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A78109 To all that observe dayes. F. B. 1660 (1660) Wing B64; ESTC R170409 1,466 1

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To all that observe Dayes THe Lord is a witnesse against all your Idolatry who are following Idols and observing dayes and times and seasons which is idolatry Oh London what art thou falling back into Popish Idolatry again which sometime there hath been a spirit in thee which hath denyed What have you lost your zeal for the Lord and is your zeal quite dead which once was in you against the practices of the whore of Rome Alas what do you meane in your observing the Popish Mass-dayes in observing Christmas as you call it I had thought that spirit had been banished And I looked e're this that observing of dayes would have been quite extinguished and I hoped that your mindes and hearts would have enclined to better things and would wholly have forgotten and left off all your superstitious practices which had any foundation or savour of the Popish Church But alas I see your zeal for God is grown dead and the spirit of Idolatry cleaves fast unto you even so fast is it seated in your hearts that an Act of Parliament or any outward teaching or profession can separate you from Idolatry and I perceive there is nothing till the just judgement of God fall among you because of your sins that can worke out of your hearts the spirit that runs after Idols You seem to be joyned to Idols as if an Idol were your God is not this idolatry As if you kept dayes wholly to the Lord you keep your Shops shut and you forbear all manner of worke and you put on your fine apparell and yet you go into vanity into pride and wantonnesse and commits great wickednesse in the sight of God in pleasures in sports and lusts and drunkennesse and idlenesse and all this is idolatry And thus you keep your holy-dayes as you call them spending your time in vanity both Masters and servants Parents and children And ye say ye will keep Christmas and ye are greatly offended at them that will not and cries against them and scoffes at their godliness and thus are you glewed to the old customes of the Romish Church that whore from whence you have learned these things for she was the first that ever instituted and practiced these cursed abominations and her practices which she was the author of are you zealously performing even in London the place of great Reformation as you professe And thus are you doing that call your selves the Reformed Churches and that seems in words to deny her yet are you treading in her steps of idolatry What observing Christmas in London yet What ye of the Reformed Churches What ye that have seemed some years since to turne away from these things are ye even again observing these things Oh! hypocrisie and deceit fills your hearts Oh yee hypocrites that cries against the Romish Church and yet are observing of her practices in feasting and ryoting and ryotousness in drinking and wantonnesse in idleness and sports and this ye call keeping the holy-holy-dayes Oh wretched idolatry The Lords judgements will come upon these things the Lord is a witnesse against you What is all your profession come to this Have not some of you cryed against the Pope and his inventions these many years and are you sitten down in the practice of his inventions It seems you are but reformed in words and onely hath denyed the Pope in words but are beholding to him for an invention that ye may keep Holy-days as ye say which ye keep unholy and manifold abominations in those days do abound to your shame Therefore repent ye Idolaters the time is at hand when the Lord will overturn and overthrow all your idolatrous wayes and practices As for the Quakers they feare God and they dare not joyne with you in these abominations and therefore you despise them and say in your hearts who shall controul you for these things will ye do and none shall prevent you And thus is the Popish spirit of Idolatry shewed forth in thee oh London and thy reformed peeople are guilty of Popish superstitions and vain idolatries till the judgements of the Lord enter upon you and smite you you will not regard nor return F. B.