PAR. 9.
THe fourth great Passeoverk 1.1 recorded (though questionlesse betweene Jo∣shua and Samuel many more were observed) if probability may take place, was in the dayes of Samuel, at Mizpeh,l 1.2 2 King. 23.22. Surely there was not hol∣den such a passeover as Josiah kept, from the dayes of the Iudges that judged Israel (over whom Samuel was the last Judge) nor in all the dayes of the Kings of Israel or Judah: consider the change of the phrase: there was none from the dayes of the Iudges, nor in the dayes of the Kings of Israel, or Iudah: and then we may both fairely conclude for the negative, that no King of Judah or Israel, kept so great a passeover, as Iosiah's was; and affirmatively, that in the dayes of the Iudges, such an one was kept: and lest you might stagger, or be uncertaine, it is expresse∣ly de••ermined,m 1.3 2 Chron. 35.18. There was no passeover like unto that which Iosi∣ab celebrated, from the dayes of Samuel the Prophet: whence conjecturally we may inferre, that in the dayes of Samuel, there was a most famous passeover, equall