Bishops there of the Circumcision every Church began to have Rules of their own and the Christian World was divided about their Feast of Love and though many SYNODS were Assembled to determine this Matter by Pope Victor at Rome Theophilus at Cesarea and other Bishops in other Churches yet still the Dissension continued and Disputes increased till at last A. D. 325 they were happily ended by Constantine the Great in the First General Council at Nice Rules establish'd and Tables drawn up for the exact discovery of the Time of EASTER for ever THAT the Christians even from the Beginning did observe this Feast is evident from St. Paul 1 Cor. 5. 7 8. Christ our Passover is Sacrificed for us therefore let us keep the Feast not with old Leven neither with the Leaven of Malice and Wickedness but with the Vnleavened Bread of Sincerity and Truth And Origen an early Christian Writer in his Comments on St. John's Gospel Explains those words Now the Passover a Feast of the Jews was at hand to have been used by the Evangelist to distinguish that from the Christian Passover which was then observed THE greatest part of the Christian World since the First Council of Nice have conform'd themselves to the Paschal Rules that were there establish'd and the whole Western Church at the time of our Reformation from the Church of Rome knew of no other As in other things so in this also it was the Method of our Reformation to depart no farther from the Church of Rome than she had from the Truth see Can. 30. publish'd A. D. 1603. and in keeping of Easter conform'd her self to the same time that was then observed in Italy France Spain Germany and most other Churches of the Christian World and all this in Obedience and Conformity to the Decrees of the First General Council And to prevent all difference upon this Subject our Church hath in her very Liturgy Establish'd by Act of Parliament not only from that Council at Nice inserted this General Rule That Easter-Day is allways the First Sunday after the First Full Moon which happens next after the 21st day of March and if the Full Moon happen upon a Sunday Easter-Day is the Sunday after But also lest any difference should arise about the New-Moons hath in the First Column of the Calendar put down all the New-Moons for a Complete Cycle of 19 Years with Direction to take the Paschal New-Moons from that TABLE for ever and all this according to the Decrees of the First Council at Nice and Practise of the Vniversal Church AND though the Vernal Equinox since the time of that Council be gotten from the 21st to the 10th of March and this TABLE of New-Moons is now above Four Dayes false yet in things undetermin'd by God's Law we have alwayes Preferr'd Peace and Unity and the Communion of Saints before a Needless Separation and Division IT was once the Objection of Mr. Baxter and his Party That our Church did not keep Easter according to our own Rules and that some Years our Easter was not the First Sunday after the First Full Moon that was after the 21th Day of March But had that Scrupulous Person understood the Cycle of New Moons inserted in the First Column of our Calendar and that the Paschal Moon is to be taken thence he would have seen his Mistake and been ashamed of the Objection NOW because the Nicene Council