EASTER DAY is the First Sunday after the Full Moon, which in some cases happens upon, in others next after, the Twentieth Day of March, according to the time it would occur in Judea (a); and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after. Trinity Sunday Eight Weeks Forty Days Seven Weeks after Easter. Advent Sunday is the next Sunday after the 26th of November. (a) For instance, if the Full Moon happens here so early in the Day of the 20th of March, that it must have happened at Jerusalem before the 19th expired, Easter Day is not until the Sunday after the following Moon. A TABLE, pointing out the GOLDEN NUMBER, the SUNDAY LETTER, and EASTER DAY, from 1813 to 1861. inclusive, according to the foregoing Calendar. THIS Table contains so much of the Calendar as is necessary for the determining of Easter; to find which, look for the Golden Number of the year in the first column of the Table, against which stands the day of the Paschal Full Moon; then look in the third column for the Sunday-Letter, next after the day of the Full Moon, and the Day of the Month standing against that Sunday-Letter is Easter-Day. If the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, then (according to the first rule) the next Sunday after is Easter-Day. To find the Golden Number, or Prime, add I to the year of our Lord, and then divide by 19; the remainder, if any, is the Golden Number; but if nothing remaineth, then 19 is the Golden Number. Another TABLE to find EASTER till the Year 1899 inclusive, 1st. Prophecies in the Old Testament referred to. 2d. Prophecies in the New Testament referred to. 3d. Miracles and Observations thereon. 4th. Conduct and Works of the Apostles, and Observations thereon. 5th. Christian Duties and Virtues, and Observations thereon. 1. Prophecies in the Old Testament referred to. THAT the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head (Gen. iii. 15.) That in Abraham and in the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, should all the nations of the earth be blessed. (Gen. xii. 3.-xxii. 18.-xxvi. 4.- xxviii. 14.) That the sceptre (or tribeship) should not depart from Juda, nor a law giver from between his feet, until Shiloh should come: and that to him should the gathering of the people be. (Gen. That God should raise up a prophet from among the children of Israel, like unto Moses, and would put his (God's) words into his mouth, and would call those to account who should not - - That one of David's seed " should be to "God a Son, and God should be to " him a Father, and that God would " settle him in his (God's) house and " in his kingdom for ever, and that "his throne should be established " for evermore." (I Chron. xvii. 13, 14.-xxii. 10. Ps. lxxxix. 10.- cxxxii. 11, 12. ii. 7.) That the children of Israel should seek the Lord their God, and David their king; that God should set up a shep- herd over them, even his servant David; that David should be king over them, and should be their prince for ever. (Jer. xxx. 9.-Ez. xxxiv, 23, 24. must have been meant some one of his That out of Bethlehem Ephratah should he come forth that was to be the ruler in Israel, whose goings forth had been from of old, from everlasting. (Mic. That the desire of all nations should That 70 weeks, (i. e. 490 years) were de- 63 That the Jews should be carried captive to Babylon, and that their captivity should continue 70 years. (Jer. xxv. That Cyrus should order Jerusalem to be (a) The Decree in the 7th of Artaxerxes was (even to a month) 490 ordinary years before the cruci- desert a highway for our God; and that the glory of the Lord should be revealed. (Is. xl. 3. 5.) page 7.34.172 That God should send his messenger, who should prepare the way before him, that the Lord, whom they sought should suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, in whom they delighted; and that he should purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver. (Mal. That God should send Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, and that he should turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the chil- dren to the fathers. (Mal. iv. 5,6.) 33.96. That a virgin should conceive and bear a That the Lord had created a new thing That a rod should come out of the stem of Jesse, &c. that the spirit of the Lord should be upon him, that he should judge the poor with righteousness, and with the breath of his lips should slay the wicked, and that righteous- ness should be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. That a child should be born that should - That God should raise unto David a righteous branch, and a king should reign and prosper, and should execute judgment and justice on the earth. " to preach good tidings unto the "Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; be- "hold thy king cometh unto thee; he " is just and having salvation: lowly, " and riding upon an ass, and upon a "colt the foal of an ass; and he shall speak peace unto the heathen." "Behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recom- "opened, and the ears of the deaf shal " be unstopped, then shall the lame man leap as an hart; and the tongue " of the dumb sing," &c. (Is. xxxv. " I gave my back to the smiters," &c " He is despised and rejected of men,' "He was wounded for our transgres- " sions, he was bruised for our iniqui- "ties: the chastisement of our peace " was upon him, and with his stripes " we are healed." (Is. liii. 5.) 106. 137 " He made his grave with the wicked, and " with the rich in his death." (Is. liii. " He was numbered with the transgres- sors, and bare the sin of many, and " made intercession for the transgres- "They gave me gall to eat, and when "I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar "All they that go by laugh me to scorn; they shoot out their lips, and shake " their heads, saying, " he trusted in God, that he would deliver him; " let him deliver him, if he will have "They pierced my hands and my feet; That not a bone of the paschal lamb, (which was a type of the Messiah,) " " - - 123 "Awake, O sword, against my shep- "herd, and against the man that is my " fellow, saith the Lord of Hosts: "smite the shepherd, and the sheep "shall be scattered; and it shall come "to pass, that in all the land, saith the "Lord, two parts thereof shall be cut "off and die; and I will bring the "third part through the fire, and will "refine them as silver is refined, and " will try them as gold is tried; they people, and they shall say, the Lord " is my God." (Zech. xiii. 7,8,9.) 101 "Thou shalt not leave my soul in hell, 32 "His dominion shall be from sea even to " ends of the earth." (Zech. ix. 10.) "There was given him dominion and "glory, and a kingdom, that all people, "nations, and languages should serve " him. His dominion is an everlasting " dominion, which shall not pass away, " and his kingdom that which shall "not be destroyed." (Dan. vii. 14.) of the vengeance that should follow On the sufferings of the apostles and con- On the powers they possessed 135.142. On the conduct of the apostles in ad. vancing God's glory, not their own 31 On the testimony they bore to the resur- rection of Jesus Christ 130, 131.151 On their expectations at the time called 59 On his conduct 58.198, 199. 202 On his opposition to the Jews, and de- sending devils into a herd of swine 62 casting out a devil from the daughter 5. Christian Duties and Virtues, and of a Canaanitish woman Observations thereon. 84 cleansing a leper 57,58 161. 163, 164. 166.168.205.209 healing a man of the palsy 209 a widow's son 200 213 On the duty of lowliness of mind - 110. 187. 207 |