436 The Go,fpel of the Feat of Trumpets. Time it felf; for he Suffered at the Pal -over. The Pentecoft pointed at the Time of the Effi-fton of the Holy Ghoft after Chrift's Afcenfion. The Feaft of Tabernacles pointed them to the Birth and Nativity of y'efus Chrift, when he fhould come to Tabernacle and pitch his Tent in our Nature. We heard that this was indeed the Time of Chrift's Birth, and not as it is commonly computed to be in December, in the depth of Win- ter. It is not like the Shepherds would be watching their Flocks all Night then, and that Auguftus would command his Subjects to travel to their own Cities to be taxed at fuck a Time, and that "John would choofe that Time to baptize in. There be two more of the ewifh Feaffs to be fpoken to, which were great and folemn Feafts yet not fo great as thefe three ; becaufe the People were not all bound to come up to 7erufalem to the Tem- ple ; namely, the Feaft of Trumpets, and the Feaft of Expiation. They were both in the feventh Month, as was alto the Feaft of Tabernacles ;. the Feaft of Trumpets on the firft Day of it ; the Feaft of Expiation on the tenth Day ; and the Feaft of Tabernacles on the fifteenth Day, and from thence to the two and twentieth Day ; which is therefore accounted the greateft of all their Feafts, being in the feventh Month, which was alfo the firft in their old Account, the chiefeft of all the Months in the Years and called by forne the Sabbath of Months, as the feventh Day is the Sabbath of Days. 4. Their fourth annual Feaft was the Feaft ' of Trumpets ; which was upon the firft Day of the Seventh Month.. The firft Inftitution of it we have in Lev.23. 23, 24, 25. And the Lord fpake untoMofes, Paying, &c. it was celebrated as a Sabbath, they were to do no fervile Work there- in. This Feaft alfo had its peculiar Sacrifices appointed for it, as in Numb. 2.9. the fix firft Verfes. It was alfo folemnized with the blowing of Trumpets ; which being the fpecial Rite of this Feftivity, it had its Name from thence.. Here therefore the old legal Msifck may fitly be confidered, this being as it were their Feaft of Mufick. The Infli- tution of thefe Trumpets we read in Numb. fo. the ten firft Ver- fes, mentioned long after as a very folemn Ordinance in Pfal. Sr. 3, 4.. The firft mention we have of Mufical lnftrurnents in the Woe- tip of God, is in Exod. z5.2o, 21. where we read that Miriam ufed Timbrels, and they praifed God therewith, and they fang the Song of Mofes when they were delivered from Pharaoh. And Miriam the Pro- phetefs, the Sifter of Aaron took a Timbrai in her Hand, and all the Wo- men went out after her via Timbrels and with Dances. And . Miriam an. fwer d. them, Sind ye to the Lord, for be loath triumphed glorioufly ; the florfe
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