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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25462	Mysterium pietatis or The mysterie of godlinesse wherein the mysteries contained in the incarnation circumcision wise-men passion resurrection ascension. Of the Son of God, and comeing of the Holy-Ghost, are unfolded and applied. At Edinburgh. By Will. Annand, M.A. one of the ministers of that city, late of University Coll. Oxon.	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1671 (1671)	Wing A3220; ESTC R218527	157,174	382

Ancestors bequeathed ample legacies one is that whatever savors of that Ancient Doctrine established in the Church who for her age and Religious hoarinesse ought to be accounted venerable Invidiously is by some foolishly is by many houted upon as Superstitious Idolatrous and Anomolous to verity and Truth atteesting yet without ground that whatever in Divinis cannot be found in express text as Fornication should not be named among Saints Obtruding this upon some Disciples it cannot be supposed but this smal treatise because an ofspring of Antiquity shall be deemed scandalous and as a misshappen birth in the Midwifery of their forestalled fancy be smother'd as soon as parted from the womb of the Press and not buried but cast forth through the dung-gate of Obloquie or into the Kidrone of disdain NOT considering that if the question should be put concerning some approved practises and strongly pleaded for Resolves the legitimating of many Acts should be found to emerge from Scripture Logically that is Rationally understood conform to that rule a Minore ad Majus The Iewes appointing feasts as that of Dedication one great Jew instituting a feast as that of Purim the Zealous separating dayes from civil use to commemorat mercy the devout Magistrate designing such and such hours o● dayes for publick preaching Colledges Halls Hospitalls Schools solemnizing dayes in memory of their pious Founders Religious Benefactors exempteth the Church from Censure in enacting festivitys for her Lords birth passion or Resurrection SINCE the world could not contain the books had all things been writen which were done or said concerning it by Christ the world I inferr is to rest satisfied when any thing is done not contrary to the things in that one Book taught and delivered by him or at least not to condemn it which so much the less ●s to be done that the Judges of these exercises seldome if ever were they exactly scann'd are found seriously to reflect upon any one day in the year the matter wherefore these dayes were set apart which they condemne because fixed principaly upon one day ANABAPTISTS infringe that liberty our Lord hath procured for us in denying infant-baptism as if they were without the Covenant in which more higher priveledges are tacitly granted to the Jew then Christian he wanting the other enjoying the comforts of admitting his Son into that promise made of old unto the people the Almighty styling himself Lord God of your Fathers whereas the Baptized by them stands in a particular or personall Relation to the Same Lord from which there doth not flow so eminent Consolation in case of Death in Infancy AND such who will not allow the Church in separating times of worship for dazeling that is singular acts of Grace ought to reflect how the vesture of the Christian under Gospel-dispensation is our-tail'd being made more short more bare more thinn that is the Churches freedom more impared by the Death of he● Saviour then amplified and enlarged we b●●fore seeing the Phylactery of the Iew so extensively broad large honourably gracefull under Typicall oblations Synagogue and Temple-service the removeall of which discharging to the now Believer that piece of true devotion wherein the Faithfull of old appeared before God with joy haveing Roome that is liberty to make to keep Holy-day IT S granted that neither Jew nor Gentile men or Angel ●an dare or make offer to make a day holy now but to observe a day Holily or to separate a Civil day that is one of the six for a Holy use a Saint-like encompassing the throne of God for Celebrating praise or powring forth prayer as by many it is held good and performed in the week so ought it not to be judged supperstitious if done by others in the Return of the year IVDICIOUS Calvin expoundeth those places of St Paul Orthodoxly genuine Let no man judge you in meat or drinke or in respect of a holy day 2 Cal. 16. Ye observe day●s and months and times and years Gal. 4.10 One man esteemeth one day above another Rom. 14.5 For quis nisi Furioso who saith he but Mad-men will here understand any observation condemned save what ritualy shadowed Christ to come neque Ecclesias damnavero neither shall I censure marke the words those Churches who have instituted other solemn dayes for the Congregations Conveening together they Keeping from superstition of which they shall be free when appointed purely for good order and Discipline not as shadows of the Law c. Institut lib. 2. c. 8. S. 33. Whence its deducible that feasts so observed are not to be accounted either Jewish or Popish they being purely to Commemorat Christ already come and appointed for that end before either Pope or Romish Antichrist that is to say before the usurpation of the Bishop of Rome above all called gods FOR when the Records of the Church shall be exactly viewed and when again more diligently inspected and a search made after that then for greater security if once more there be a tumbling over the monuments of Ancient times the Time the Place the Persons by whom the dayes here marked were distinguished and first instituted shall never be found never be heard of so that it was a puzling and thorny question and for ought we find an Unanswered one proposed by our Late Soveraign April ● 1647. of blessed memory in these words I desire to be resolved why the new Reformers discharge the keeping of Easter the Celebration wherof being of the same Authority which changed the Iewish Sabbath into the Lords-day Saturday being no where discharged wherefor it must be the Churches Authority that changed the one and instituted the other therefore my opinion is that those who will not keep this Feast may as well return to the observation of Saturday and refuse the weekly Sunday when any body can shew me that herein I am in an error I shall not be a shamed to confesse and amend it till when you Meaning the Comissioners and Ministers treating in the Isle of Wight Know my mind C. R. THERE is no foot-steps of Antiquity indeed declaring the rise either of the one or other and those Arguments from proportion touching the vndenyed one wants not their influence in approving the other controverted the old Church by her own power abolishing the Iewish Sabbath though expresse law and Divine sanction for its observance is scattered throughout Moses the Prophets the present Church abrogating by not using Apostolical constitutions though enjoyned by the holy Ghost in proper terms as not abstaining from blood not anointing the sick not tarrying one for another before the Sacrament of the Supper in St. Pauls sense not having Deaconesses to attend the poor Clinick sick and bed-rid Against which such as are not distracted foameth not nor at the Churches desuetude thereof being convinced at the Reasonablnesse of her omission and her Authority so to doe which in the case under debate is also to be acquiesed in and

