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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	apostle_n	evangelist_n	nativity_n	1,294	5	12.6731	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17571	The altar of Damascus or the patern of the English hierarchie, and Church policie obtruded upon the Church of Scotland	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1621 (1621)	STC 4352; ESTC S107401	125,085	228

whole Parish To the minister himselfe either in reading some Psalmes each day of every month or of the rest of the Bible partly out of the Canonicall Scripture partly out of the Apocrypha bookes and that within the yeare The reading of Psalmes and other parts of Scripture is not preaching but the word read is like a loafe unbroken or not divided in peeces and morsels And therefore it is not a right set forme of service to prescribe all the Psalmes to bee read within the space of a month or so many lessons of the Scripture within a year to take up the time which should be spent in preaching Lesse Scripture read and withall explained and opened up to the use of the hearers is more profitable And if the other prejudge this howbeit the matter be good for it is the good word of God so much as is canonicall yet the forme is naught and in this case unlawfull Then as for the reading of the Psalmes they make daily prayers of them when as they bee not all prayers or else the matter of these which are pra●ers doth not agree to the present time and state of the Church but are read hand over head The Apocrypha bookes should not receive that honour as to be read publickly in the Church as canonicall Scripture is Because they containe sundry false and frivolous things and suppose not yet they are not the trompets which are set apart and sanctified by God to bee blowne by his priests in his temple The church of the Iewes read no other scripture but Canonical Moses and the Prophets and the Psalmes and the Christian Church in the purer times onley the monuments of the Prophets and Apostles The Councell of Laodicea decreed the same also The reading of them in the Church hath made the people beleeve that they are portions of the old and new testament Sundry of the Prelates take texts out of the Apocrypha sayth the authour of the petition to the Queen Divers chapters of the Apocrypha are appointed to be read for extraordinarie lessons upon Feast daies and some parts of the canonicall Scripture are omitted The directories which direct in such things as belong to the whole Parish are anent observing feast dayes and daies of abstinence from flesh They have a number of feasts and fasting daies more then the Iewes had appointed to them The holy dayes observed by them besides the weekely Sabboths are these following the dayes of the Feasts of the Circumcision of the Epiph●●ie of the Purification of the blessed Virgin of S. Matthias the Apostle of the annuntiation of the virgine of Saint Mark the Euangelist of Saint Philip and Iacob the Apostles of Christs Ascension of the nativitie of Iohn Baptist of S. Peter the Apostle of Iames the Apostle of Bartholomew the Apostle of S. Matthew the Apostle of S. Michael the Arch-Angel of S. Luke the Euangelist of S. Simon and Iude the Apostles of all Saints of Saint Andrew the Apostle of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Christs Nativitie of S. Steven the Martyr of S. Iohn the Euangelist of the holy Innocents Munday and Tuesday in Easter weeke and Munday and Tuesday in Whitson weeke This is their number and order as it is set downe in the beginning of their service booke They keep the same order in the observation of them that the Popish church observeth with the same distance of time from other upon the same dayes Gospels Epistles Collects and proper lessons the same howbeit some time fewer with the like observation of rest And howbeit S. George be left out in this reckoning yet is his day honoured This Saint saith Barrow hath no small entertainment with his solemne procession and that by no small estates but even the greatest of the land with Cornets Trumpets Harbe Shackebuts Ps●lteries Du●●imer and all instruments of musicke c This Saint beside his noble ordour of Knighthood hath also his peculiar Chaplaine Palatine of the order who it to weare a gold ring on his thomb The holy dayes are dedicate to the Trinite to Christ alone to Saints to Angels As for the day dedicated to the honour of the Trinitie Bellarmine doth confesse that it is recent that it was not observed at Rome in the dayes of Pope Alexander the third It was celebrated in some particular Provinces but not received into Rome till the time of Pope Iohn the 22. It was thought needlesse seeing the Trinitie was remembred either one way or other in the daily service but especially upon the Lords day for the Preface of the Trinitie day was of old sung upon the Lords day and the Creed wherein the Trinitie is remembred was not omitted If there should be a holy day for every great mysterie of our religion then must we have many more holy daies then we have yet had If a particular day for the Trinitie entred but of late in the Church for the respects foresaid then what mysterie of Religion is remembred frequently on the Lords day in hymne prayer confession creed or sermon needeth not a speciall day and a set service with bodily rest for that mysterie You see then that the feast which was rejected a long time by the Popes themselves the English doe retaine As for the feastgoelonging to the life death of Christ the most ●enoumed most ancient is Easter and yet it was not observed by the Apostles The hote contentions about it whether it should be observed upon the day of the full Moone or the Sabboth after declareth that they did not institute it for they could have easily decided that question whether shall we be conforme to the Iewes in observing the same day with them or not yea the Apostle 1. Cor. 5. 8. speaking of the celebration of our Easter tyeth us not to a certaine number of dayes as the Iewes were who after the eating of the Lambe might not have any levened bread in their house for seven daies but sayth ours is all the yeare long to be observed ye through our whole life with other kind of unleavned bread both by particular Churches persons No where doth he refer us to anniversary Easter The Christian Pentecost was not observed by the Apostles howsoever sometime some of thē went up to Ierusalem at the Iewish Pentecost to confirme or ●ucrifie the Iewes as long as the Temple stood If the Apostles thēselves upon whom the gifts of the H. Spirit were powred that day did not observ it themselves who were the receivers of the benefit what warrant haue we to observe it If neither Easter nor Pentecost were Apostolical institutions far lesse the Ascension day and the Nativitie The feast of Circumcision Bellar. saith is very recent it is to be observed that they have a service day or holy time for Christs circumcis but not for his Baptism for upon the E●iph day they make mention of the 3 wisem the star but nothing of Chr. Baptism in their

