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A40181 An exhortation to all that profess themselves Christians and say the scripture is their rule for their life doctrine and practice / by George Fox. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1680 (1680) Wing F1816; ESTC R30369 10,101 20

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AN EXHORTATION To all them that Profess Themselves CHRISTIANS AND SAY The Scripture is their Rule for their Life Doctrine and Practice By George Fox Christ is become of none effect unto you Whosoever of you are justified by the Law are fallen from Grace Gal. 5.4 How turn you again to the Weak beggarly Elements whereunto you desire again to be in Bondage ye observe Dayes and Moneths and Times and Years I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you Labour in vain Gal. 4.9 10 11. The Bereans were Noble and searched the Scriptures daily to see whether those things were so as the Apostles preached Acts 17.11 Let no man judge you therefore in Meats or Drinks or in Respect of an Holy Day or of New Moons or of the Sabbath-dayes which are a Shadow of things to come but the Body is of Christ Col. 2.16 17. Printed in the Year 1680. Here you may see in this little Book as followeth First THat none of the Holy Men of God in the Old Covenant did call an Outward Tabernacle or Temple or Synagogue after the Name of any Saint 2dly And that also in the New Covenant Christ and the Apostles did not call any of their Meeting-houses or Meeting-places after their Own Names or other Saints Names 3dly That Christ and the Apostles did not set up Holy Dayes and their own Birth-Dayes and other Saints Dayes and set up Courts and compelled people to keep them 4thly And likewise How Christ and his Apostles did not call an Outward House a Church and Congregation 5thly How that neither Christ nor the Apostles nor the Holy Men of God did give the many Names to the Moneths and Dayes as them called Christians do now 6thly And also How that a Curse was pronounced upon them that did not bring their Tythes to the Store-house in the Old Covenant And how the Priests and Teachers that call themselves Christians have exceeded that Curse in the Old Covenant in casting many into Prison and keeping some therein till Death because they could not give them Tythes and Maintenance in the New Covenant knowing that Christ hath changed the Priesthood and the Law and Commandment that gave Tythes and took Tythes and said to his Disciples Freely you have received Freely give 7thly And likewise concerning such as say The Scripture is their Rule to walk by but how contrary to Scripture they have walked An Exhortation to all them that Profess themselves Christians and say The Scripture is their Rule for their Life Doctrine and Practice First WHERE did ever any in the old World before the Flood or from Noah's time to Abraham Isaac and Jacob keep and observe the Dayes of their Birth or the Dayes of the Death of their Progenitors and call them Holy Dayes Or where did any in the dayes of the old Covenant or the old Testament unto the dayes of Christ throughout all the Fathers and Prophets and Holy Men of God keep either the dayes of the Birth or Death of any of the Patriarchs Fathers or Prophets and call them Holy Days or had their Courts or Paritors to trouble People for working upon the dayes of the Birth or dayes of the Death of any of the Patriarchs or Fathers call them Holy dayes But on the contrary is it not said and commanded by the Lord Six Days shalt thou labour and do all thy Work that thou hast to do Ex. 20.9 And in Ex. 23. it is said Six Dayes shalt thou do thy Work And doth not the Scripture say in many other places There are six days wherein men ought to work c And now if you do profess the new Covenant and that you are Christians and though there was no such Practice of Observing the dayes of the Birth or Death of any of the Fathers or Prophets either in the old World before the Flood or after in the days of the old Covenant nor in the dayes of Christ and the Apostles in the new Covenant then how can you that profess the Scriptures to be your Rule for Life and Doctrine prove your Practice for these things by the Scriptures c. For where did ever Christ or the Apostles command that their Followers should observe and keep the days of their Birth or the days of their Death or bid to call them Holy Dayes and set up Courts or Paritors to summon people into their Courts fine them or imprison them for working upon any of the dayes of their Birth or of their Death Or did Christ ever give a Command that any should keep the day of his Birth or Ascension or the day of the Purification of Mary his Mother Or did Christ give a Command that any should observe and keep the day of John Baptist's Birth or Death Or did the Apostles ever give a Command that any should keep the dayes of Steven or James's Birth or Death who were Martyred in their dayes before their decease Or did ever Peter and John and Matthew and Luke and Mark and the rest of the Apostles give a Command that the Christians after their decease should observe their dayes of Birth or Death Or did ever Paul write to Timothy or Titus which were Elders or Bishops and the rest of the Apostles and Elders in all their Councels which gave out their Decrees to the Churches in all their Decrees and Councils did they give forth any such Order Command or Decree in all their Epistles and Writings in the Bible that any should observe and keep the dayes of the Birth or Death of any of the Apostles or Disciples or Evangelists or Pastors and Teachers and to call them Holy Days and set up Courts and cite all that should work on those dayes and that they should be called after the Names of the Saints or Prophets and Apostles and that they should be summoned to their Courts and there fined for not observing and keeping the dayes of their Birth or Death Nay is not God and Christ more dishonoured upon those dayes which you call Holy Dayes than any other dayes of the Week by Loosness Drunkenness Vain Sports Playes Pleasures Wantonness and almost all manner of Evil committed upon those dayes which you call Holy Dayes And the Apostle saith to the Galatians But now after that ye have known God or rather are known of God how turn you again to the Weak and Beggarly Elements whereunto ye desire again to be in Bondage ye observe Dayes and Moneths and Times and Years I am afraid lest I have bestowed upon you Labour in vain c. Now is not the Labour of the Apostles bestowed in vain upon you who run into the Observation of Dayes Times Moneths and Years and not only so but set up your Courts and Paritors to cite and summon People to them that do not observe your Holy Dayes as you call them and trouble and fine people about it rather to get Money from them than to ●ring them into Truth And you say and set forth