1. For the time when the holy Ghost was sent, it is said when the day of Pentecost was fully come; this was a Feast of the Jews called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 from fifty days; because it was ever kept on the Fiftyeth day after the second of the Passeover. We find in Scripture sundry memorable things reckoned by the number of fifty. As fifty days from Israels coming out of Egypt unto the giving of the Law. And the fifty∣eth year was that great feast of the Jubilee, which was the time of forgiving of debts, and of restoring men to their first estates; And fifty days were in truth the appointed time of the Jews Harvest; their harvest being bounded as it were with two remark∣able days, the one being the beginning, the other the end thereof; the beginning was 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the second of the Passeover; the end was 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the fiftyeth day after, called the Pentecost; upon the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 they offered a sheaf of the first-fruits of their harvest: upon the Pentecost they offered two wave-loaves, the sheaf being offered, all the after-fruits throughout the Land were Sanctified; and the two loaves being offered it was a sign of the harvest finished and ended; and now we find, that as there were fifty days betwixt 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and the Pentecost, so there were fifty days betwixt Christs Resurrection and the coming down of the holy Ghost. What was the meaning of this, but to hold harmony, and to keep correspondency with those memorable things? as on the day of Pentecost (fifty days after the feast of the Passeover) the Israelites came to mount Sinai, there received they the Law; a memorable day with them, and therefore called the feast of the Law; so the very same day is accomplished that prophesie, Out of Zion shall go forth the Law, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem; now was the promulgation of the Gospel called by James the Royal Law, as given by Christ our King, and written in the hearts of his servants by this holy Ghost; it seems to shadow out the great difference be∣twixt the Law and the Gospel; the Law was given with terrour, in lightning and thunder; it discovers sin, declares God's Wrath, frights the Conscience; but the Gospel is given without terrour, there was no lightning and thunder now: no, no; the holy Ghost slides down from heaven with grace, and gifts; and with great joy sits on the heads, and in the hearts of his Saints. 2. On the Jubilee, or fiftyeth year, was a great feast; whence some observe that the Latines made their word Jubilo, to take up a Merry Song; though the word be derived from the Hebrew Jobel, which signifies a Rams horn; for then they blew with Rams horns, as when they gathered the people to the Congregation they blew their Silver Trumpets. There were many uses of this feast; 1. For the general release of Servants. 2. For the restoring of Lands unto their first owners who had sold them. 3. For the keeping of a right chronology, and reckoning of times; for as the Greeks did reckon by their Olimpiads, and the Latine, by their Lustra, so did the Hebrews by their Jubilees; this falls fit with the proclaiming of the Gospel, which is an act or tender of Gods most gra∣cious general free pardon of all sins, and of all the sinners in the World; now was the sound of the Gospel made known unto all, out of every Nation under heaven; now was that spiritual Jubilee which Christians enjoy under Christ; now was the remission published which exceeded the remission of the Jubilee, as for as the Jubilee exceeded the remission of the Seventh year (i.e.) not only seven times, but seventy times seven times. 3. On the day of Pentecost they offered the two wave-loaves called the bread of the first fruits unto the Lord. In like sort this very day (the Lord of the harvest so disposing it) the Apostles by the assistance and effectual working of the Spirit offered the first-fruits of their harvest unto the Lord; for the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. We see the circumstance of time hath its due weight, and is very considerable; when the day of Pentecost was fully come, then came the holy Ghost.