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A96885	Christ-mas day, the old heathens feasting day, in honour to Saturn their idol-god. The Papists massing day. The prophane mans ranting day. The superstitious mans idol day. The multitudes idle day. Whereon, because they cannot do nothing: they do worse then nothing. Satans, that adversaries working-day. The true Christian mans fasting-day. Taking to heart, the heathenish customes, Popish superstitions, ranting fashions, fearful provocations, horrible abhominations committed against the Lord, and His Christ, on that day, and days following.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3482; Thomason E868_3; ESTC R207652	24,177	32

that in all this we do not more obey man then God The State we mean our Ruler or Rulers there may and ought appoint a set and stated day whereon to afflict our soules before God and a day also whereon to rejoyce before him But then they must eye and ●bserve well Gods providence call●ng them forth to all this And so here humbly to give our opinion being called f●rth unto it and pe●●wasion in this matter we are perswaded that our excellent Burroughs was right in this thing That no Christian State should appoint a day once every yeare much lesse once a month to be a fasting day or a feasting day and he gives his reason because they do not know bu● God may call them to rejoycing upon that day which they have appointed for mourning All that the Rulers can do is this when God calleth to fasting they must appoint dayes of fasting and when God calls to rejoycing they must appoint dayes of rejoycing Quest Why then is not for we must tell you that we have Sect. 2. heard to justifie the observation of this f●stival day the five and twentieth of December rightly appointed by man and to bee observed by us thereon to give thanks to God the Father for the marvelous R●d●mp●ion wrought for us by his Son Christ Jesus the Lord I● is alwayes seasonable to give thanks to God for this unspeakable gift and wonderful Salvation wrought by him Is it not Answ 1. It is so But why o●ce in the year which is seasonable yea r●quired of us as we shall hear presently every day do we put no difference betwixt a temporal Saviour as Joshuah was and all those Saviours were and now are which the Lord hath caused to come up on mount Zion to jude the mount of Esau and him that is the Eternal Saviour and everlasting Redeemer no difference betwixt these though the difference be as great as is betwixt the Creature and the Creator in whose strength of hand the Crea●u●e moves and doth all and being laid out of that hand it moves no more then an inst●ument can that is laid out of our hand and now hangs up by the wall All our prayers for our Saviours hands that they may be sufficient for them will prevail nothing unlesse we pray this may be added And be thou an help to them D●ut 33. 7. No difference then betwixt men-Saviours and the Lord God the Salvation of his people upon which bottom God builds up as we may have leave to say all the piles and stories of Salvation What ●o difference betwixt the Salvation of our bodies and outward man and the concernments hereof and the Salvation of ou● Eternal Soules surely the people of God the redeemed of the Lord discern a marvelous difference here and accordingly they behave themselves as to these matters not keeping a day once a yeare for a memoral of these things Answ 2. We say That this is an high presumption to appoint a day once in the year whereon to honour the Son as if man were more regard●ul of the Sons honour then the Father is though he hath commanded that all men should honour the John 5. 23. Son even as they honour the Father Now to doe more then is commanded is as displeasing unto God as to do lesse The Father was honoured by the observation of one day returning once a week whereon his people made his name glorious for the work of Creation And hath appointed his Son to be honoured w●th a day also wherein his people sing the high praises of their God for the glorious work of Redemption making all new Heavens and Earth and all Yea but this is not enough saith presumptious man the Son shall have two dayes the one returning once a week the other once in the year if this be not the highest presumption what is Be we at the allowance of the onely wise God he is all sufficient to provide for his Sons honour and for his Churches honor † 1. too Sons and Daughters adopted in him they shall have a day a stated day return unto them once a week whereon to record the whole hum●liation of Christ his incarnation sorrowfull life cursed death his Resurrection also with his Ascension and Intercession for is Christ divided or have we need of a part and not of the whole we must not parcel out his Redemption wrought for us taking it out by pieces and appoint one day for a memorial of his birth another of his death a third of his resurrecti●n No there is one day appointed for all this to be a memorial of all together the day of his Resurection appointed by God as the old Sabbath wa● to be a sign betwixt the Lord and his people That he is the Lord God that sanctified them affording unto them the means of Sanctification in his Son preached on that stated day wherein we are to sanctifie a Rest that we may attend upon God in the Conscionable use of means for our sanctification whose will and work it is And s●e yet farther how the Father hath provided for his † 2. Sons honour he hath not onely appointed a day wherein by his Herolds to proclaim him to the world and salvation by him but also thus th● Father hath appointed That whensoever we call him Father we must call his Son Lord and through him and his Mediat●on have accesse unto him and acceptance with him So then whensoever we come unto God praying for the supply of what we want as we are still wanting or praising him for what we have we must make hearty mention of the Lord Christ Epist 2. 18. 3. 12. 5. 20. Col. 3. 17. 1 Pet. 1. 21. here or else all is vain every time we come to God we tender up a Mediatour to him else we can have nothing from him but wrath and vengeance O its terrible saith you know who to think of God out of Christ Therefore saith Luther upon Psal 130. I inculcate this to my Hearers that they should shut their eyes and their ears and say we know no God out of Christ nor do we expect the least crumb of mercy but through him and for his sake So now sith in seeking he ●ace of our God the great King we must take up his Son in the a●m of our ●aith to allude to that know● story else we shall ●ev●r ●●e●●s face We have dayly if not hou●ly cause to make m●●●ion of him And besides all this we have a stated day returning ●nce a week whereon we may hear a voice from Heaven the voice of Christ in the Gospel and the voice of the Father again Hear Him It is presumption John 5. 25. Eph. 5. 12. then that reaches to Heaven to appoint a day of our own whereon to celebrate the memorial of all this But now suppose in the last place any of us did as devou●ly serve God and his Christ on that day as the most of the

