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A78668	Certaine queries, proposed by the King, to the Lords and Commons Commisssioners from the Honourable Houses of Parliament, attending his Majesty at Holdenby, the 23 of this instant Aprill, 1647. touching the celebration of the feast of Easter. With an answer thereunto, given and presented to his Majesty by Sir James Harrington Knight and Barronet a Commissioner there.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1647 (1647)	Wing C2155; Thomason E385_5; ESTC R201458	2,624	8

CERTAINE QVERIES Proposed by the KING To the Lords and Commons Commissioners from the Honourable Houses of Parliament attending his Majesty at Holdenby the 23 of this instant Aprill 1647. touching the celebration of the feast of EASTER With an Answer thereunto given and presented to his Majesty by Sir JAMES HARRINGTON Knight and Barronet a Commissioner there LONDON Printed for John Giles Aprill 27. 1647. I desire to be Resolved of this Question Why the new Reformers discharges the keeping of Easter The reason for this Query is I Conceive the Celebration of this Feast was instituted by the same authority which changed the Jewish Sabboth into the Lords Day or Sunday for it will not be found in Scripture where Saturday is discharged to be kept or turned into the Sunday wherefore it must be the Churches authority that changed the one and instituted the other Therefore My opinion is that those who will not keepe this Feast may as well returne to the observation of Saturday and refuse the weekely Sunday when any bodie can shew Me that herein I am in an error I shall not be ashamed to confesse and amend it Tell when you know my minde C. REX May it please Your MAjESTY I Cannot but from the blessed Example of our Saviour who was in his Age a new Reformer of old errors viz. The false glosses of the Scribes and Pharises Mat. 5. 20. but accompt all such Reformers in our times blessed also but for the keeping of Easter although I know not any Ordinance of Parliament discharging it yet with submission to better judgments I in all dutifulnesse conceive that Your Majesties Reason upon which Your Queery is built hath a great mistake even in the foundation of it You being pleased to lay this for a ground that the change of the Sabboth and the Institution of Easter are by one and the same equall authority and Ecclesiasticall Decree which with Your Majesties favour I cannot yeild to for I humbly conceive that the change of the Jewish Sabboth the commemoration of the worke of the Creation unto the Lords day the remembrance of that greaterwork the worke of Redemption finished upon this day of the Lords Resurrection was by no lesse then by Divine authority because the keeping of one day in seven as a Sabboth to God was not only sanctified and set a part by Gods own example in the Creation Gen. 2. ver. 3. and accordingly observed by the Israelites many weekes before the Law was given Ex. 16. ver. 23. but is one of the ten Commandements delivered by Gods own voyce on Mount Sinay Written by his owne finger in Tables of stone commanded by himselfe to be put into the Arke of the Covenant which decalogue or ten Commandements are also by our blessed Saviour in his Sermon upon the Mount declared to be the rule of his peoples morall obedience unto the end of the World Mat. 5. 17. And in the following part of that Sermon wherein hee vindicates the Law from the corrupt glosses of the Scribes and Pharises He instances only in morall duties and morall Lawes from all which Divines generally infer that the Decalogue is to continue in force unto the worlds end And therefore it seemes most apparent that no authority that is inferior to that which appointed the seventh day from the Creation to be the Sabboth could abrogate that day and appoint another day to be used instead of it because neither the Law of Nature nor the holy Scripture doth anywhere give the least intimation that any humane power may change any of the Commandements of God and indeed so many absurdities would follow upon such an assertion that I am confident Your Majejesty will not own it It remaines therefore that the change of the day must needs be the worke of Christ himselfe or of his Apostles who were Divinely inspired Acts 15. 21. And to prove that it was so viz. That by Divine institution the Lords day now succeeds in the room of the Jewish Sabboth I shall use no other Arguments then those which I finde in learned Bishop Andrewes his Speech in the Star Chamber at the Censure of Mr. Traske who expresly saith that it hath ever beene the Churches Doctrine that Christ made an end of all Sabboths by his Sabboth in the Grave And that presently the Lords Day came in the place of it And that according to Austens judgement The Lords Day is declared to be the Christian Sabboth by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ which the said Bishop not only saith but proveth by these Arguments first because he then began the new world Heb. 1. 2. by whom he made the world the first world which ended with his buriall the second world or new creation which began with his resurrection secondly because the foure Evangelists say Christ rose una Sabbatorum that is the first day of the weeke thirdly the Apostles kept their holy meetings on that day to Preach and Pray and Celebrate the Lords Supper Act. 20. 7. fourthly the day is called the Lords day not onely in the Apostles time but by the Apostle John himselfe Revel. 1. 10. And he further addes that this epithite Dominicum in the Scripture is onely applied to these two the Lords day and the Lords Supper to shew that they are both to be taken alike in the Scripture fifthly he saith wee have not onely example but expresse precept for it 1 Cor. 16. 2. that upon the first day of the weeke which was the day of their Assembly then collections o● oblations should be made and lastly he affirmes that in all ages of the Church this day was observed To this I may adde our Saviours rest upon that day from his workes Heb. 4 10. His often visiting his Apostles during the forty daies after his resurrection upon that day speaking of the things appertaining to the Kingdome of God Act. 1. 3. Now what more materiall thing was there to be declared to them then this the change of the Sabboth and the appointing a set time for his worship he accordingly appearing thrice upon the first day of the weeke besides his being seen of the women Mat. 28. 9. to teach and instruct his Disciples first to the two Disciples that went to Emmaus Luk. 24. 15. secondly to the Apostles when Thomas was absent John 20. ver. 19. and the third time when Thomas was present Iohn 20. 26. As also observe that those wonderfull and extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost were poured out according to his promise upon the Apostles and Church then met together Act. 2. 1. The day of Penticost being the morrow after the seaventh sabboth to be accompted from the day of the sheafe-offering Levit. 23. 15. by all which he seemes to have honoured and set apart that day above others for his service lastly this being a principall institution might probably be one of those decrees ordained by the Apostles as well as that concerning the sacrament 1 Cor. 11. 34. and delivered by Paul to the Churches in all the Cities through which he passed Act. 16. ve 4. But for the observation of Easter to be an annuall festivall to Christians I finde nothing in the holy Scripture and your Majestie is pleased to place it only upon the Churches authority And although I will not contend about the Churches power of Institution of such things as are simply indifferent yet I suppose I may boldly assert that such things as are instituted onely by Ecclesiasticall Authority having no footesteps in the Scripture may be by Ecclesiasticall Authority be altered and laid aside Your Majesties most loyall subject and humble servant FINIS