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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

yearly commemorate the same during their own lives that they did obblige their Posterity to do the same we have no ground to think For I suppose he that finds in an Eastern Calendar exhibited by Mr. Selden Ingressus Noachi in Arcam and Egressus Noachi ex Nave will not think it signifies much against what I say Secondly Upon this ground as soon as any other I would conclude the Sabbath-day was kept from the beginning of the World in honor of the great maker of it and that God by ceasing from the making of all other things made that a signal Day a Day of Rest and Joy For if at the laying of the foundations of the Earth the Morning Stars sang together and all the Sons of God shouted for joy Job 38.7 can we think the Sons of Men were silent and stupid when they not only beheld that great work compleated but constantly injoyed their shares therein and were themselves no small part of it So stupendious a work deserv'd to be Celebrated as soon as it was finish'd and in that portion of time which God had sanctified And it was surely a greater work to make a World than to deliver a small People out of a Tyrants hands and yet this had not only a yearly but also this weekly Commemoration of it I would I say upon this ground conclude that of Gen. 2.3 to be more than Proleptical but that there are some other reasons on the other hand wherein I have not yet satisfied my self But as from such a conclusion the Morality of a Seventh day could not be inferr'd so without such a conclusion we need not doubt our obligation to keep the Christian Sabbath from this very ground we now go upon as may be seen anon Wherefore I pass on and say in the third place 3. Upon this ground we shall find the Jewish Festivals to have been founded as well those that were ordain'd by Men as those that were commanded by God himself The chief of Gods own commanding were the weekly Sabbath and those three that required their yearly attendance in person at Jerusalem All which were commemorative of something pass'd and Typical of something future and they all related to the redemption of the Israelites out of Egypt 1. The sabbath-Sabbath-day had that respect Wherefore it is observable that in the Deuteronomy c. 5. v. 15. the reason fetch'd from Gods resting on the seventh day is omitted the reason express'd Ex. 20. and still retain'd by us and this is inserted in the room thereof Remember that thou wast a Servant in the Land of Egypt and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence with a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath-day 2. That the Passover was therefore also commanded is so notorious that I need say nothing This was a Feast of seven days on the first whereof this Deliverance was wrought This says Ex. 12.14 day shall be to you for a Memorial and ye shall keep it a Feast to the Lord throughout your generations ye shall keep it a Feast by an Ordinance for ever 3. That of Pentecost which was ordain'd in Memory of the giving of the Law and therefore the Jews call'd it Festum Legis A great Blessing this was For though then other Lords had no dominion over them yet Anarchy would have been little better than Tyranny and their deliverance out of the house of Bondage a delivery into a Wilderness of violence tumult and confusion had they not been afterwards form'd into a Polity and receiv'd certain Laws Statutes and Judgments whereby they should be govern'd both in Religious and Civil affairs and this was done or began to be done upon the day of Pentecost and this also had a special reference to their Emancipation from Egyptian bondage according to Deut. 16.10 12. Thou shalt keep the Feast of Weeks unto the Lord thy God Thou and thy Son and thy Servant and thou shalt remember that thou wast a Bondman in Egypt 4. The Feast of Tabernacles had the like reference Levit. 23.42 43. Ye shall dwell in Booths seven days that your generations may know that I made the Children of Israel to dwell in Booths when I brought them out of the Land of Egypt I am the Lord your God 5. Add how the Feast of Trumpets call'd a Sabbath a Memorial of blowing of Trumpets a Holy Convocation seems to have been ordain'd in remembrance of the taking of Jericho by the blowing of Trumpets the taking of which City was the first Possession the Israelites took of the Land of Promise and an earnest of all the rest We need not here dissemble what P. Fagius tells us how on the Seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles they went seven times round the Altar in memory of the taking of that City the City of Palms bearing Palm-branches in their hands and indeed of such chiefly they were requir'd to make their Booths Lev. 23.43 It is all one to our purpose But I will not stand so much on these things nor on the Feasts that follow which were of human ordination As 1. The Feast of Purim ordain'd by Esther and Mordecai and receiv'd by the Jews with general consent to be remembred and kept throughout every Generation every Province every City every Family in Memorial of their deliverance from the Bloody Conspiracy of Haman 2. The Feast of Dedication those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which our Lord honour'd with his presence ordain'd in memory of the Dedication of the Temple and Altar made by Judas Maccaboeus after the horrid Profanations of Antiochus 3. The Feast of Fire which was given from Heaven when Nehemiah offer'd Sacrifice after his building the Temple and the Altar whereof read 2. Macc. 1.18 c. Fourthly Come we now to our Christian Feasts and to shew that the days and times of them were made by God also signalis'd and exempt out of the number of common days by far greater Mercies and Deliverances than ever were bestowed on the Israelites and of more universal concern These are of Gods making rather than Mans He hath set his Seal upon them and by his own deed plainly pointed out our duty We in keeping them adore Gods extraordinary Providence in the greatest managements that could possibly be in order to our welfare What Man doth in these is but his sealing to the Counterpart of that which God himself hath dictated and wrought with his own hand It is but a testification of his Thankfulness and that is no human Invention but a result of the Law of Nature For the Church of England and I doubt not the like of all other Reformed Churches which have their Holy days too hath no other end in appointing these days but as they are days of Thanksgiving to God and that either for those great Mysteries of his Goodness Wisdom and Power that concurr'd to the compleating of the work of our Redemption Or for those

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