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A47636	The keeping of holy days recommended in a sermon preached at Hadham before the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God, Henry, Lord Bishop of London, &c. at his Lordships late conference with his clergy there / by Thomas Leigh ...	Leigh, Thomas, 1633 or 4-1686.	1684 (1684)	Wing L1021; ESTC R13950	18,956	38

gracious means whereby the glad Tidings of Salvation have been made known and become saving unto us 1. For the Mysteries themselves the first great Mystery of Godliness or Christian Religion is God manifested in the Flesh and this we think our selves bound to commemorate on the days of his Incarnation commonly call'd the Annunciation and of his Nativity The next is his being Justified in the Spirit at his Resurrection and this we Celebrate as on every Lord's day so especially on that day of the year whereon he rose Then his being receiv'd into Glory on Ascension day his being Preach'd to the Gentiles on the Epiphany whereto are premis'd and subjoyn'd that of the Circumcision and Presentment of our Lord in the Temple to shew our hope of the Conversion of the Jews and that we and they must expect to be saved by one and the same Saviour 2. Others are in contemplation of the Means whereby so great a Salvation hath been publish'd for the benefit of all mankind As 1. The Descent of the Holy Ghost for which we have our Whitsunday 2. Our Lords being seen of Angels in order to make them his Ministring Spirits to Minister to them that shall be Heirs of Salvation for which we have that of Michael and all Angels 3. His being believed on in the World through the Preaching and Writing of the Apostles and Evangelists and the means of all those Persons and Things whereby so great a Mystery was made credible to the World as was that of our Lords Birth by the little less miraculous Birth of John the Baptist the only Saint therefore whose Nativity we observe and the dreadful Massacre of the Fourteen thousand Infants at Bethlehem And that of his Resurrection and Ascension by the aforesaid Effusion of the Holy Ghost the death of the Protomartyr Stephen who saw our Lord standing at the right hand of God and all other Saints and Martyrs their Holy lives and painful deaths And now after all when the great Creator and Redeemer of Mankind and Sanctifier of the Elect have been devoutly acknowledged on distinct days If there be one added to recognise the Ineffable Trin-Vnity I hope none will gainsay it though the ground I go upon will not reach it Ye see now our Church hath not stuffed her Calendar with the Invention of the Cross of Christ of the Head of John Baptist the Bones of St. Luke the Relicks of any other Martyrs with the Names of seign'd or real Saints that had not a special Commission to Preach the Gospel or were not extraordinary instruments to assert the Credibility of it So that our Church Calendar is a kind of Catechism instructive even of them that cannot read where Holy days are duly observ'd Fifthly Upon this ground we may build the true degrees and distinctions of Holy days All the Rubricks are not of an equal dye there are if I may so say dies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 scarlet days Festa duplicia majora minora as they us'd to speak God hath left a greater impression and mark upon some than upon others as he did upon the Jewish and as they had so have we upon the same score three distinctions of Days And this threefold degree of Holiness might be made out as well in Persons and Places as Times both in the Jewish and Christian Church but that is alien from our business First The Lords day is as the Sabbath was with them the Queen and Empress of Days a day which God hath Crown'd more than any other by extraordinary Acts of his own 'T is the first day that God made that whereon he began the Creation of the World and that whereon our Blessed Lord finish'd the work of our Redemption It pleads the greatest Antiquity as a day set apart for all Religious Performances that whereon our Lord twice visited his Disciples that whereon the Holy Ghost descended upon them that whereon St. Peter Preach'd and Converted Three thousand Souls whereon St. Paul gave the Holy Communion and used to have his Collections for the Poor that whereon the Primitive Christians used to Pray standing and always forbid Fasting A Day which the Great Constantine took care to be wholly devoted to Divine Worship and Christian Instruction on it he caus'd all Courts of Judicature to be shut up all publick Suits and private Arbitrations to be superseded The Great Theodosius forbid all publick shews and spectacles on that Day The other Theodosius did the like and moreover provided in case the Day of the Birth or Inauguration of the Emperor happen'd on the Lord's day the solemnities usual in honour of the Imperial Majesty should be deferr'd till another day A Day which always as far as we can find had the Preheminence in this our Land Of the British Church we have scarce any Records but for our Antecessors the Saxons it is demonstrable that they after they became a Christian and setled People for above Three Hundred years gave the preference to this above all other Festivals although a certain Historian hath born us in hand to the contrary The Laws of King Ina and of King Withred at the Council of Berghamsted the Canons of the Council of Cloveshow or Cliffe held under Cuthbert Archbishop of Canterbury the Excerptions of Egbert Archbishop of York The Laws of King Alfred and Edward the Elder in conjunction with Guthrun the Dane The Laws of King Athelstan King Edgar the Peaceable and King Ethelred in a General Council of all England and King Kanute All take most especial care for the observance of the Lords day above others and if I mistake not in one place 't is call'd The Holy Day This is plain to any one who consults that great lover of Church and Clergy the Learned and Industrious Sir Henry Spelman I should not doubt to answer the Pompous Arguments that are brought to the contrary from the times of the Norman Confusions and afterwards but I hold not my self so much bound to account for those times because if they did reduce the Queen of Days to a common Peerage with the other less Holy it is no more to be wondred at than twenty things besides For they made the Virgin and other Saints fellows with our Lord or rather Superiors in all other Honors Where one Church was built in Honor of our Lord there were ten Dedicated to St. Mary ten Ave-Maries said for one Pater-noster and in several other things the Mother had ten to one odds of her Son and Men were grown so sottish at last as with a small distinction to allow that Peter-noster might be said to the Mother of our Lord. And now let me speak alittle to the Honor of of the Church of England as it hath stood ever since our happy Reformation Some that have taken good pains to deliver us from the Superstitious and Judaising Doctrines of others about the Observation of our Lords day have run into another Extreme and levelling that with other Holy

