444 The Gebel of the Sabbaths. hedid, as in the whole State of his Humiliation ; fo efpecially when he was conceived in the Virgins Womb. 4. The New Moon is put for every thing beneath Chrift, Rev. 12. s. the World, which in refpea ofthe Changeablenefs of it, is like theMoon, the World and the Glory thereof paffeth away, never ftanding at the fame flay. This fhould be frequently upon our Hearts and Thoughts. 5. They were to obferve the firft day ofthe Month, not the fifth or faith Day : So alto their morning Sacrifice was to be offered early in the morning ; and the Paffover celebrated the ftrsb Month in the Year. To teach them, that as ever they expeaed the Bleffing ofGod upon the reft of their time, they mutt be careful to fet apart the firft and heft of all their Days and Hours unto his Service. 6. They were to obferve the firft day of every month, one as well as another. Which checks that fuperftitious Conceit, as if there were lucky and unlucky Times ; whereas God hath fanaified everymonth, and every time to his People ; as on the contrary to theWicked, the molt lucky Times provedifaftrous : As among the Papifts that famous Year i 588. crowned with fo many Aftrological Prædi Lions of enfuing 1 appinefs and Viaory, proved quite contrary to their Expeaations So that Fulke "'ref. Rhem. Teff. faith of it, Oúogefimus Otlavus mirabilis annus. Clack Papiflarum fauftus ubique pill. No Month to a godly Man is of it felf Evil, but let a wicked Haman calf lots from the beginning of the Year to the ending, he (hall find no Month good. So much for the Myftery of their New Moons, the fecond fort of their holy Times. 3. The third is their Sabbaths. Let no Man judge you in refpeli of the Sabbath. A Word to that, and fo we (hall finifh the Text at this time. The general Notion ofa Sabbath is a time of Reef. They had three forts of Sabbaths ; their weekly Sabbath, every feventh day ; their yearly Sabbath, every feventh year ; and theirgreat fabbati- cal Tear, reckoning feven times feven Years, which was their Yubilee, every fiftieth Tear. In every one ofwhich was fomething of a Shadow of things tocome, the Apoftle is exprefs, theft Things are a Shadow of Things to come. ,Quell'. Wherein ? .4ofw. r. Their weekly Sabbath on the feventh Day of the Week ; this was partly Moral and Perpetual, confidered as a feventh part of weekly time, ,fanûifaed and fet apart by God from common Ufe, reft for Man to
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