PROPOSITIONS FOR Correcting our Calendar ; Theologically, Theoretically, and Mathematically demonftrated. CONTAINING, Firft the Year, Day, and Time, when the Sun and Moon were first placed and confpicuous in the Heavens, with a brief Chronology from the Creation to the Birth of Chrift. II. The Paffion, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord, and if the Paffion-Day, on our Thursday or Friday. III. The Solemn Feaft of Eafter, and the Primitive Traditions and Controverfies about the Time and Day of Celebration, with new and correct Tables of Eafter. IV. Propofitions for correcting our Calendar, and removing our Fixed and Moveable Festivals, to their true Times and Seasons according to God's Command and Inftitution, without having any Regard to the Gregorian Correction. V. Festivals directed by New or Full Moons exploded; the Inftitution and Celebration of the Pafchal Lamb in Egypt; the Paffover, and all Jewish Ceremonies abfolutely abolished. VI. The Antient and Present Arian Herefy exhibited and exploded. VII. The Godhead, Divinity, Perfonality, and Unity of the most Holy Trinity prov'd, and defended against the Unitarian Do&trine of the Prefent Arians, as published and taught by them and others; and for fupprefling the new Arian Meeting-house now errected and opened in Southwark. All which is most humbly fubmited to the Approbation of the King's moft Excellent Majefty, in Council, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britian in Parlia rent. LONDON: Printed in the Year MDCCXXXVI. 2202 14 A Theoretical Mathematical and Theological Demonftration and Computation, of the Year, Day, and Time, when the Sun and Moon were firft Placed, and Confpicuous in the Heavens, and Confequently the World's Creation, T By ROBERT BROWN E. Theorem. HE Sun and Moon we may believe were Placed, and Confpicuous in the Heavens on the fourth Day: And at that Time began to act upon each other, by the Force, or Impetus of Gravity, that confequently the Sun was then in one of the Equinoxes, in Apogee, and the Moon nearly oppofite, and alfo in Apogee. That Wednesday, being the fourth Day of the Creation with us, muft begin about 2 or 3 in the Afternoon, on Tuesday, for the Evening and the Morning were the fourth Day: And our Meridian. 3 or 4 Hours Weft of Havilah: Hence we may conjecture, that the Sun was Confpicuous about 8 in the Morning, on Wednesday with us, being Noon at Havilah, and the Moon about 2 or 3 in the Evening with us, being fix there, and then ended the fourth Day. Now we read Joshua the 10th, 13, 14, that the Sun ftood fill and the Moon ftayed about a whole Day; and in Ifaiah 38th, 8, that the Sun returned ten Degrees backward in the Sundial of Abaz; this indeed proves the Rotation of the Earth upon its Axis, because the Moon flood alfo, yet this is of no Account with us in our Computation as to the Sun; for if the Earth ftood ftill, the Day ftood ftill also, and we are but where we was; for when God made the World, he made Time alfo, and that Time is measured with A with us by the Rotation; then no Rotation, no Time, and confequently the Moon, being as it were a Satellite to the Earth it is like had no Motion for that Time, the going Back in the Cafe of Abaz is much the fame. Now as to the true Time and Age of the World, there has been many Opinions; and it seems from all to be left Difficult and Precarious For as to the Year of the Birth of our Lord from the Creation, Chronologers differ much from each other: Eufebius laid down 5199. Jerome computes it to be 3965, Epiphanius 5480, Nicephorus 5505. The old Rabbins 3759. Ludovicus Carretus, a Few, 3760. Carion 3944. Phrigio 3962. Theodorus Zinger 3964. Citraus 3962. Luther 3960. Eliot 3962. The Minifters of Figurine 3974. Demochares 3959: But the common Accounts brought in by Dionyfius the Lefs, hold, that Chrift was Born in the Year of the World 3950: So likewife concerning the Time of the Year, in which the World was created: There has been much Controversy about it, and although Reufner and others, by divers Arguments, hold that it was made in the vernal Equinox, yet Scaliger, Calvifus, Helvicus and others maintain and conclude that it was created in the Equinox of the Autumn, which is evident from Gen. the ift it was not; for there it is faid, Gen. 1, ver. the Earth brought forth the Bud of the Herb that feedeth Seed, according to his Kind, and the Tree yeilding Fruit, whofe Seed was in itself, after bis Kind. Hence the Seed was not yet brought forth, but remained in the Mystery of God's Creation of those Vitals, until the proper Season which followed after the Creation of the two great Luminaries ; elfe Nature must have altered its first Property from Autumn to Spring: Which it is evident it has not, unless we could find the Garden of Eden South of the Equater, which was fituate near Havilah, about the Latitude of 33 Degrees North, 3 or 4 Hours Eaft of London: Now our following Computation will decide all these different and idle Notions repugnant to holy Scripture, which always proves true, when compared with the Truth; and it will appear evident, that our Conftructions cannot err oné quarter Part of one Day. 12. And Now the mean Motion of the Sun from my Observations and the precedent Conftruction was March the 9d, 3h, 45m, past Noon, 1725 11 Signs, 28 Degrees, and 96-1000 Parts, and the Place of the Earth's Perihelion, or the Sun's Apogee, 3 Signs, 8 Degrees, and 207-1000 Parts, which brought back to December the 31, at Noon, 1720, the Sun's mean Motion will then be, 9s 20° 888, and the Place of the Sun's Apogee 3 s 8° 134, and the mean Motion of the Moon, from the vernal Equinox, as it is now computed 2s 289 891, and the mean Place of her Apogee 28 12137, hence. Epocha Epocha and Time. Anno Chrifti 1721. This fubftr. from 1721 Mean Mot. Apogee 0 9 8 134 Mean Mot. Apogee of the D of the 2 28 8912 12 137 7 5000 17 250 6 18 1110 11 850 5 2500 12 08211 24 6771 14 295 O 1500 O 345 4 13 5623 3 837 12 9000 29 077 10 26 3504 29 982 7 9882 8.457 4 2 5419 12 155 Dec. 31. after the Birth of Chrift according to the Julian PeriodMotion for 3000 Years 0 22 500|1 21 765 7 24 3331 5 55° Motion for 900 Years 06 7500 15 531 8 10 2998 22 665 Motion for 60 Years O 0.4500 I 035 1 10 6869 11 511 Motion for 7 Years 11 29 3130 O 120 6 18 8649 14 759 Sum fubftract Leaves Mot. from this to April 2 28 70800 004 3 15 8750 10 027 Motion for 23 Days This is 0 22 6700 O 002/10 3 0570 2 562 O 3530 O 012 5 17 2915 O 259 O O O 329 24 353 And the equated place of the Moon and Apog. о And this is the 3966th Year before the Birth of our Lord, and the Cycle of the Sun for this Time 19, the Dominical Letter E, and the Day of the Week Wednesday, being the fourth Day of the Creation, at 3 Hours, 25 Minutes in the Morning with us, and about 6 in the Forenoon at Eden, the fourth Day because the Evening and the Morning was the fourth Day, and must confequently be the Year and Time when the World was created, according to the Julian Period; for no other Time can be compa red with this Propofition, but this, as will appear by the following Computations: And it will alfo appear, that it was Full Moon about 9 in the Evening, the fixth Day, in which God created Man upon the Earth. |