PAR. 11.
MOst holily did our Saviour say to them, Matth. 15.3. Ye transgresse the Com∣mandements of God, by your traditions; and verse 6. Ye make the Commande∣ment of God, of none effect by your tradition; and ver. 9. In vaine doe they worship mee, teaching for doctrines, the Commandements of men: what the Iewes before, and in our Saviours life did practise; their Successours followed to an haire. Sebastian Mun∣ster (in his Tractat. called, Translationes anni, fixioner, pag. 141.) bringeth in a Iew, giving a reason, why they varied from Gods appointment, thus; Sapientes roborave∣runt verba sua, plus quà ea, quae sunt legis; our Rabbins, and Wise men have more regarded their owne Interpretations, than the letter of the Law. So I expound. In sensis favorabili; they trod in the steps of their Fathers, preferring their owne Tra∣ditions before the preceps of God. More particulatly, the said Munster, in his Booke, where he handleth the Hebrew Calendar, thus; Patet, apud Judaeos duplicem haberi Paschae rationem, unam ••egitimam, quâ juxta legem Mosaicam, &c. It is appa∣rent that the Iewes kept a double account of their Passeover; one lawfull, by which, according to the Mosaicall Law, it was appointed to be killed, towards the end of the fourteenth day, and to be eaten toward the Evening, which began the fifteenth day. The other account was (full of Law) invented by the Lawyers; and for foolish causes erected against the Law of God; by which they put over, for one or two dayes, their New-Moones, or Calendar of their moneths: other where, in the same booke, he promiseth to shew, with what frivolous reasons they endeavoured to palliate, or varnish over this changing of Feasts; and to excuse the Transgression of the Divine Law.