The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.

The answere.

For the exact explication of this graue obiection, wee must diligently obserue three things. First, that the Iewes deui∣ded as well the night as the day, into foure equall parts. Se∣condly, that they tearmed the foure parts of the night, vi∣gils, and the foure parts of the day, houres. Thirdly, that the names of y^e foure houres were these, the first, the third, the sixt, and the ninth, so that all the morning to nine of the clocke with vs, was called the first houre with them: from nine to twelue, the third houre; from twelue to three the sixt houre;* 1.1 from three

to night, the ninth houre. I therefore answere to the obiection, that S. Iohn and saint Marke do well agree; neither is the one dissonant to the other: for when S. Marke saith, that Christ was crucified the third houre, he meaneth in the end thereof, which was about noone, or almost the sixt houre, as S. Iohn declareth it: for euerie one of their houres contained three of our houres as is alreadie said. And euery day with them, both began and ended at sixe of the clocke with vs. Where I note by the way, that these houres are sometimes dilated, & made foure threes,* 1.2 like to our houres; for so we reade in S. Mathew, at the hyring of the labourers into the vineyard. But how∣soeuer the supputation was made, the midday euer iumped with the sixt houre, either in the ende or in the beginning there∣of. Which obseruations an•• distinction well remembred, ma∣ny obscure places in the scriptures will be euident.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Partition of the day and night.
• * 1.2

  Mat. 20. verse. 1 &c.