Selected quad for the lemma: day_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	lord_n	thursday_n	wednesday_n	4,612	5	13.3921	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20037	That the pope is that Antichrist: and An answer to the obiections of sectaries, which condemne this Church of England Two notably learned and profitable treatises or sermons vpon the 19. verse of the 19. chapter of the Reuelation: the first whereof was preached at Paules Crosse in Easter terme last, the other purposed also to haue bene there preached. By Lawrence Deios Bachelor in Diuinitie, and minister of Gods holy word.	Deios, Laurence, d. 1618.	1590 (1590)	STC 6475; ESTC S118248	84,851	202

those things to Gods worshippe which haue bene abused by idolaters The spoiles of Egypt of Iericho the vessels of the tēple abused by the Babylonians were againe applied to Gods seruice If we vsed any thing wherein the Pope sheweth himselfe to bee the beast as his worshipping of dead Saints and images and the Masse and such like then we might be sayde to beare his image or his marke But in the prayers that wee haue there is no part no limme no clawe of that beast The people of God must not fashion themselues like the Cananites nor the heathen about them in any thing wherein they are idolatrous and impious but in that they haue as men Gods people may be like them As they are Papists we will not be like the Romanes but as they are Christians we may be like them In taking good things from them wee take not any thing that was theirs but we take to our selues that which was our owne We must not vse the Bible nor the name of God or Christ nor Baptisme if we will haue nothing that they had The fift and last thing for which in generall they cast away the booke is for that it mainteineth a reading ministery A booke of common prayer is no cause of a reading Minister The chiefest cause is that preachers will not be had nor can be made in this slender maintenance of sundry Churches the next cause is the couetousnes and wicked dealing of many godlesse patrones and a third cause is this contention and strife that is raised in the Church This hath cast out manie that were in and hath driuen backe manie that were comming on this hath caused diuerse to forsake the studie of Diuinitie and learning altogether But the booke of Common prayer is no cause of it for the preachers with vs vse it and where all are preachers there is a set forme obserued and is necessarie to bee had of all well ordered Churches These are the thinges for which they condemne the booke in generall Now in particular they trifle about many things As first about the holy dayes whereof some they call double Idoles and double feastes Hallowmas Christmas Candlemas Easter Whitsonday Trinitie sonday Then there are the Ladies dayes Saints dayes with the Eues fast and feastes and deuised worship vnto them Last of all they reckon the celebrating of dayes to Angels as Michael and the naming of manie Archangels This cauil will easily be answered For first wee make not the Calender anie parte of Gods worship Wherefore it is vaine to accuse vs of a false worship by that when wee put no parte of his worshippe in it That distinguisheth the times and directeth vs to the Psalmes and Scriptures but is no parte of Gods seruice no more then a marke by the waye to direct them which goe by is a parte of the way The names maye bee somewhat offensiue where Masse is added but in the olde tongue from whence our language came long before the corruptions of the Masse were crept in the worde signified nothing but Tide or some solemn time and the common people haue vsed to speake so and the name Missa from whence that is supposed to come is read in ancient fathers in a good and a godly meaning yea and in most Calenders those names are reformed The Saintes wee worship not nor Angels neither with prayers fastes nor any such thing But God wee worship and take occasion at such times when wee call to minde them by whome the worship of God hath bin spred throughout the world The people of God haue vsed and appointed moe dayes to publike prayer and Gods seruice then the Sabbath Hester Euang. Ioan. without controlement as the feast of Purim and of Dedication Last of all those dayes except the natiuitie of our Sauiour and those that fall vsually on the Lordes day are in most places growne to be equall with the rest Our people are readie ynough to make no difference of dayes in that behalfe The next thing that commeth vnder their censure are the fastes Lent imber dayes ash-Ashwednesday Maundie Holy thursday Goodfridaye and the rest Two thinges are regarded of the Churche in distinguishing these times from others First a time to bee obserued of all for the vse of fishe and refraining from flesh that nauigation might bee maintained and that seeing wee may haue prouision of all kinde of foode wee doe not continuallie vse onelie one to which wee are most giuen to the decaie thereof and hinderance of the other Secondly that there maie bee vsed also a moderate abstinence not to the honour of Saintes nor as though there were anie worshippe of God in it of it selfe but that our bodies maye bee kept vnder and the minde might bee made the fitter to serue the Lorde If all those dayes and others were vsed in a whole or halfe abstinence it were better for mens bodies and soules and for the commonwealth then it is The superstition and merite in such thinges is condemned but either a ciuile or holie vse to the better ordering of our bodies and affections of none that are wise can be mislyked A third matter of reprehension is as they call it a blasphemous abuse of scriptures shredding and rending them from their natural sense and true vse to bend and apply them to the Idole feastes This accusation is both foolish and impudent If they thinke as it seemes they doe that it is not lawfull to print or reade by it selfe some portion of the scripture seuered frō the rest of the whole body it is foolish for what offence can there be in making choise of some parte for instruction seeing the bodie is left whole notwithstanding And to say they are turned from their true sense it is impudent for in the same words meaning are they set downe in the Communion booke as they are in the bodie of the scripture neither doe we apply them to the feastes but to our selues to be instructed by them The fourth crime they set downe in these wordes Abominable Collectes ouer for and to the dead What can bee spoken more spitefull and shamelesse We praye neither for the dead nor to the dead wee praye for our selues at the buriall of the dead In the fist place about Baptisme and that which pertaineth to it they finde many faults They saye it is corrupted with the signe of the crosse with godfathers and godmothers with the Fonte with vnlawfull and vnpossible vowes of gossips to these they ioyne purification or churching of women with their offerings hastie baptisme by Midwiues bishopping and second baptisme by these thinges they iudge that baptisme is corrupted But why should the signe of the crosse corrupt it Is it so odious to expresse the figure of that whereon Christ dyed without opinion of adding grace without giuing any worship to it but onely for remembrance there is none impietie it it And what impossible vowe doe the godfathers and godmothers make They