Lastly, If _tau_ be not put for a common appellative noun, signifying a mark or sign, but for the figure or character of the letter _tau_ as an image of the cross, by all likelihood this character only should have been put in the Hebrew text, and not the noun fully written; _vehithvith a tau_, and mark a mark. As to the other place,(839) Rev. vii. 3, Pareus observeth, that there is no figure or form of any sign there expressed, and he thinks that seal was not outward and visible, but the same whereof we read, 2 Tim. ii. 19, and Rev. xiv. 1, which cannot be interpreted _de signo transeunte; nam Christianum semper nomen filii, et patris in fronte oportet gerere_, saith Junius.(840) Dr Fulk, on Rev. vii. 3, saith, that the sign here spoken of is proper to God’s elect, therefore not the sign of the cross, which many reprobates have received. _Sect._ 7. Bishop Andrews will have the feast of Easter drawn from that place,(841) 1 Cor. v. 8, where he saith, there is not only a warrant, but an order for the keeping of it; and he will have it out of doubt that this feast is of apostolical institution, because after the times of the apostles, when there was a contention about the manner of keeping Easter, it was agreed upon by all, that it should be kept; and when the one side alleged for them St. John, and the other St. Peter, it was acknowledged by both that the feast was apostolical. I answer, The testimony of Socrates deserveth more credit than the Bishop’s naked conclusion. “I am of opinion (saith Socrates(842)), that as many other things crept in of custom in sundry places, so the feast of Easter to have prevailed among all people, of a certain private custom and observation.” But whereas Bishop Lindsey, in defence of Bishop Andrews, replieth, that Socrates propoundeth this for his own opinion only: I answer, that Socrates, in that chapter, proveth his opinion from the very same ground which Bishop Andrews wresteth to prove that this feast is apostolical. For while as in that hot controversy about the keeping of Easter, they of the East alleged John the apostle for their author, and they of the West alleged Peter and Paul for themselves, “Yet (saith Socrates), there is none that can shew in writing any testimony of theirs for confirmation and proof of their custom. And hereby I do gather, that the celebration of the feast of Easter came up more of custom than by any law or canon.” _Sect._ 7. Downame (as I touched before) allegeth the fourth commandment for holidays of the church’s institution. But Dr Bastwick allegeth more truly the fourth commandment against them:(843) “Six days shalt thou labour.” This argument I have made good elsewhere; so that now I need not insist upon it. There are further two examples alleged against us for holidays, out of Esth. ix. 17, 18, 27, 28, and John x. 22.