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A47636	The keeping of holy days recommended in a sermon preached at Hadham before the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God, Henry, Lord Bishop of London, &c. at his Lordships late conference with his clergy there / by Thomas Leigh ...	Leigh, Thomas, 1633 or 4-1686.	1684 (1684)	Wing L1021; ESTC R13950	18,956	38

Lord and of his Christ Shall the Founders of small Guilds and Fraternities be honour'd with yearly Celebrities in every City and Country they that only gave their temporal Goods which they could not long keep and shall those great Hero's the Founders of the Ancientest Largest and most Noble Society whereof we all boast to be Members that resisted unto Blood and counted not their lives dear be remembr'd once in the year to the honor of God and good Edification of his People which are the two great ends of all Religion and the ends of all the Festival Solemnities which our Church hath thought good to observe which I will but shortly speak to because out of place First For the Honor of God It is requisite in order to the preserving of a due sense of God upon our minds that such days as these should often recurre There is a great deal of secret Atheism lurks in mens hearts and would grow more rampant in their lives were not such days as these stated and fix'd to put some stop to their Mad Careir And doubtless if they were duly observ'd and the horrid deaths of those stout Champions often inculcated and well consider'd on the Religion for which they suffered would appear more true and excellent and useful than vain Scepticks now think it and the neglect thereof more dangerous It hath been observed by judicious Travellours that were it not for the keeping of some Holy days the Christian Religion would be in a manner lost among the poor Greeks and others under the Turkish Dominions and I am afraid even among us who should know better were not times as well as places set apart for Divine Worship the common People would soon Heathenise and those that seem now of sprucer Wits herd among the Vulgar Common experience tells us what is left to every body is done by no body and what to be done at any time is done at no time and what to be done any where is done no where Wherefore the Honor of God is concern'd in keeping up those days that still remain and restoring those that are almost lost Secondly It is also for the good of man not only upon the account of what hath been already said but this also that he may have frequent opportunities of retiring out of the hurry and tumult of the World of bethinking himself and considering what he is and ought to be and hopes to be of what our Lord hath done for him and what he expects from him There is need of such breathing times as these or else men would be quite overwhelm'd with the cares of this World or habituated in sin past all hopes of recovery Sixthly and Lastly Upon this Ground of ordaining Holy-days because God hath made them signal by some extraordinary benefit then conferr'd I think we may soon answer several of those little Objections that us'd to be made against them As 1. Why no days for Abraham and David and Samuel or any of the goodly Fellowship of the Prophets as well as for the Glorious company of the Apostles c. Why Because though they were excellent Persons in their times and are still great examples of Virtue to us yet they were not could not be any ways instrumental to the Publication and Propagation of that Gospel upon which we ground our Faith and Salvation and from which as from the beginning of the World we date all our actions and all our concerns The Prophets Preached for the most part to the Jews and few of them were Martyrs and they that were suffer'd in a less noble cause and of less concern to the World 2. When they say the Great Michael and all the Angels are Crowded into one day who still continue to be instrumental to our Salvation and almost every one of the Apostles hath his distinct day of commemoration although their Ministry was soon over which seems to be no fair distribution It is soon Answer'd That the Ministration of Angels is invisible and we can fix no particulars upon them but such as are rehearsed upon the greater Festivals of our Lords Incarnation Resurrection Ascension c. That they did not could not suffer Martyrdom as all the Saints did whose days are kept and 't was their Martyrdom that Crown'd both them and the days that bear their names whereon our Lord inabled them to meet death in the Face though arm'd with utmost Rage and Malice and verified and magnified the Christian Cause thereby This was the Lords doing and not theirs He made the days and not they and we keep them to his Glory and not theirs And therefore when they farther object the Sunday collect gives place to that of the Saints Philip and James are feign to share one day between them as also Simon and Jude and the like they run upon a fond mistake as if we did Worship to any of them upon those days which they could not surely have done had they read the Collects proper for those days It is high time I should now say something to the second part of my Text how a Holy-day is to be kept We will rejoyce and be glad therein This is that which distinguishes a Fast from a Feast and makes the latter more Holy than the former according to that in Nehem. 8.9 This day is Holy unto the Lord your God mourn not nor weep and v. 10. Go your way eat the fat and drink the sweet and send portions for them for whom nothing is prepar'd for this day is Holy unto the Lord neither be ye sorry for the joy of the Lord is your strength God makes days of joy and they are Holy to Him we cannot so truly say of a day of mourning of a Fast-day This is the day which the Lord hath made for indeed Man made it by his sin and on it therefore it is his business to bewail his sins and deprecate the Judgments felt or fear'd upon their account But when God hath made a day to our hands a day signal for some great mercy let us rejoyce and be glad therein Rejoyce and be glad therein but how Not in Riot and excess and making provision for the Flesh to fulfill the Lusts thereof No but let us first give Publick thanks to God for the Mercy of the day and then if we have opportunity let us partake of that Holy Feast of the Body and Blood a Feast which he hath not only instituted but wonderfully made of himself a Feast whose name and end is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thanksgiving What should we render to the Lord for all his benefits towards us but according to our Psalmist Ps 116.12 Take the Cup of Salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. And then when we have made a difference between the Holy and the Common day by a more plentiful Table testifie our farther thankfulness and due resentment of Gods Mercy by works of Mercy and Charity Fasting doth stir up Choler the hungry are