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^ Yet this Deficiency of an Hour andJ ^iU cause the New and Full Moons to■^Ppen s 0 much sooner each Cycle in thej^Vens than by this Reckoning, and thisYears amounts to a whole Day;4 therefore, at this Time, they happenfive Days sooner than they shouldtjj* b y the Rule settled by the Nicene Coun-l er b ° r finding the same by th ^Golden Num-the Nature and Use of which are to'Dderstood as follows.

Taking any Year for the First of^ Cycle, the Ancients observed all the[^ S on which the New Moons happened^ 0ll gh the Year, and against each such^ey pl ace d the Number i ; in the 2de C * r of the Cycle they did the like, and to^ P Day of the New-Moon annexed the^ u Qiber 2. In like Manner to every Newf^^Day in the zd Year of the Cycle they^ Dined the Number z; and so on, thro*Years of the Cycle. This being doneh ? Ue Q y cle -> the same Numbers were fittedt ^^ondar to shew the New Moons in^ 1 Year of any future Cycle ; and, upon^ Cc °Unt of this their excellent Use, theyin Gold, and were therefore calledlive} ^°^ en Numbers for those Years respec-

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