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A79487 A Christian plea against Chrismass and an out-cry against Chrismas-mongers. Chidley, Samuel. 1656 (1656) Wing C3834C; ESTC R173825 3,966 8

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A Christian PLEA Against CHRISMASS AND An OUT-CRY against Chrismas-mongers 2 COR. 5.16 Though we have known Christ after the flesh yet now henceforth know we him no more TITUS 1.16 Their minde and conscience is defiled They profess they know God but in their works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and to every good work reprobate 1 COR. 10.7 Neither be ye idolaters as were some of them as it is written The people sate down to eat and drink and rose up to play LONDON Printed for the Author 1656. To his Highness OLIVER Lord Protector AND To the Parliament of England c. O ye Assembly of Mortal Gods I Formerly presented you with a Treatise against Idols Temples Here is a Tractate against Idols Times It 's in your power to demolish the Idols Temples and abolish the idolatrous Times and to suppress the prophane crew of Chrismas-mongers and expel such unclean Spirits from your coasts and destroy the names of the Idols out of these places The Antichristian sect of Chrismas-mongers is of many hundred years standing and to be rooted out especially considering that it hath over-spread the Nations like a Gangrene and this their way is their folly yet their posterity approve of their sayings Psal 49.13 And although their fore-fathers have inherited lying vanities yet they will not be wiser But you Legislators have a restraining power over them and therefore I am bold humbly to present these lines following unto you who are the Heads of the People and leave you to do as God shall perswade your hearts and so rest Your Friend and servant Samuel Chidley A Christian Plea against Chrismass SInce the Mass is put down by the Supream Authority and that Christ is no Masse-monger It concerneth you Noble Senators not to keep Christs Masse falsely so called for it is Antichrists Masse and I think then it will appear that there are many Antichrists and more Papists besides Roman Catholiques for they are Papists and Masse-mongers who solemnize the Masse or swear by it as the Israelites of old by the sin of Samaria or keep Chrismas vulgarly so called though they would be all counted Protestants If you say it 's Christs time tide or birth-day Wot you not that Christs tide or time is the first day of every week which well-informed Christians observe from Even to Even two and fifty times a year still keeping in Remembrance the Lords birth death and Resurrection whereas Chrissmas comes but once a year as say the Masse-mongers themselves onely there is ten dayes difference between the old Style and the New the Hollanders observing it ten dayes before the English for Christ indeed foreseeing the vanity of the Gentiles hath hid the day of his birth so that all the Christians in the world cannot finde that time more then the Jews the place of Moses Sepulchre Nevertheless the supream Sabbath even the Lords day the first day of the week Joh. 20.1 rightly called by the papists the Dominical day in the Rhemish Testament Rev. 1.10 is known throughout all Christendome It is the day which God hath made Psal 118.24 a holy convocation Lev. 23.7 a day of better acceptation v. 11. the day of Christs resurrection Mar. 16. and of the holy Ghosts descension Act. 2. as is shew'd by Chidley in his book called the Evening Star this is the day wherein we are called to rejoyce Psal 118.24 one day of solemn assembly in the Lords Courts is better then a thousand Psal 84.10 a thousand then a thousand thousand And although our enemies and the Hollanders keep their Chrismas-day more solemnly then the Lords day and profane the sacred time which God hath so highly honoured yet the Apostle of the Gentiles who had the minde of Christ saith Henceforth know we no man after the flesh yea though we have known Christ after the flesh yet now henceforth know we him no more 2 Cor. 5 16. For if the day of Christs death were better then the day of his birth how much more then his resurrection St. Paul saith If Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain And again he saith If Christ be not raised your Faith is vain ye are yet in your sins 1 Cor. 15.14 17. Why then do the fleshly-minded Gentiles feed themselves with such fancies of their own imaginations and reproach others that will not dance with them about such Calves of invention A foolish people Who hath bewitched them For they have not the true Christ neither do they serve him but their own bellies For Christ was not as they set him forth to be He was no Mass-monger or belly God No drunkard He wanted neither cards dice nor Tables to play with to pass away the time nor Lord of mis-rule to take his place He needed no new Games to make him merry no Holly or Ivy to dress his windowes nor Misletow to conjure his lovers nor other toyes to please his fancy or blindfolded fools or Hot Cockle payers to make him sport But was born in poverty lived in affliction and died in distress A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief as a worm and no man Yet not without hope for God had caused him to trust in him from his mothers womb And though he was crucified through weakness yet was he raised up with power and made an high Priest not after the law of a carnal Commandment but after the power of an endless life Therefore it is humbly desired by the well-affected That the Parliament would with great severity punish the profanation of the Lords day decree That no Chrismass-day or such like fooleries be set in the Almanacks or observed That the names of Idols may be no more in remembrance throughout the Dominions of the Common-wealth of England And it 's also humbly desired that the High and Mighty States of England would not adjourne but sit all the idle time called Chrismass in direct opposition to the vanity of the Gentiles who profess that they know God but in works deny him Nevertheless it is in your Honours liberty So that if any one bid you to a Feast and ye be disposed to go you may eat that which is set before you asking no question for conscience sake But if any one say unto you This or that is offered in sacrifice to an Idol as the Mass is an abominable Idol eat not for his sake that shewed it and for conscience sake but rather feed with bread and water Consider Daniel and his fellowes whose health and countenance in holy abstinence was well and their wisdome transcending all the wisest men in Babylon and God delivered them from all their enemies and he is able to deliver us If we will seek for experience the right way we shall finde much of God in Jesus Christ whilst Mass-mongers feed their bodies with Anti Chrismass-Pies and famish their souls and perish eternally being without Christ the bread of life which came