And therefore it is no wonder, what is related by _Luke_, that the Disciples upon the _Deuteroproton_, as they passed by, plucked the ears of corn. [SN: _What the Sabbaton Deuteroproton_, Luk. 6. _was_.] For the _Deuteroproton_ or second first Sabbath, was the first Sabbath after the Deutera or second of the Passover, which was the sixteenth of _Nisan_ or _Abib_. And this is also evidenced from the received construction of the first and latter rain. I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain. [SN: _Deut._ 11.] For the first rain fell upon the seed-time about October, and was to make the seed to root, the latter was to fill the ear, and fell in Abib or March, the first moneth: according as is expressed. [SN: _Joel_ 2.] And he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain in the first moneth; that is the moneth of _Abib_ wherein the Passover was observed. This was the Law of _Moses_, and this in the land of _Canaan_ was well observed, according to the first institution: but since their dispersion and habitation in Countries, whose constitutions admit not such tempestivity of harvests; and many not before the latter end of Summer; notwithstanding the advantage of their Lunary account, and intercalary moneth Veader, affixed unto the beginning of the year, there will be found a great disparity in their observations; nor can they strictly and at the same season with their forefathers observe the commands of God. To add yet further, those Geoponical rules and precepts of Agriculture which are delivered by divers Authors, are not to be generally received; but respectively understood unto climes whereto they are determined. For whereas one adviseth to sow this or that grain at one season, a second to set this or that at another, it must be conceived relatively, and every Nation must have its Country Farm; for herein we may observe a manifest and visible difference, not only in the seasons of harvest, but in the grains themselves. For with us Barley-harvest is made after wheat-harvest, but with the _Israelites_ and _Ægyptians_ it was otherwise; so is it expressed by way of priority, _Ruth_ the 2. So _Ruth_ kept fast by the maidens of _Boaz_ to glean unto the end of Barley-harvest and of Wheat-harvest, which in the plague of hayl in _Ægypt_ is more plainly delivered, _Exod._ 9. And the Flax and the Barley were smitten, for the Barley was in the ear and the Flax was bolled, but the Wheat and the Rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up.