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Christmas in & out, or, Our Lord & Saviour Christs birth-day to the reader ... / [by] John Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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In detestation of which superstitious diet they assum'd to themselvs spirituall and temporall jurisdiction power and authority to search and plunder Pottage-pots to ransack and rifle Ovens and to strip spits stark naked and triumphantly carry the pillage to be disposed of as they pleased for the profit and edification of the righteous and chastisement of the wicked As there are many sundry Nations so are there as many inclinations the Russian Polonian German Belgian are excellent in the Art of Drinking the Spaniard will Wench it the Italian is revengefull the French man is for fashions the Irish man Usquebagh makes him light heel'd the Welsh mans Cowss-boby works by insusion to his fingers ends and translates them into the nature of lime-twigs and it is said that a Scot will prove false to his Father and dissemble with his Brother but for an English man he is so cleare from any of thâ—se Vices that he is perfectly exquisite and excellently indued with all those noble above said exercises I am old and bold to tell the nose wise Brethren of these critick daies that my great Master is King of Kings Lord of Lords whois the ancient of daies who never had beginning and never shall have end And on this day which is kept in a thankfull remembrance of his blessed incarnation 1652 years since I Christmas have not failed to make my aniversary yearly progress into Christendom When my Master Christ was graciously pleased to exchange his unexpressible grory for mans unsupportable misery when in his mercy he put off the Majesty of his Godhead and took upon him our miserable Manhood leaving his glorious Throne for a Maunger when he laid by his immortall honour and cloathed himselfe with our shame to free all true believers from eternall damnation Then on his daies birth my day began Then on that day and at that time as the Shepheards were in the field they were saluted with an Angel and a multitude of the heavenly Host with a most celestiall Carroll Luk. 2. All glory be to God on the High'st And on the Earth be Peace Good will towards men 't is the will of Christ Our joyes should never cease Thus was my good Master usher'd into the World and for his sake I with my followers being 12 daies in number honest Stephen true John with my Innocents Pages and all the rest have been welcom'd and joyfully entertained ever since by all sorts of people that have lov'd or do love and honour the memory of the birth-day of my gracious and glorious Lord and Master But now of late the case is quite altred Christ and Christmas are both alike welcome and if the Saviour of Mankinde should come personally here amongst us againe he were likely through ignorance malice and madnesse to be re-crucified if Christmas may be so bold as to aske those fiery spirited people the same question as my Master might have asked the Jews for which of my good works that I have done do you stone me So I may say to England what harme have I ever done unto you I am sure I never perswaded you to be so uncharitable as to cut one anothers throats and to starve and famish the poore as you have done continually and do still ever since you banished me from your territories and it is to be feared that you will never be quiet or have a happy Peace amongst you till you do give me better welcome for my Masters sake he is the Prince of Peace and his peace you will never have that do unthankfully dispise neglect to solemnize the day of his most blessed Nativity It is a lamentable and too long a story to relate in what a pittifull quandary I and my followers have been in any time these twelve years when we came into this Country I was in good hope that so long a misery would have made them glad to bid a merry Christmas welcome But welcome or not welcome I am come and at my comming a little before day I heard the Cock crow merrily which â— took for a good Omen or Preface of a most free and jovial accommodation which rejoyced me much for I and mâ— men were as hungry as Hawks and as cold as Snow-ball the sable curtains of the night being drawn I gazed to anâ— fro to make choice of the best houses and house-keeper to take up my quarters amongst them but alas the com fort that I found was colder then the weather indeed saw many stately buildings but very little smoak from the Chimnies for most of the owners did carry their Kitchiâ— in Boxes and the best and dearest part of their Roast-meâ— in Pipes besides there was a great complaint that Mr. 〈◊〉 and Mr. Plunder had plaid a long game at sweep-sta 〈…〉 mongst them and that they would willingly have 〈…〉 ded good chear for me but that they are so misera 〈…〉 that they were not able to feed themselves This was no good news to me and my company we had not been used to such uncomfortable breakfasts which made us all search up and down the chief Cities for better chear but my especiall mind was to try the curtesie of London where I entred a fair house which had been an Aldermans but it was now possest with a grave Fox-fur'd Mammonist whom I found sitting over a few cinders to warm his gouty toes for no other part of him did need the comfort of a fire from head to heel he was fur'd like a Muscovite and instead of a Bible he had a Bond in his hand which he poard upon to see if it were forfeit or no he seldome looked upward but as it were riveted his eyes to the earth as if he had been looking for a Mine his keys of his treasure were hanged at his waste and his clutches alwayes on them and he no sooner espied me and my Company but he cried Thieves Thieves and reviled his â—oor starveling servant saying thou Villain hast thou let in base Rakehells to rob me and cut my throat Then I began to intreat him to be patient saying Sir there are none here that intend to hurt you if you take any â—arme it must be your selfe that must do it to your selfe â—nd not we My name is Christmas these gray haired men that are with me are men of my old acquaintance â—hey are all poor and true we are come to dine with you out if it be not your pleasure to give us entertainment it is not our purposes to force it This old muck worme cast as dogged a look upon me as if I had brought him a privy Seal to borrow money and â—t last he opened his mouth and said thou old saucy intruâ—ing fellow I prithee let me have thy absence thou comâ—st to do nothing but mischief to make men waste and 〈◊〉 so much to entertain thee in twelve or thirteen days 〈◊〉 of riotous Gluttony and Gurmondizing that for 〈…〉 after they can hardly purchase a
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 Giâ—eon 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 thanks giving 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 at the Charge of the Authour 1652. Christmas or Christs Day or Christs Birth-Day IN imitation 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 he did not onely know but commiserate the miseries of his enemies most miserable mankinde to whom he had often sent his Patriarks 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 sacred 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 celestiall 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 rejoyced 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 Kalender 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 Quires 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 who he was that did send and what it