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By the Rule 5 whereas ^/?r/7 5. was Eafler-daj hy the Table 
and Praftick : And this evinces the miftake of thofe, (vha- 
make the 15th day of the Moon to be the Full in the fenfe 
ot the Rule 5 as Dr Wdllisy Philof Tra^f. 240. Mr Wrigk, 
in his Pojifcript to his Short Fiew of Mr Whi{ton'sChro?t(}logji, 
C^r. and the htrodu&io adChronologiam (Reprinted at Ox'^ 
ford, AD. J 704.) p 37. 
2. I prove the (econd Obfervation neceffary to the fame 
end 5. becaufe a full Moon in the fenfe of the Rule, (viz. 
the 1 4th . day of a Moon by the Church- Kalendar J often 
hsppens on Murch 21. and in that cafe the Sunday following 
is always Eajier-daj by the Tableand Praftice 5 vi^hereas it 
muft be a month after by the Rule, unlefs we underftand 
thefe words, [next af tct March 21, 2 as I explain them. 
And this will be the cafe next year (1706.) nor doth the 
proof of this point need the fuppofition of the foregoing, 
(tho' that, may now be fairly fuppofed, as being already 
prov*dO for,count you the full Moon how you will, March 
22, can never ho Eajler-day by the Rule, unlefs March 21. 
may be the Pafchal full Moon by the fame 5 and yet M<irch 
72. is Eajier-daj by the Table and Praftice, as often as the.^ 
Golden. Number is 16, and the Domhiical Lct^'er D. 
lam aware that this 2d Obfervation mayfeem to many 
forced and unnatural^ and that, perhaps, might induce fome 
to count the 15th day of the Moon for the Full in the Rule^ 
and Mr Jhomton, Philof,Travf 297, to fubftitute Af^rr/?> 20* - 
in. Leap-years for March 21. neither of which Hjpothefes^ 
however, do any fervice, alT things confider'd. The for- 
mer indeed would vacate my fecond Obfervation,(i\f<^rf A 21. 
never being rhe 15th day of the Moon by the ChurclvKa- 
lendarj but then it would make the Rule notorioufly irre- 
concilable with the Table and Praftice, as hath been already 
feen.- And, as to Mr Thornton % HypotheJis^ i. The only 
colour for it (viz. That at the time of the Council of Nice 
the Vernal Epiinox was March 20. in Leap-years, and not 
March 21. as in Common years } is, for any thing that I 
know, more likely to be falfe than true, and doth. by no 
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