An Advertifement to the Reader. ing handled this Head of Fedivals before tahat; whichAlteration ofhis haft-defiened Method, and thus tranfpofang thefe two Heads of the Le- val''Miniftry, and the Legal Feftivalè, isby himfelf accounted for in the Entrance on that-of the Legal. Miniftry ; and thereforeno more frail be Paidofit. The Reader will alto doubtlefs obferve, his Entrance on this Subject of the Legal Feftivalï to lie more abrupt then in the ref ; of which this .Account may be given,, That on this Head the Author's Notes which he left behind him were lefs perfea`then on any of-theforegoing : And thence, as it coif more Labour to bringthem to what is here prefented : So the. Yudicious Reader will perhaps.. difcern a difference between his Difcourfes on this and on the other Heads, as not being fpun with an even Thred. And we have therefore been neceffitated toufe "a greater Liberty here, then we allowed our felves elfewbere, to infert in their properef Places, as near as we could, fundry Notions which we found no- ted burn in the Author's broken Papers relating to this Subjeí't, force whereofperhaps were not his own, yea, it may be not according to his Yttddment, (though we do not know ofanyfuch inferted )° but only noted down by hint as they came into his Mind, or as he met with them in Reading, tobe better c,onfidered of at further Leifure: For it is certain it was his manner thui to da. Moreover,, we do find many imperfect Hints ofNotions amongft his Papers, which we could not find where to infers, nor indeed, as tofame of them, well tell what to make of them,.. er how to exprefs them as the Author defigned; and therefore they are loft with him._ Laftly, We may advertife the Reader, that we find the ,Acithor had thoughts of re-affirming and going over this whole Head of the Legal Feftivals again, infomewhat another Method, the firft rude Lineaments whereofwere thus-drawn by. himfelf, viz. he dèfignedfiyft a brief Deli- neation of the whole, and when inftituted; namely, their Feafis, .(towit,.. the Paffover, Pentecoft, the-Feaft of Tabernacles, the Feaf.=af Lrumpets, and the great Day of Expiation) their NewMoons, and their - Sabbaths' to wit, the feventh Day of the Week, the feventb Tear, and thefiftieth Tear.. Next' he defigned.to go over them all again, and Phew" how they made up a rude Drought, or a. dark Shadow ofbetter Things ;send here. he mould have made the firft Inítitution, to. be bis Text for the feve- ral Heads ; andfor the Sabbath she 12. 1 3, I41, 15. Verfes of thefifth.. of Deuteronomy, bocaufe the Typical Reafon is 'there annexed to the Command. And in the daft Place he intended to have fpoken more fully to ,the unwarrantablenefsofPopifh Holy-days, and Mufick> 413 And
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