The keeping of Holy Days Recommended in a SERMON PREACHED at HADHAM BEFORE THE Right Honorable and Right Reverend FATHER in GOD HENRY LORD Bishop OF LONDON c. AT His Lordships late Conference with his Clergy there By Thomas Leigh B. D. Vicar of Bishops STORTFORD LONDON Printed by H. Hills Jun. for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1684. Cujus mandato Hoc quicquid est dudum aures multorum Nunc oculos omnium metuit Villae meae natalis Domino primario Vicariatûs quo ibidem fungor Patrono extraordinario Ecclesiae Londini quaquà patemus Trinobantes Antistiti Vigilantissimo Ecclesiae Anglicanae Lumini Columini Pietatis primaevae Cultori Eximio Reformatae Religionis Adsertori fortissimo Cleri sui Inspectori simul Speculo Vindici pariter ac Judici integerrimo HENRICO Praenobilis COMPTO Norum Familiae Summo Decori Ornamento Viro nullis non nominibus Honorando Me meáque omnia Quantâ licet demissione atque observantiâ LMQDDCQ T. L. Psalm 118.24 This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it THE Occasion of our present Meeting is to inquire into the reasons of setting apart and keeping certain days for the more special Worship of God which are therefore call'd Holy and into the reasons why they are no better kept The former I shall chiefly speak to from the words now read which the Jews understand of the Day of David's advancement to the Throne and accordingly the Chaldee Paraphrast renders the 22th ver thus The Builders despised the Youth that was among the Sons of Jesse and yet he deserv'd to be made King and Ruler and then brings in the Builders and the Sons of Jesse with others singing alternatim thus the Builders begin This is the Lords doing the Sons of Jesse answer It is marvellous in our eyes The Builders go on This is the day which the Lord hath made the Sons of Jesse Let us rejoyce and be glad in it The Builders again Save now we beseech thee O Lord then Jesse and his Wife O Lord we beseech thee send now prosperity and lastly David and Samuel and the whole Tribe of Judah are brought in bearing their parts in this Psalm of Thanksgiving And they had good reason to understand the Day spoken of to be the Day of David's coming to the Crown but we have greater to understand it of the Day of our Lord's Resurrection from the dead which was the Day whereon he began his Reign or the exercise of his Kingly Office For our Lord appropriates to himself those words of the 22d ver The stone which the Builders refus'd is become the head of the Corner Matt. 21.42 adding also the words of the 23. ver and St. Peter himself a great stone in that Building applies the same to our Lord after and upon account of his Resurrection Act. 4.11 1 Epistle 2.4 To which add the Hosanna and Benediction of the two following verses which were the Acclamations of the multitude when our Lord rode in Kinglike manner to Jerusalem Matt. 21.5 9. We have in the words the Constitution of a Holy or Festival day and the Celebration of it The Constitution This is the day which the Lord hath made The Celebration We will rejoyce and be glad in it First For the Constitution Here is the ground and reason for the ordaining and keeping of a Day Holy because it is that which the Lord hath made where by making 1. We don't understand the creating of a Day which is done by dividing the Darkness from the Light for so all days are of Gods making and made without any distinction of Festi Profesti Fasti Nefasti Holy and Unholy Lucky and Unlucky or any other differences than what the course of the Sun and the seasons of the year do necessarily cause 2. Nor do we understand here only Gods appointing of a Day to be kept for Religious purposes for that hath and may be done by man But We understand thereby the making of a Day signal and remarkable by some extraordinary deliverance or other Mercy bestow'd upon Mankind in general or some Nation or great body of Men in particular Such a Mercy such a Deliverance leaves a certain stamp or impression upon that Day whereon it was bestow'd as to make it be call'd a Holy day a High day a day of days a day more extraordinary and notable than its fellows Such was the day of David's Exaltation to the Throne a Day of great Mercy and Deliverance to the People of Israel and such was the Day of our Lord's Resurrection a Day of great Mercy and Deliverance to all mankind Such Days are if I may so call them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Days of a singular make and which God hath as it were redeem'd and purchas'd to himself from the rest of the days of the year Grant me this ground to go upon and I shall hope to give you some tolerable account of the Institution of Holy days What I have to say shall be comprehended under a very few Heads First Upon this ground it is that we hear of no special Day set apart for above two thousand years unless that of the Sabbath For altho I doubt not but that as there were some days whereon the Sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord as we find twice in Job so there was also some time whereon the Sons of Men made their Religious addresses to Him And I understand when 't is said after the birth of Enos Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord thus Then men being increased into a multitude the Worship of God became more publick Yet I say we are not sure whether the time was fix'd and unalterable or whether chosen or commanded upon occasion We read of Holy Persons or Priests of Holy things as Sacrifices and Tithes and of Holy places often before the Deliverance out of Egypt but not of Holy times Altars several built by Noah Abraham Isaac and Jacob and several of them upon the score of Gods appearing to them when it might have been said to them as it was to Moses and Joshua upon the same account The ground whereon thou standest is Holy and they might have said as the Psalmist does here of a Day This is the Place which the Lord hath made that is signalised by his special appearance in a way of Mercy But no fix'd times because God for the first Two thousand years of the World had rather given publick tokens of his Justice and Displeasure than of his Goodness and Mercy as in the drowning of the Old World the burning of Sodom and the three neighbouring Cities the confounding of Tongues several Famines and Plagues The favours which God bestow'd at any time were only on single Persons or their Familes which although we need not doubt but they did most thankfully acknowledge yet if we grant they did