2 The second is that the feast of Dedication cannot justifie Sect. 5. the observation of this imagenary feast devised of our own heart as Jeroboams was celebrated as a memorial of our Saviours Nativity Our Reason is but one and we a●e not careful to s●ek another for this place This Dedication feast was a known set and stated day returning every year in the return of such a month and of such a day of the month the Temple was reformed purged dedicated It cannot be so said of this day that it was the day on which our blessed Lord and Saviour was born into the world It is true many have been daring this way and one among the rest in some of our hearing from Luk. 2. 11. unto you is born this day the 25. of December But how hath God left them to their own seeking how bewildred have they been how benighted at noon day declaring to all whom the Lord hath instucted to disc●etion that there is no morning in them no light at all except it be that which is in the grave where the light is as darknesse and how great is that darkness we take leave to speak more to this And That it hath posed the best schollers in the world we mean Sect. 6. ¶ 2. best seen in the Records of antient times the two Scaligers the Father and the Son to search out our blessed Saviours birth day and after long search we speak it to our best remembrance as we are helped by one that read it thirty yeares agone and so some mistake may be we were saying after much search to little purpose they gave i● off as impossible to finde it out as to finde the Philosophers stone as Moses his grave whom the Lord God buried there Others not halfe so skilful have adventured on this Search as ever the more blind the more bold and have given us the set and stated day as you finde it in your Almanick mistaken as much in the day as in the weather So as the proverb may be verified of these Searchers as very lyars as the Alman●ck is which for one truth tells us ten lyes The wise Go● befooling the Star-g●zers still as once he did him in antient days so that noble Morneus tells us who foretold a goodly and pleasant year the very year when the flood came that Deluge of wrath which swallowed up ●ll Princes as one saith keep State in their works I● all a mans-actions be level to the lowest his person will be so too Much more the Prince of the Kings of the earth as he doth not love to let the Creature look to ●ha●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his designs but hideth himselfe and as we may say troubleth and muddeth his foot-steps these are as in the great waters not p●ssi●ly known to us the creature shall not ken them least he should say behold I know them So also this Isa 45. 15. 58. 7. onely Lord of time liketh it not that we should presume to know any more of the times and seasons then he alloweth us to know which is neither more nor lesse then what he hath revealed to us in his word This sufficeth u● to know when the fulnesse of time was come God sent forth his Son made of a Woman Make we a full stop there But if we will search farther which is our duty to do search we this to the bottom● and h●re we may ●ai●e of the very day to Is he born in our hearts we mean is hee Gal. 4. 19. conceived is he formed in us as our godly Ministers are have we been in travel about it that the sa●ing knowl●dge of Christ may be formed in us till this be we are not forme● for Christians we may have a ●●me we live but we are d●ad And when we are upon this search it will take up so much of our time that we shall not have a minute to spare in s●a●ching out the day he was born in the world Nor shall we regard two straws what others say of it that dares say and do any thing but what they should say and do which should not be a word or a work more but by warrant from his Word and light there which must be the Standard whereat we 〈◊〉 all we say or do in the matters of God the neerest con●e●●●●●●t of his Glory and of our own Souls for you know non loquenaum est de Deo sine lumine We will close this quickly we have bene longer in it because here is something of the Scripture and from the practise of our blessed Saviour to bear out the observation of this day Therefore we would adde this to that before which indeed carrieth much with us 2. That this birth day of Christ in the world lyeth as hidden S●ct 7. ¶ 1. and as we may say buried to us as Moses body was and the same God hid the one who buried the other And wi●l he take it well if we search into that he hath hi● and is it not observable that none of the Evangelists tell us what shape or proportion our Lords body had that none might adventure to picture him sure for he that pictureth him a Man dishonoureth him as much as if he had pictured him a Worm as he that presumeth to shew us the likenesse of God by an Angel dishonoureth God as much as they who made him like a Calfe if we do make him like any thing we make him nothing And so of this day there is altum silentium ne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quidem not a syllable not a title sounding that way And hath the Lord God hid it from us among the secrets of his wisedom He hath Then it is folly and more it is màdnesse for a man to search into those secrets to pluck out that Day thence and shew it openly to the world this is the day The Sun will not be looked into nor gazed upon it is such a vehemens sensibile that it will make the eye stark blind which is ●●eadfastly fixed upon the ou●side of it You may see work and walk by it the light from it but if you wil see ●nto the body of this light you shall neither see it nor your work nor your walk for the Sun will put out the eye that dares so gaze upon it And will the Maker of the Sun the Father of lights suffer man wre●ched man to neglect things revealed for that is th● manner and search into things hidden the secrets of his Wisedome we leave this upon your inmost thoughts We will end with this plaine saying and so the better befitting us Where the Scripture hath no tongus we must have no ears The Scripture is silent here as to the day of Christ birth if we will be speaking to it it is not speaking but prating and talking like Children and foole● or if we shall think that something we Tim. 5 13. 3 Joh. 10. have done we have but magno nisu