440 The Gofpel of the Feaft of Trumpets. might be a fit folace for the ChiIdifh Eftate of the Church under the Law. 3. This Cathedral Mufick introduceth into the Church of God a Rabble ofChurch Officers which the Lord never appointed, and which never came into his Heart, the Chorifters and Singing-men, 6-'c. and that is a very great Evil. It is not in the power of Men, but it is the great Prerogative of Jefus Chrift to appoint Officers in his Church, who bath appointed none but Paftors and Teachers, Elders and Dea- cons. 5. The fifth Annual Feaft was the Feaft of Expiation or Atonement. This was on the tenth day of this feven Month, the Rules and Rites whereof are fet down at large in Levit. 16. which becaufe they are many, and very fignificant, and full of Gofpel- myfteries : Therefore I purpofe ( the Lord afïifting) to (peak to it more at large in a di- ftin& Dilcourfe by it felf, having here only mentioned it in its place to which it doth belong. Queft. Were thefe then all their yearly Feafls ? Had they no more but thefe five under the Law, viz. the Paffover, the Feaft of Pentecoft, the Feaft of Tabernacles, the Feaft of Trumpets, and the Feaft of Expia- tion? 4nfcv. They had no more of God's Appointment that were perpetual and religious Feafts. It is true, we read of fome others both in Scrip- ture and in the Jewifh Writers; but either they were not perpetually recurring every Year, but meetly occafional upon prefent emergencies of Providence ; or elfe they were not holy and religious Feafts, but only Civil and Political ; or elfe laftly they were finful and unwarran- table : As, i. There was Solomon's Feaft, that folemn Feaft at the Dedication of the Temple, as in z Chron. 5. but this was extraordinary and occa9 fional, and not a ftanding yearly Feftival. 2. They had allo thofe Fafts of the fifth and of the feventh Month which are mentioned in Zech. 7.3---5. but thefe alto were but tem- porary and occafional ; upon occafion of the Calamities of their Cap- tivity in Babylon, the Land being laid defolate, ferufalem taken, the Temple deftroyed. Hence they had thefe Fafts only during the time of their Sorrow, but they ceafed and were turned into rejoycing. 3. There were the days of Purim mentioned in Efiher 9. 21, 22. which they kept in the Month of Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenthday of the Month yearly : For then it was turned from Sor- row to Joy, and from Mourning to a good Day. This feems not to be a religious, but a political Conflitution ; fo our Divines e
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