Of our Lords time to ordeyne the Supper: grosse errours allowed by D. Bancroft, after sufficient advertisement.

THe Pascha was to be killed the fourteenth day of Nisan in the Temple, the place that God would choose. And it was death not to observe the day and place, but by the ex∣ceptions conteyned in the Lawe: Both the Pascha of hocke-beast, Lambe, or kidde which stood vpon expresse cōmand∣ment, Exod. 12. and Pascha of Oxe & Ram, Deut. 16. which was a permissiō. The whole storie is in 2. Chr. in Iosias, these were killed both in one day. The Lambe was eaten al at one meale, or the remnant was burnt: the other might conti∣newe for two dayes as the peace-offring, but not vnto the second morning: and for that, they that kept it, kept the whole day festine with their brave apparell, & good cheare, as Thalmud Ierusalemy in Pasach noteth. That is noted of S. Iohn 18. The ignorance of Rabbines for that Pascha, made some feigne that our Lord prevented the Iewes a day: that Page  [unnumbered] zeale wāted knowledge: For so he had not eaten the Lambe kild in the Temple, and so he had broken the Law: But hee sawe his Lambe killed in the Temple, and his owne sad case, the Lambe flead, as him selfe crucified naked: the Lambes blood poured on the Altar, as his owne blood on the altar of the Crosse, the Lambe made a sacrifice, as him selfe a sa∣crifice: the Lambe ending sacrifice, as his death then ending all sacrifice.

Now Bezaes note followed of vs, would make our Gos∣pell wicked, as teaching that our Lord kept not the Lawe. Saint Marke taught the trueth plainly: That the day on which they sacrifized the Lambe, the Disciples asked where he would they prepared.

May mony in C•rbaan Pascha sheweth that the Lambe was carried from the Temple to the private houses: when the fatt was brent in the fire, and the blood by sacrificers brought in golden cuppes, from the first by the rest vnto him that stood at the Altars foote. Now the Altars foote had spoutes, and the sacrifices blood was reserved for vse of Gardens.

The Gospell needed not to handle this which all the Na∣tion knew: and reason would tell that so much blood must haue an end. The Libeller that skoffed Rabbique studies, & D Bancroft the allower, shewe to al Learned, that they come short 40. yeares studies of fitt learning to see how the Apo∣stles alike speake plainlie to the Iewes knowne affaires: and when they prophanely skoffe openers of Gods trueth, The Anathenian Maran Atha must be noted to be neare them.