Of Quinquegesima. cap. 29.
QVinquegesima is called as it were .5 times 10, & betokeneth forgiuenesse, For the 50. yéere was called Annus iu∣bileus & was most solēpne & holy among the Hebrews. For in yt yere men yt were banished, shuld come home again. & debts shuld be forgiuē, & losse shuld be restored: And Quinquegesima beginneth the third sunday after Septuagesima: & endeth in the sunday of yt resurrection For it beto∣keneth ye state of grace, to yt which we be restored by ye benefit of penance: and ther∣fore fasting of holy church beginneth in ye middle of the wéeke of septuagesima, & then oft we rehearse yt .51. Psalme in the seruice of yt day. For it is a Psalm of pe∣nance, & is said welnigh in al yt houres, & ye Psalm is called Miserere m••i deus, the hallowing of the fiftie yere, that is called Annusiubileus, & began, as Hebrues tel, before the law, yt is to wit, before Abra∣hams time: yt deliuered his nephew Loth, yt was then .50. yere olde: & therfore after that time the fifty yéere was held among Abrahams children: and that was af∣terward allowed in time of the lawe, be∣cause