An essay concerning the Sabbath, or, The Sabbath-days rest from controversie wherein is asserted that our Christian Sabbath, Lords-day, or Sunday is the very same day of the week which was anciently observed by the Jews and Gentiles for the solemn day of their solemn weekly worship, before Israels coming out of Ægypt and after that by gentiles : prefaced, with an introduction thereunto touching the true meaning of Gen. 2 v, 2, 3 / by N. Homes.
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- An essay concerning the Sabbath, or, The Sabbath-days rest from controversie wherein is asserted that our Christian Sabbath, Lords-day, or Sunday is the very same day of the week which was anciently observed by the Jews and Gentiles for the solemn day of their solemn weekly worship, before Israels coming out of Ægypt and after that by gentiles : prefaced, with an introduction thereunto touching the true meaning of Gen. 2 v, 2, 3 / by N. Homes.
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- Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.
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- London :: Printed for the author,
- 1673.
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"An essay concerning the Sabbath, or, The Sabbath-days rest from controversie wherein is asserted that our Christian Sabbath, Lords-day, or Sunday is the very same day of the week which was anciently observed by the Jews and Gentiles for the solemn day of their solemn weekly worship, before Israels coming out of Ægypt and after that by gentiles : prefaced, with an introduction thereunto touching the true meaning of Gen. 2 v, 2, 3 / by N. Homes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A44280.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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September) after all their inga∣thering of all their Fruits of the Earth, Exod. 23.16. And the Feast of Harvest, the First-fruits of thy labours which thou hast sown in the Field, and the Feast of INGATHERING which is in the END of the YEAR, when thou hast gathered in the Labours out of the field: Likewise, Ex. 34.22. And thou shalt observe the Feast of weeks, of the First-fruits of Wheat-Harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the YEARS-END: Now hence forward they were to begin their Year with the Moneth in which they had their Freedom from Aegypt, Exod. 12. 2. This Moneth shall be unto you the BEGINNING of MONETHS, it shall be the FIRST MONETH of the YEAR to you. Which Moneth was called in the He∣brew Abib, and by the Chaldee Nisan, consisting partly of our March, and partly of our April,
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being with them the first Moneth after the Vernal Aequinoctial, that is, after the Spring-Aequality of the Day and Night. So that from after their deliverance from Aegypt, the Israelites had a new Year, and a new Moneth, and a new day to begin their year withal. So that although in re∣spect of their Civil Affairs they began their Year, their Moneth, and Day as they did before they came out of Aegypt; yet in this New Ecclesiastical, or Sacred Year, they began their Day at Even. All their Sabbaths and all other their Sacred days, and so also their Week-days, for measuring out to them their Sacred days they began at Even. They had the Evening to be the former part of the Day, Levit. 23.32.
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A new be∣ginning of the Year.
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