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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44242	The Holy time of Christmas defended against non-conformists and all others its prophaners and opposers, or, A discourse shewing that a religious observation of Christmas is apostolical and worthy every good Christian		1676 (1676)	Wing H2529; ESTC R28109	8,613	14

THE HOLY TIME OF CHRISTMAS Defended Against NON-CONFORMISTS and all others its Prophaners and Opposers OR A Discourse shewing That a Religious Observation of CHRISTMAS is Apostolical and Worthy every good Christian LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLXXVI Christmas Defended against it's Prophaners UNhappy times in which we live That we should all believe that sixteen Hundred years ago a certain Man who was also God called Jesus was born in a Stable for the Salvation of Mankind and yet that there should be certain amongst us who should count it a piece of Religion not to keep Holy the Day on the which our said Great Redeemer was born O unhappy Times O cross Manners of mis-instructed Zelots Does not Reason the Light of God within us tell us that if the Consubstantial Son of the Almighty has been so Good as for our sakes to become Man cloathing himself with the Raggs of our Mortality We ought with Joy and Thanksgiving to remember so high a Favour And does not the same Reason and Experience teach us that the setting a part that particular Day as near as we can guess on which some notable Accident has happened in Memory of it does strangely help us more livelily freshly and affectionatly to commemorate the said Wonder Tell me candidly your Thoughts Should we by no other Memorial but the History of Boscobel relate to Posterity the wonderful Restauration of our Gracious Soveraign how little knowledge and how faint a Belief think you would there be all over England of that strange Wonder and all it's circumstances a thousand years hence We cannot reasonably imagin but the generality of the common People would be wholly ignorant of it and we may without rash Judgment surmize there would not want Cavilling Wits who would call in question the whole Story and for some seemingly unlikely circumstances condemn the whole Narration as fabulous or at best of very doubtful and uncertain credit So that in effect Posterity some Ages hence would have little more Belief of that undoubted History than we have now of the Fable of Guy of Warwick But let us go on as we have begun to commemorate that strange accident with a Day set a part on purpose Religiously to be observed in all the Parishes of England by publick Prayers and Sermons suited to the occasion and 't is not possible but till Dooms-day come there shall be an assured Belief and fresh Memory of it in the generality of all English Hearts Has Nature then made us so cunning for ever to keep in memory what we have a mind should never be forgotten And can you think Grace or the Holy Ghost was wanting to make the first Planters of Christianity so wise as to think upon a happy Expedient how all Generations all the World over might have a fresh Memory and assured Faith of the wonderful Nativity of their Lord and Saviour especially when the lively Memory of the said their Lord's Nativity with all it's circumstances is strangely conducing to the Salvation of the World But why do I urge the authority of Reason and Nature Did not infinit unerring Wisdom and the God of Nature use this very Means to propagate to posterity the Memory of the stupendious Wonders he wrought amidst his beloved People the Jews by the hand of his Servant Moses Read from the sixth Chapter to the fourteenth in the Book of Exodus and take notice of those strange VVonders Almighty God wrought to compel Pharaoh to let his chosen People go into the VVilderness to worship him turning all the Rivers of Egypt into Blood filling the whole Country in their very houses with Froggs c. and finally killing all their First-born both of Man and Beasts And now because a lively Memory of these VVonders to all Generations would be of admirable benefit to every Age as well to preserve in them a strong actual Faith of the true God the Author of all those Miracles as a Holy Dread of the same Divine Majesty and care to observe his Commandements Almighty God ordained that for ever that very day on which his People came out of Egypt should be Solemn and Sacred and observed with such Ceremonies as might make Posterity even see their Ancestors going out of Egypt many hundreds of years before They must kill a Lamb and eat the flesh of the same Lamb with Unleavened Bread c. in token of what their Ancestors did in like manner in Egypt and to remember the great haste in which they departed with unleavened Dough on their backs and for ever offer to Almighty God their First-born both of Man and Beasts in memory of his killing the Firstlings of the Egyptians and sparing theirs And this account they were to give of this Ceremonial observance when they should in future Generations be asked the reason of it by their Children Exod. 13. v. 14. When thy Son shall ask thee to Morrow saying What is this Thou shalt answer him in a strong hand the Lord brought us out of the Land of Egypt For when Pharaoh was hardned and would not let us goe the Lord killed all the First-born in the Land of Egypt from the First born of Man to the Firstling of Beasts therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that opens the Womb of the Masculine Sex and all the First-begotten of my Sons I redeem Such a provision as this made it utterly impossible to the Jews ever to forget for all Generations what the Almighty had wrought in favour of their Ancestors in bringing them out of Egypt And he must be out of his VVits or devoid of common sense that could question a matter of Fact so solemnly immemorially commemorated and so particularly recounted in a Book which a whole People time out of mind has venerated as a most true History For had the Rivers of Egypt not been turned into Blood the like I say of the rest of the VVonders no man could have had the impudence to have committed to VVriting as most certain Truths what thousands must necessarily have known to be most notorious Lyes Much less could any one have prevailed with many thousands in a most serious and solemn manner to commemorate yearly with thanksgiving to God what they all knew had never happened And can it now enter into any Christian mans heart to think that Moses was more faithful and careful to preserve in the Memories of the Jews the VVonders the Almighty wrought to deliver that particular People from under the Bondage of Pharaoh Then was Jesus Christ and his Apostles to keep in the fresh memory of all Christians the stupendious VVonders wrought to deliver the whole VVorld from the Eternal slavery of Sin and Devils Let it be Four of our Lords followers have left written Memorials of his Birth Life Death Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven But had all his first Missionaries to the VVorld ordained in every County converted by them to the Christian Faith that they should yearly spend the Day