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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03475	Panēguris D. Elizabethæ, Dei gratiâ Angliæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ Reginæ. A sermon preached at Pauls in London the 17. of November ann. Dom. 1599. ... and augmented in those places wherein, for the shortnes of the time, it could not there be then delivered. VVherevnto is adioyned an apologeticall discourse, whereby all such sclanderous accusations are fully and faithfully confuted, wherewith the honour of this realme hath beene vncharitably traduced by some of our adversaries in forraine nations, and at home, for observing the 17. of November yeerely in the forme of an holy-day ... By Thomas Holland, Doctor of Divinity, & her Highnes professor thereof in her Vniversity of Oxford.; Panēguris D. Elizabethae, Dei gratiâ Angliae Reginae	Holland, Thomas, 1539-1612.	1601 (1601)	STC 13597; ESTC S104142	118,907	169

the festivals of the old testament are specified or any effectuall insinuation of thē ever Gods authority is interposed either explicite that is expressely or implicite that is covertly and secretly as the Schoole men affirme Exod. 20. GOD spake these words Remēber that thou keepe holy the Sabaoth day c. The Lord spake vnto Moyses c. Sabbata mea c. In the institution onely by consequent and example God one●y ordaineth festivities and holy-daies God the 7. day rested frō b●●●vorke which he hade made and blessed the 7. day and hallowed The words delivered in that mood of Hebrew inforce that signification that God sanctified the Sabaoth for mans ●● according to that saying that Sabaoth vvas made for man for God hath no need of rest who still worketh in Creation Preservation according to his will Dominus lanctificavit diem Sabbati vt animae susciperent incrementum eo die magis quam alijs diebus as in the 5. of Iohn our Saviour saith Pater meus operatur vsque adhuc et ego operor My Father worketh vntill now and I worke But onely this is to be applied vnto vs Sanctificavit Sabbatum i. Sanctum et celebre esse voluit i. Observari instituit sibi consecravit i. Ceteros operū exercitio deputans illum suo cultui mancipavit He sanctified the Sabaoth that is he would haue it to be a solemne sacred meeting that is he appointed it to be obserued and consecrated vnto his owne vse assigning other daies for mens buysinesse and affaires hee applied this vnto his vvorshippe and service If question be made heere of the feastes mentioned in Hester Esther 1. 2. Chro. 30. the chang of the celebrity of the feast of the Passover by king Ezechias or any other feast demonstrated in bookes Canonicall I answere that the ordainers and alterers of these feasts did it vpō sure testimony of the holie Ghost for many governours and teachers of the church thē liued as the Prophets Esdras Hester Stapletons arg hereby confuted in his prin doct lib 12. con 7. c. 4. Ianus Numa Pōp Orpheus Hercules Mardocheus who had an infallible testimony and seale thereof immediatly from God The Heathens in their Idolatry and apish imitation ever had their festivalls ordained and ordered by the inventors of their devilish superstition The Materiall and Formall grounde of Holy-daies are such times workes Morall Evangelicall ceremoniall c. as are designed to those daies prescribed by authority specified The Finall endes of all Holly daies are these Secundum Scripturā Hollydaies are Daies 1 Dedicated to Gods service and glory 2 Figuring the state of the new testament the state of future rest 3 Intermitt●ent of all bodily labour 4 Serving for the recreation of the minde weakened by bodily labour 5 Serving to excellent workes of charity 6 For distinction of times and seasons 7 Sacramentally seperating Gods people frō all people not comprehended in Gods covenant by their observation Numeri●o Genes 1. Let thē bee for signes ●easons and daies and yeares Vide●un Annot. in B. b. Trem. Cap 1. Gen Austine against Seneca de civit Dei Mans labor without Gods blessing nothing availeth Seneca austere Sto●cal humor Vide Lu●h in 2. Genes Sabbat Le● scripta in ●●de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iustine Martyr Apol. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c Vin Lyren con Haer catholicum est quod vbique quod sēper quod ab omnibus creditū est Vniversalis tradit Aug ad Ian vt sup Naz. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The properties of Hollydaies which were noted were these in Moyses law The sounding of trumpets The Calends of the moone The distinction Planetary and Zodiacal instituted by God in the motion of the signes abo●e as it is in the worke of the 4. day and such like Of our signes now adaies more God willing hereafter Obserue herein the chiefe and most eminent ends concerning the institution of holly daies to be principally two 1. Their dedication to Gods glory and 2. in morality in the law of nature their designement to mans rest whereby S. Austen had iust cause to reproue Seneca for affirming that the Iewes lost the 7. part of the benefites of their life by observing each 7. day holy by observatiō of each 7. year holy c. Since from the beginning God ordained this lawe to mans good in prescribing every 7. day to be a day of rest for man and in imprinting the morallity of this lawe in the hart of man in his creation for his recreation and refreshing Now if any man shall heere demaund Wherefore the Saba●th is obserued in the New testament and Who altered that day from the Iewes 7. day to that which we cal Diem Dominicum or the Lordes day or What authority the Church had to ordaine Holly daies since there is no expresse mention of this change since the observation of al holly daies is only of Gods institution and is contained essentially vnder the first Table of the lawe of God given by Moses To these interrogatories I answere briefly in this sort Concerning the observation of the Sabaoth day as it is now vsually called by the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in other places of scripture 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say The Lords day the first of the Sabbaoths although there bee no expresse place in words shewing the alteration or translation of it from the Iewes Sabboth to that day wherein it is now celebrated yet by the practise of that Church as it may bee out of these places collected Apoc. 1.1 Cor. 16.2 Act. 20.7 and by the practise of the Church immediatly succeeding the church of the Apostles as it appeareth by Iustin Martyr in his apollogy and by the continuall practise and example of the vniversall Church frō thence to these times and by that rule of Nazianzen before cited out of his booke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is of the holy Ghost without all contradiction gaine-saying it is demonstratiuely and infallibly in my iudgement confirmed that the observation of the Lords day commōly called our Sabaoth day is a sacred tradition originally Apostolike pregnantly to be proued out of the holy scriptures obserued sacredly in the Primitiue Church since continued and obserued by continual prescription and practise to our daies The observatiō of which day I doubt whether the church can now alter to any other day yet herein I submit my iudgement to the Church By this I affirme that it is invincibly proved against all gaine saiers that the observation of our Sabaoth is only of God by the infallible testimony of his spirite demonstrated by practise in the primitiue Church in prescripte and tradition Apostolike This opinion though divers Catholikes now in prison haue contradicted affirming that the institution of the Lords day or Sabaoth according to the day as it is now obserued was some hundred yeares originally afterwardes prescribed