Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	call_v	day_n	week_n	1,294	5	10.0218	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86187	Certain quæries touching the rise and observation of Christmas; propounded to the consideration of all such as are zealously (but blindly) affected towards the observation of it. / To which an answer is desired and expected by Joseph Heming.	Heming, Joseph.	1648 (1648)	Wing H1419; Thomason E476_41; ESTC R205524	1,521	9

CERTAIN QVAERIES TOUCHING The Rise and Observation OF CHRISTMAS Propounded to the consideration of all such as are zealously but blindly affected towards the Observation of it To which an answer is desired and expected BY JOSEPH HEMING LONDON Printed Ann Dom 1648. Certaine Quaeries touching the rise and observation of Christmas c. Quaere I. WHether such religious customes as are binding to all the Churches of Iesus Christ ought not to have sure footing upon the Word of God or Apostolicall practice II. Whether you can substantially prove that Christ was borne on the 25 of December and what your proofes are III. Whether the celebration of that day grant he was borne on it can be clearely warranted by you from Scripture and what your Scriptures are IV. Whether you can cleare it by sound consequence from the New Testament though not set downe there in totidein verbis V. Whether you can do it by universall tradition VI Whether in case it can be evidenced by none of these viz. plaine Text sollid Inference universall Tradition it be not a moere humane invention and so Will-worship And how you will one day acquit your selves before God for placing and crying up mens Inventions instead of the Institutions of Iefus Christ And whether it were not faithfull dealing with poore simple people to tell them that you have neither of these to warrant it VII Since daies and times commanded by God himselfe to be observed under the Law were and are unlawfull under the Gospell Whether daies and times commanded by men and not by God under the Gospell are not lesse lawfull VIII Whether the true and genuine Interpretation of Christmas be Christ man And whether to perswade people t is so be not to abuse and delude them And whether we may not as well interpret Candlemas Candleman Michaelmas Michaelman as Christmas Christman IX Whether the Saints are bound to rejoice in the birth of Christ on that day men superstitiously call Christmas more then at other times And whether the Lords day be not the day appointed for them to rejoice on X. Whether Christmas day ought in any respect to be esteemed above another of the Weeke daies And whether people may not without offence to God follow their lawfull vocations on that day XI Whether you thinke the Parliament and Assemblie have erred and played the fooles in condemning and rasing out Holy-daies not warranted in the Word And whether to observe them be not highly to dislike and flatly to contradict in point of practice at least their proceedings in order to a Reformation XII Whether since most men and women in England do blindlie and superstitiouslie beleeve Christ was borne on that day preaching on it doth not nourish and strengthen them in that beleefe XIII Whether this Feast had not its rise and growth from Christians conformitie to the mad Feasts Saturnalia kept in December to Saturne the Father of Gods in which there was a Sheafe offered to Ceres Goddesse of Corne a hymne in her praise called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} And whether those Christians by name to cloake it did not afterwards call it Yule and Christmas as though it were for Christs honour And whether it be not yet by some more ancient then truelie or knowinglie religious called Yule and the mad plaies or sports wherewith t is celebrated like those Saturnalia Yule-games And whether from the offering of that Sheafe to Ceres from that song in her praise from those gifts the Heathens gave their friends in the Calends of Ianuarie ominis gratia did not arise or spring our blazes Christmas Kariles and New-yeares gifts XIV Whether conformitie to and retention of heathenish Customes be commendable in Christains sutable or agreeable with Gospell principles though under pretext of Christ Honour and Worship XV Whether you are not bound to prove your practice for the conviction and satisfaction of your Brethren whose duty it is to walke with you in things agreeable to the mind of Christ And in case you cannot Whether you ought not to acknowledge your errour lay downe your practice as others have done theirs no longer befooling and misleading the People committed to your charge XVI Whether in case you returne no answer to these Quaeries I have not ground sufficient to conclude you utterly unable to give any rationall account of your practice now put upon it From my Study in Vttoxeter 1648. FINIS