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A95529
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Christmas in & out or, our Lord & Saviour Christs birth-day.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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CHRISTMAS IN OVT OR OUR LORD SAVIOUR Christs Birth-Day To the Reader Good Joshua once ordain'd a Holy-Day Because the Sun stood still in Gibeon And at his Prayers that the Moon did stay His course above the Vaile of Aialon And shal not Christians stil give thanks praise On th' yearly day our blest redeemer came Shall Powder Treasons and thanksgiving dayes Be still observed in Records of Fame Then let not Christs Birth-Day forgotten bee Remember him that doth remember thee Thine JOHN TAYLOR LONDON Printed by T. H. for Francis Coles and are to be sold at his shop in the Old-Bayly 1653. Christmas or Christs Day or Christs Birth-Day INimitation of my great and glorious Lord and Master Jesus Christ in love to them that hate me I am come to them that love me not My Almighty Master was is and ever will be GOD from whom nothing was is or ever shall be hid and hed d not onely know but commiserate the miseries of his enemies most miserable mankinde to whom he had often sent his Partriarks Prophets and other Messengers of Peace and prosperity and how they were and should be entertained in the world God knew before and all Histories of the secred Volumes or other Books of Eclesiasticall Writings will testifie And as my good Master did know how coursely he should be dealt withall by misbelieving hard hearted Jewes yet he came on this Day from whom I have my name of CHRISTMAS or Christs Day Even so I come this 25. of December though I know I shall be hardly welcome to a great many yet I am sure that as many as love my Master will rejoyce to see this Day But as my sirname of Mas there is much exceptions taken by some that understand not what Mas or Christmas meaneth I have heard Learned men say that the word Mas doth signifie some heavy or ponderous thing as Massa is a Wedge of Gold or Iron or any thing that is pressed or made into a lump of any thick matter of Dough or Curds Cheese or such like but my sirname of Mas is mistaken for my name is Christi missi or Christ sent as being sent from God to us this Day Christ had his Mission he came not before he was sent as himselfe said to his Disciples He that believes in you believes in me and he that believes in me believes in him that sent me Here it is plaine that my Master was sent and as he was sent so he sent his Apostles and they gave mission to the succeeding Ministery and they that were sent went and none were so bold to intrude into the Ministery without his Mission or Commission of being sent and so much concerning my name of Christmas But I am more properly called Christs Day for he himselfe did honour me with that Name and though all dayes are his for as he is God he is the Antient of Daies for whem the Jewes did speak of ABRAHAM Joh. 8 56 My Master sayd Before ABRAHAM was I am for ABRAMAM saw my Day and rejoyced in it and was glad He appointed me to be the peculiar Day of his blessed Birth he was promised in Paradice foretold and foreseen by the Patriarks and Prophets proclaimed by Angels with Glory be to God in the highest peace on Earth good will towards men Luk. 11. 14 A Song or Christmas Carroll of three parts to God to Earth to Men Glory Peace Good will a gracious Consort sung by celestall Spirits Angels and a multitude of heavenly Souldiers they sung and rejoyced all for our good and not for their owne Then let men sing Psalmes and Anthems in Churches and Hymns and Carols in our Houses let us give glory to God on high and he will give us peace below Faith is very clear sighted for ABRAHAM was more than two thousand yeares before Christ came in the flesh yet with the Eye of Eaith he saw Me he saw my Master and my Masters day and rejoyced in it and his rejoycing was approved of but the Jews which rejoyced not were reprehended The holy Patriark rejoyced and Christ allowed it and he did dislike the unbelieving Jews that rejuyced not The Jewes did not and do not observe it but all Christians did doe and will celebrate it and acknowledge it for no Christian will strike blot or scrape Christs Day out of the Kallender The Prophet Isaiah did write of Christs comming 600 years before he came in these words Behold a Virgin shall conceive and beare a Son and he shall call his name IMMANUELL or EMANUELL Esay 8. v. 14. And again in the 9. Chapter v. 6. For unto us a Child is borne and unto us a Son is given He is born and unto us a Son is given born of the blessed Virgin his Mother and given by Almighty God his Father a Child Natus a gift Datus Is borne Is given The Prophet saies not was borne and given but is which is ever in the present Tense Borne still in the heart soule and memory of every Christian He that Was and Is and Is to come Was borne a Child and is born a Child unto us Was given a Son and is given a Son unto us this Day of my Masters blessed Nativity In the second of S. Luke v. 10 11. Then the Angel said unto them be not afraid for behold I bring you glad tidings of great joy which shall be to all the people a Saviour is born on this Day Christs Day Christs Birth-day my day Christmas day The Angel appeared to the Shepheards and told them newes of a Lamb the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the World a Lamb that was come to save all the sheep of Israel that were lost and lost everlastingly we should have been had not this blessed Lamb come and redeemed us And as he was a Lamb so likewise he was a Shepheard the true Shepheard the chiefe Shepheard 1 Pet. 5. 4. the good Shepheard Joh. 10 11. 14. so we read that his Birth and Birth-day was first made knowne unto Shepheards Indeed Shepheards were in odious and contemptible abhomination amongst the Idolatrous Egyptians Gen. 46. 32. So was and is my Master Christs Name and Birth-day to the misbelieving Jewes miscreant Turke and Sectarian Schismaticall out-side seeming Christians This day he that was prophecied of to come did come and he that was promised is come an Angell preached at his comming and Qaires and multitudes of blessed Spirits sung when our Saviour came who was is and ever will be not only a Saviour but salvation it selfe He was the Word and the Word was God and God was the Word Here God the Word was a Childe a Babe an Infant and here the Word was not able to speak a word Joh. 14. And the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us we saw the glory thereof as the glory of the onely begotten Son of the Father full of Grace and Truth God sent his Son this day note