of your gladnesse] In the feast after your peace-offerings, when ye rejoyce for any blessings bestowed, or for any perill or plague removed: It was blowne also at times of present or imminent misery, for solemne humiliation, Joel 2. 15. beginning] In the new Moone, Psalms 81:3. rather in the new, then at the full Moone, lest it should be taken to be an honour to the Moone, because it is then most glorious; and because they counted their moneths from the first day of the new Moon, when looking backe upon the moneth past, they might be remembred of precedent favours from God, or of their offences against God, and so admonished of thankfulnesse, and repentance; and looking forward to the new recourse of time, might by prayers to God, and watchfulnesse over themselves, be comfortably carried on from one new Moone to another.