[298] _E Theologia non pauci omnia quæ ad 14. noctem pertinent 15. attribuunt quem errorem hauserunt ex turbidis Rabbinorum lacunis qui hodie eundem errorem errant, teste Scaliger. de emend. Temp. l. 6 p. 270._
First, the _Passover_ was to be kept on the _fourteenth day of the first month, at even_. This was their second Sacrament, in which although they were enjoyned to eat unleavened bread with the Lamb, yet the _Feast of the unleavened bread_ began not till the morrow following, being the _fifteenth day of the same moneth_, and lasted seven daies of which only the first and last were holy Convocations, wherein they might do no servile work, _Levit. 23. 5, 6, 7, 8._
Secondly, the _Passover_, in the age following its first institution, might not be killed and eaten in any other place, save only where the _Lord_ did choose to place his name, which afterward was at _Jerusalem_: but the _feast of unleavened bread_, the _Hebrews_ thought themselves bound to keep in every place wheresoever they dwelt, if they could not be at _Jerusalem_: and _eating of it_, they say,[299] _depended not upon the eating of the Passover, but it was a commandment by it self_.
[299] _לא תלה אבי לת זר בקרבן הפסח אלא זו מצות עצמה Maimon. de fermento & Azymo c. 6. sect. 1._
The _Rites_ and _Ceremonies_ observed by the _Jews_ in the eating of this Sacrament, their _Paschal Lamb_, agreed with those general Ceremonies used in their solemn Feasts. They _blessed the cup_, and _blessed the bread_, and _divided_ amongst the guests, and _washed the feet_ of those that sate at the table, as is shewn in the Chapter of _Feasts_. The particulars in which it differed from other Feasts, are delivered in those interrogatories, or questions proposed in way of _Catechism_, by some child, at the time of eating their _Passover_, or rather in the answer made unto the child by him that blessed the table. The question was thus: What meaneth this service? The form of the answer was,[300] How different is this night from all other nights, for all other nights we wash but once, in this twice (thus _Christ_ when supper was ended washed his Disciples feet.) In all other nights we eat either leavened or unleavened bread, in this only unleavened: In other nights we eat any sort of herbs, in this night bitter herbs: In all other nights we eat and drink either sitting or lying, but in this we lye along. Then he proceeded to declare, that the _Passover_ was in respect that the _Lord passed over_ the houses of their Fathers in _Egypt_. Secondly, He held up the bitter herbs in his hand, and said; These bitter herbs which we eat, are in respect that the _Egyptians_ made the lives of our _Fathers bitter in Ægypt_. Thirdly, he held up the unleavened bread in his hand, and said, This unleavened bread which we eat, it is in respect that the dough of our Fathers had not time to be leavened, when the Lord appeared unto them, and redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy. This kind of _Catechising_ they say, is commanded, _Exod. 12. 26._ They called it הגדה _Haggada_, (i.) _Annunciatio_, the _declaration_ or _shewing forth_ of the _Passover_. Hence the _Apostle_ borroweth this phrase; _As often as ye shall eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye shall declare, ~or~ shew forth, the Lord’s death_, _1 Cor. 11. 26._