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riiough it cannot be denyed, but that the Reformation 
from the time of our Saviour had been much better 
Butfince the Fathers of the Council of iV/V^ thought it 
more Wifdom to look forwards, than to look backwards, 
and to have greater Care of avoiding Diftr«aions in the 
Church, about the Celebration of Edfler for the fu- 
ture, than to remedy the Errors paft : I think we ftiall 
do well, with the Church of Rome to follow their Ex- 
ample. And whereas fome have thought of a more 
exatfi Calculation^ than this Emendation^ introduced 
by Pope Gregary iho. y^nith, which they ground upon 
the late Aftronomical Obfervations of the learned Tyeho 
Brahe : yet fince the Difference is not fo great, as to 
make any fenfible Error in many Ages, and fince that 
Error may be eafily correifted by the Omiffion of an in- 
tercalary Day, I think it not fit for fo fmali a nicety to 
make a new DijfTenfion in the Church. Much lefs am I 
of their Opinion^ who think this Corredion of the Year 
therefore to be rejected, becaufeit comes recommended 
by the Church of Rome: which were all one torefufe 
fome wholfom Potion, becaufe it is prefcribed by a Phyfi- 
cian whofe Manners we approve not of. And thus far I 
aflent to Mr. P^^, 
But I cannot fubfcribe to his Opinion, that this Refor- 
mation (hould be made by the fubtradion often days 
out of one year alone. For tho' I grant, that this were 
a quick cure of a lingring Difeafc, yet it isagainft all 
Rules of Art in curing one malady to make Ten. Fgi^; 
it cannot be, but that the Defalcation of Ten Days in 
one Year muft be of infinite Difturbance in theCommoa 
wealth in all Contrafts, where neceffarily a certaia tim« 
is defined. And therefore when JMus C^far the Dida-* 
torcorrefted the Roman Year by the hdpof Sojigwes^ 
a Mathematician, after this manner, thatisj by Subtra- 
ftion of Days, that Year,in which he did it,was called by 
the hntknt^Awus Confufioms : by Reafon of the great 
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