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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67639	The vindication of the solemnity of the nativity of Christ shewing the grounds upon which the observation of that and other festivalls is justified in the church : with a short answer to certaine quaeries propounded by one Ioseph Heming in oppositon to the aforesayd practise of the church / by Thomas Warmstry ...	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1648 (1648)	Wing W893; ESTC R12863	19,965	29

THE VINDICATION of the SOLEMNITY Of the Nativity of CHRIST Shewing the grounds upon which the Observation of that and other Festivalls is justified in the Church With a short Answer to certaine Quaeries propounded by one Ioseph Heming in opposition to the aforesayd practise of the Church By Thomas Warmstry D. D. Let us follow after things that make for peace and things wherewith we may edifie one another Rom. 14.19 Vnto you is borne this day a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. Luk. 1.11 Printed in the Yeare 1648. The Vindication of the solemnity of the Nativity of Christ c. BEfore I come to answer these Queries that I may make way for the clearing of mens judgements I shall briefely lay downe the grounds upon which the observation of this and other Festivalls is justified in the Church which are these First It is a thing not onely lawfull but justly due unto God that he should be praised publickly and solemnely for this and other such like great blessings as he hath bestowed upon the Church by Christ and that to this end the memory of them should be preserved in the Church Secondly That for these ends the Observation of a yearely day of memoriall is a meanes conducible in it selfe and approved by God in Scripture who made use thereof among the ancient people to summon and stirre them up thereby to the praise of God for those great blessings and deliverances which were bestowed upon them Thirdly That the appoyntment of such dayes being conducible to those ends before named which are Scripture ends hath so far its ground in the word of God Fourthly That the Church hath a power from God to promote those ends which are commanded in his word by all kinde of meanes which are not contrary thereunto and such a mean●● is this appointment of dayes which hath been with approbation practised by the Church even in the time of the Jewish Bondage in the designation and ordaining of Festivalls yearely to be observed which were not enjoyned by any expresse command of God as is cleerely to be seene in the institution of the Feast of Purim Esther 9.17 c. and of the Feast of Dedication Machab. 4.59 honoured and confirmed by the presence of our Saviour Job 10.22.23 Fiftly That this power in the Church is though unobservedly yet in cleare consequence is confirmed by divers arguments from the allowance and practise of Adversaries themselves As first looke what power private Ministers challenge that they must much more allow the Church But they challenge a power to appoynt times for publick worship which are not expresly commanded by God as upon Lecture dayes E go And there can be no reason why hey should have more power to appoynt an houre or more in a day then the Church a day or more in a ye are Secondly There is as good reason that the Church should appoynt dayes of f●●sting which are not commanded by God as d●yes of fasting which are not commanded by God since the end of the former is as exceptable to God and more excellent then the latter and hath no plea against it that lyes not equally against the latter Thirdly That there is much more reason that the Church should appoynt solemne dayes for praising God for Christ and for spirituall blessi●●● then for remporall ones But the latter is allowed and pract●●ed by the Parliament as may appeare by the late Ordinance for the observation of the fifth of November in memoriall of the deliverance of that very State Church and Religion 〈◊〉 an outward destruction which themselves now persecute by the Army in appoynting dayes of Thanksgiving for their bloody Victories other their brothren in an impious way Therefore the former viz. the appoynement of solemne dayes for greater and sp●●●tuall blessings cannot reasonably be condemned by them Six●ly This appoyntment of dayes to the purposes aforesayd is no● 〈…〉 as no●●●ying in oposi●ion to any Law of G●● 〈◊〉 of excellent use and benefit to Gods people 1. To preserve and 〈◊〉 the memory of these great blessings 2. To stir up the people to the duties or praise 3. To call upon the Ministers in their severall charges to study and handle those great and necessary parts of Christian knowledge 4. To give so many opportunities for the assembling of the people to holy duties 5. For the rendring of those great and mysticall blessings familiar unto the people thereby that being fulfilled in this sense that the Psalmist speaketh in the 9. Psal One day telleth another and one night certifieth another there is neither speech nor language yet their speeches are heard among them Thus it comes to passe that the Calender of the Church ●he Cycle of the Festivalls presents is as it were an easie and familiar Catechisme unto the people and doth instruct them almost whether they wil or no in the apprehensions or those high points and comfortable motions of the conception na●ivity Circumcision Manifestation to the Gentiles presentation in the Temple of the death and passion resurrection Ascention of Christ into Heaven and of the sending of the holy Ghost to bring home the fruit of all which are as so many parts of the holy Antheme of the Church the Epiphon●ma or cl●se of all which is in the Festivall of the T●inity which is unto all the rest as the Glory be to the Father to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost c. at the close of a Psalme calling upon us to give honour and praise unto the Trinity for all those incomprehensible blessings and benefits whereby the worke of mans redemption is perfected and brought home unto us This wisedome and piety of the Church is not understood nor considered by those heady and haire brain'd people that waigh things in the corrupt scales of o● their owne contradictory and antecclesiasticall spirit but they that are sober and peaceable discover and admire it and blesse God for it and do foresee with sad hearts the designes of Satan moving against this Church of ours by the abolishing of these and and other usefull Ordinances and customes to blot out by degrees the memory of the great and inestimable blessings of God in Christ and to open the doore to prophanesse and infidelity to the former benefits may be added the mercy that doth hereby accrue unto servants and the poore beasts in a relaxation of their labours upon such daies the incitements that they administer unto workes of charity neighbourhood and hospitality things very pleasing in the sight of God howsoever disliked by those of this age that place religion in cruelty Faction and Sedition and the nurcery and supply that is thereby suggested unto the exercise of our spirituall joy and delight in God and his goodnesse Lastly The authority of the Church both ancient and modern both generall and of this particular Church comming upon us with all these warrants and conveniences to serve the ends of God and Scripture and strengthened by the