G●spels and Epistles In a word all the dayes dedicate to Christs severall acts are all humane inventions some later some more ancient Iewish formes wherwith that people was brought up under the pedagogie of the law a rudimentarie kind of instruction not beseeming the Christian Church nor answerable to the cleare light of the Gospell The Iewes anniversarie dayes were abolished not onely for their peculiar service or signification of things to come but altogether howbeit memorials of by-past benefits Christ and his Apostles did institure no day for remembrance of a particular benefit no not the weekly sabboth let be an anniversary day For the weekly Lords day was not appointed for remembrance of the particular benefit of Christs resurrection but for the whole worship of God If the Lords day were referred directly and expressely to the commemoration of the resurrection then should it be the proper and peculiar service of the Sabboth then should we not have at all a day determinate in the new ●estament and institute to worship God for himselfe and all his workes in generall There was then no memoriall dayes appoynted in the new testament but a morall day for the worship of God The sacrament as often as it is celebrate it is a memoriall of his passion When the word is preached Christ is crucified before our eyes But dayes of particular commemorations of some speciall actions with solemnitie and cessation from worke we have none nor was it the intention of Christ or his Apostles If there be no warrant to dedicate anniversarie dayes to Christ farre lesse to the virgin Mary and the rest of the Saints and of Angels Their holy dayes of Saints are called the Saints dayes as well as Christs dayes are called his And they have their collects gospels epistles as well as Christ hath his and what reason have they to have some anniversarie remembrances of so many Saints of the new testament and never one for any of the old Can they give any reason of this difference but a ●opish one And among these of the Christian Church why is Timothy and Titus and many ●oe not remembred as the rest are Is the 〈◊〉 purification of our Lady upon the candle●masse day a matter of such moment that it is to be honoured with some speciall day and actions of greater importance are not so to be celebrate This night the Maior of London kneeleth downe at S. Edwins tombe in P●ules Church and sayth a P●ter noster as Barro● reporteth If I should insist upon every particular day and rip up their collects gospells pis●les hymnes and songs I should be too pro●ixe For we should fall upon many fooleries and impertinent application of the word of God In the collect from Christmas to New-yeares day they are appointed to say that Christ was borne upon this day when as it be●oved him to be borne onely upon one day 〈◊〉 it is grounded upon an erroneous conceit of Zacharies high priesthood that he was born ●n the 25. day of December In the collect upon Innocents day it is sayd that the infants whom Herod murthered were Gods witnesses Athanasius creed is to honour the high dayes 〈◊〉 not the common creed and is appointed to be read onely upon certaine holy dayes it must not grace other dayes Venite may not serve at Easter as it doth all the yeare before and after follow Domine labia mea They have no reason for these and other like superstitious vanities but such as Durandus or any other papist can give them out of their reasonless● Rationalls What holynesse they place in their holy dayes may be seene in that they haue a stricter rest enjoyned upon them not they urge for the sabbath whereas the Lord required a stricter rest upon the Sabbath then upon other dayes appointed by himself Then againe their principall feasts haue Eaves and devout fastes going before Thirdly they say they will not change them to let us see that they may be changed but retaine the same dayes which the papists observe and which they say were consecrate and made more holie then other dayies be the actions which were wrought on these dayes as the manger and crosse of tree was with the truth of Christs body Even howbeit this reteyning without change doeth nourish in the people both a superstitious and popish conceit of the holynes of the day and the erroneous conceits that Christ was borne on such a day Iohn Baptist on such a day that Zacharie was high priest etc. To let passe other popish opinions of worship and merite The most part observe it with masking dancing gluttonie games enterludes For the which superstitious and erroneous conceits and incorrigible abuses they ought to be abolished suppose in themselves they had bene never so indifferent Besides their Eaves they have their ordinary fridaies Ember weeks and lent fast And if they say that abstinence from flesh onely is cōmanded for some politicall respects I would demand wherefore is the minister or Curate enjoyned after sermon homilie or exhortation to declare unto the people whether there be any holy dayes or fasting daies the week following Are not the people commanbed likewise to repaire to the Church to pray and to heare divine service Their lent beginneth as the popish doeth upon Ashwednesday with a terrible cōmination where are pronounced many bitter curses and the people answer ratifie every one of them with their own mouth saying Amen The priest before he utter the curses after the lettanie is sayd goeth to the pulpit to imitate the levites who pronunced curses upon mount Ebal and never but once he saith Brethren in the primitive Church there was a godly discipline that at the beginning of lent such persons as were notorious sinners were put to open pennance and punished in this world that their soules might be saved in the day of the Lord and that others admonished by their exāple might be the more afraid to offend In stead wherof untill the same discipline may be restored again which thing is much to be wished etc. it is thought good that at this time should be read the generall sentences of Gods cursings against impenitent sinners Yee see that corporall and afflictiue penance is commended for good discipl for the disci of the prim church for the discipl of lent and espetially on ashweonesday that it is wished to be restored again I beleeve thē It is displing ashes shriving and such other gear that they would haue In the last collect upon the first day of lent or ashwednesday the priest or Curate sayth Be favourable to thy people which turne unto the in weeping fasting and prayer Is this to fast for ciuil respects onely for the main tenance of sea faring men and preservation of cattell The Priests and Clerks kneeling say the Psalme miserere mei Deus The prayers and special exhortations tend to begin their repentance that day The week before Easter hath a prescript service