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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	aaron_n	abraham_n	moses_n	69	3	6.0244	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11011	Lectures vpon the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians. Preached by that faithfull seruant of God, Maister Robert Rollok, sometime rector of the Vniuersitie of Edenburgh	Rollock, Robert, 1555?-1599.; Holland, Henry, 1555 or 6-1603.	1603 (1603)	STC 21282; ESTC S116223	383,986	492

here are busie about meates holy dayes of their owne making and such like from the which the Lord hath freed vs To impose lawes necessarie to be kept as they speake vnder the paine of saluation and damnation as the eating of flesh on friday O vaine foole As for things necessarie to saluation and the worship of God Papists passe ouer them as friuolous They will not condemne an adulterer Behold their religion brethren I thinke ye desire that I should speake some thing of the obseruation of daies and difference of meates Seeing this hath been handled in the doctrine of the Catechisme it is not my purpose to insist vpon it Yet I shall shew you mine opinion as plainly and briefly as I may possibly agreeing with the godly and learned in these daies Ye will aske is there any difference betweene meates what shall we thinke of them that wil abstaine from meates I answere if for policies sake because of any politike law and in regard of a common-weale thou abstainest from meates Law concerning meates thou doest well As on the contrary thou doest euill if thou abstaine not for the Magistrate is to be obeyed for conscience sake Rom. 13. 5. If againe thou abstaine from meates and vse not these bodily exercises that by abstinence and fasting thou maist be the better helped in the exercises spirituall as prayer and repentance whether there be a constitution of the Church to that effect or whether of thy owne motion thou doest it thou doest well But if thou begin to place godlines True fast in eating and not eating putting a necessitie in them and that with the opinion of merit that thou deseruest this or that as the Papists speake away with thee and thy fasting If thou be of that opinion fast and it were fortie daies together thou art an Idolater and all thine exercise stinkes in the nose Superstitious fast of God yea though thou doest fast till thy bones and skinne came together Now as concerning daies what shall wee thinke of other countries that yet keepe holy daies I shall tell you the holy daies as they call them they are either commaunded by God or instituted by man God is the author of them or els man The daies commaunded by God in old time before Christ came they were many as ye may reade in the bookes of Moses but as touching the daies inioyned by God to be kept of vs after the comming of Christ reade the Scripture from the beginning to the end and yet thou shalt finde but one day onely inioyned thee to be kept and that by the law Morall and this day is the Lords Sabboth and in keeping of this standeth the worshipping of God So thou that keepest the seuenth day thou doest the thing that is acceptable with God and thou that doest it not thou highly offendest God Then concerning the daies instituted by man whether of old or of late they are different Some were instituted by man for the honour of vulgar and common Saints of some of the which it may be doubted whether they were Saints or no. Some were instituted for the honour of the Apostles indeede they were Saints yea euen although the Pope would not canonize thē Some were instituted for the honour of God and Iesus Christ Now to go thorow as for the holy daies appointed for y e honor of common Saints I say this and it is the opinion of the learned they are Idolatrous thou that doest run to the bones of Popish holy daies this Saint or that Saint kissest it and thou wotest not whether it was the bone of a murtherer a theefe or an oppressour or of a Saint And therefore the reformed Churches in Europe haue abolished these daies As for the daies instituted to the honour of the Apostles indeed it is true y e reformed Churches agree not vniformally in this point Some keepe these daies and yet without perill of Idolatrie because they keepe the daies only and yet without dedication of seruice to the Saints But certainly will ye see the matter as it is It wanteth not superstition if the Apostles were neuer so holy to dedicate a day to them and seruice for them I wil not bring in more reasons yet this I say to celebrate a feast to any man whether dead or liuing with diuine worship to the same it is Idolatrie for the celebration of a feast with seruice adioyned thereto is a kinde of worship that pertaineth to God onely Reade the Lawe and ye shall finde this Now will ye haue Gods mind in this matter When Moses was dead God taketh his bones and caused them to be buried secretly that not one of the people should know where they were laid And wherefore doth he it To preuent the superstition of the people that they should not worship them and celebrate a feast to them He knew the vanitie of mans braine he will make a God of a dead bone Blessed art thou that art restrained by the word of God Will ye haue the example of the Iewes reade where euer they made a feast to Moses or Aaron or old Abraham And if any should haue a festiuall day they should haue had it but I neither read nor heard tell that they got any Come to the Apostles themselues reade the Acts when that idolatrous people would haue worshipped them they rent their cloathes for griefe of their superstition And this day I trow they should riue their cloathes if they saw and vnderstood the superstition and worship that is done to them and if Paul had accepted of thy feast O vaine Papist hee should not abide in heauen one moment for that were to the dishonour of God they giue thee no thanke if they wist of it they would not faile to rent their cloathes and bodies both and to curse thee to thy face for taking the honour that is due to God and to giue it them So concerning this it is a peece of superstition and idolatrie to celebrate a feast and appoint diuine seruice to the Apostles I will except none of them no not Mary would not stand in heauen if she accepted of that honour that thou giuest her Fie on these vaine Papists they rent Gods cloake asunder and would put it on another fie on them and their stinking idolatrous daies To come to the next word In it hee subioynes another argument of his admonition that none should condemne them of these ceremonies and it is taken from the nature and definition of all the old Ceremonies What are they all but shadowes and therefore seeing they are vanishing things let no man condemne you vpon trifles let no man find fault with you nor thrust them vpon you as though they were necessarie poynts to the seruice of God Then no man should be condemned for a shadow a vanishing and fickle thing if thou werst a King doe it not there is no man so giuen ouer into the hands of men It was not giuen