Lastly, The absurdity in making common unto many Nations those considerations whose verity is but particular unto some, will more evidently appear, if we examine the Rules and Precepts of some one climate, and fall upon consideration with what incongruity they are transferrible unto others. Thus is it advised by _Hesiod_. _Pleiadibus Atlante natis orientibus Incipe messem, Arationem vero occidentibus._ Implying hereby the Heliacal ascent and Cosmical descent of those stars. Now herein he setteth down a rule to begin harvest at the arise of the Pleiades; which in his time was in the beginning of _May_. This indeed was consonant unto the clime wherein he lived, and their harvest began about that season: but is not appliable unto our own, for therein we are so far from expecting an harvest, that our Barley-seed is not ended. Again, correspondent unto the rule of _Hesiod_, _Virgil_ affordeth another, _Ante tibi Eoæ Atlantides abscondantur, Debita quam sulcis committas semina._ Understanding hereby their Cosmical descent, or their setting when the Sun ariseth, and not their Heliacal obscuration, or their inclusion in the lustre of the Sun, as _Servius_ upon this place would have it; for at that time these stars are many signs removed from that luminary. Now herein he strictly adviseth, not to begin to sow before the setting of these stars; which notwithstanding without injury to agriculture, cannot be observed in _England_; for they set unto us about the 12 of November, when our Seed-time is almost ended. And this diversity of clime and cœlestial observations, precisely observed unto certain stars and moneths, hath not only overthrown the deductions of one Nation to another, but hath perturbed the observation of festivities and statary Solemnities, even with the _Jews_ themselves. For unto them it was commanded that at their entrance into the land of _Canaan_, in the fourteenth of the first moneth (that is _Abib_ or _Nisan_ which is Spring with us) they should observe the celebration of the Passover; and on the morrow after, which is the fifteenth day, the feast of unleavened bread; and in the sixteenth of the same moneth, that they should offer the first sheaf of the harvest. Now all this was feasible and of an easie possibility in the land of _Canaan_, or latitude of _Jerusalem_; for so it is observed by several Authors in later times; and is also testified by holy Scripture in times very far before. For when the children of _Israel_ passed the river _Jordan_ [SN: Josh. 3.], it is delivered by way of parenthesis, that the river overfloweth its banks in the time of harvest; which is conceived the time wherein they passed; and it is after delivered [SN: Josh. 5.], that in the fourteenth day they celebrated the Passover: which according to the Law of _Moses_ was to be observed in the first moneth, or moneth of _Abib_.