A70035:245
The Scriptures harmony
The Scriptures harmony by E.F., Esq.
London: printed by Richard Cotes for William Hope, 1643
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Neither can any inconvenience follow from the season of the year, that Christ should then go into the river Jordan to be baptized For in Judea there is very little winter, and that only in October, and the beginning of November. And the Scriptures tell us, that on the second day after the Passover, which was the 16. day of the month Abib alias Nisan, and is with us the 27. of March, a sheaf of the first fruits of Harvest was offered.
Neither can any inconvenience follow from the season of the yeere, that Christ should then go into the river Iordan to be baptized For in Iudea there is very little winter, and that onely in October, and the beginning of November. And the Scriptures tell us, that on the second day after the Passeover, which was the 16. day of the moneth Abib alias Nisan, and is with us the 27. of March, a sheafe of the first fruits of Harvest was offered.
The first Passover after His Baptism was about the end of three months, John 2. v. 13. 23.
The first Passeover after His Baptisme was about the end of three moneths, Iohn 2. v. 13. 23.
The second Passover is expressed, John c. 5. v. 1. where the word Feast, by way of eminency is put for the Passover, which was the chiefest feast of the Jews. So Matth. 27. v. 15. So John 4. v. 45