Chamber thereof least he fall upon thee and smite thee with more madnesse and astonishment of heart Deu. 28 28. THIS last expression minds me to caveat the Reader not to be angry at Helibore bec●use it 's called Christmas-flowre for it poor thing hurts no body that lets it alone and Herbalists are to be she●t not it spoyled for that Name as was the harmlesse Hawthorn tree near Glassenbury in Sommerset-shire in England which being alwayes observed to bloom so neare to this time that it was reported first to budde this day other Haw-thorns about it remaining dead and naked King Iames jestingly concluded theref●om our old style to be more R●gular then Romes new but others of latter years more seriously concluding the thorn guilty of old superstition grubbed it up by the roots and burned it to ashes which comeing to the ears of honest Christmas fearing her own fate from that of her Harbingers receiving notice by a publick order quietly retir'd and keep'd her self alive by the fireside of more Charitable Christians accounting it more honourable to ly by a flame then dy in one But this Bush hath almost put me from my path and hoping 〈◊〉 things we proceed to presse the Christian in all temptations to lift up his heart soul and all within him R●membring the of descent the Son of GOD I should have said of MAN approaching towards us in the Chariot of the Virgins womb moving upo● the wheels of Humilitie Charitie Mercy and holy Wisdom GOD uniting to MAN that ma● might be reconcil'd to God through inscrutable actings by new things Heaven being opened as in the Revelation Angels ascending and descending as in Iacobs dream joining earth and Heaven as in the Ladder the Father saying fear not as in Israels going dow● to Egypt here is the Door this is the gat● of Heaven as in the Patriarch's dread Th●● Lord shall be my God as in the pilgrims vow Gen. 20.21 BVT forget not as we ought to reverence and adore him as God in God so ought we to respect and benefit all me● since God in MAN became like one of us Our Lords Natalitials and birth being a mirrour representing divine Charity and bowels of compassion unto us and loves swavity or sweetnesse one with another his very swadling cloathes speaking patience and benevolence FROM the time of celebrating our Lords Advent in order of nature our days lengthen our nights shorten and was of old called Midwinter-day or Midwinter mass or feast The Solstice formerly being nearer to it then now however untill became Darknesse was upon the face of the earth and that so grosse that for eight hundreth years none had the gift of miracles for in working of them none proceeded our Saviour save Elisha only the Prophets taught the living neither cured the sick nor raised the dead that the world by his miracles might learn him to be the true Messiah the very sun of righteousnesse by whose beams the world being irradiated errours might vanish and Truth brake forth more and more for the conversion of men And that as the Cloud did Israel we by his manhood might move and be directed in our motions through the wildernesse in purenesse of behaviour and brightnesse of Doctrine that by his firy light we might have light and constantly walk as Children thereof old things passing away by the Spirits over shadowing and heart beleiving we might also become new in Christ Iesus who was once BORN and no more that the wo denounced against unbeliever● in all ages might deter the remiss and enforce a running into Bethlehem the house of brea● to see admiringly this great thing and neither complain nor deride nor sco●n or turn again to the Egypt of carnal p●ss●ssion bu● vivaci●usly embrace this Man in their arms living by faith confesse that he is come i● the flesh which whoso denys is an An●tichrist he as God giving so clear eviden●ces of his assuming flesh shewing even be●fore his greatest miracles infallible proofs o● his Man-hood cu●ing the deaf after sighing raising Lazarus after his weeping and shakeing of the Earth as he gave up the Ghost THE wedding then betwixt GOD and man in him being come let not the rooms be empty but the faster invite Iesus to the Marriage staying for your satisfaction in a stable untill your prepared hearts say as a Laba● Come in thou blessed of the Lord why tarriest thou without that darknesse of Soul and will being expelled thou mayst dwell yea encreass in light evangelical for ever as the earth receives increase of light for a time And as it puts one hence forward a new dress the fields cloathed with a fresh green the ●●ees in the gardens s●ed or lopped the Vines ●n the Vineyard pruned for the grapes grea●er sweetnesse so he the Vine being planted ●n the earth may through our sincere pray●rs be engrafted and inoculated in us that ●s the Vine we may have wherewith to glad the heart of God and of this MAN causeing this days exercise to have a voice prepare ●●e the way of the Lord lopping off all superfluity of naughtinesse and exc●●scencies of Vanity leaving the Drunkard to be drunk in the Night studying to be sober and vigilant as Children of Day avoiding somnolency or sleepinesse ebriety or drunkennesse the morning of temperance beginning with the Sun of right●ousnesse inforceing a being wise unto sobriety remembring the very supposed Father of this MAN was Ioseph who was known to be truly a good and a just man BVT the word Encompass imports the enliving prodigious ineffable mystery the most in comprehensible conception and miraculous nativity of our Lord of which sufficiency of knowledge terminating the understanding is that which mortality can no ways be obliedged to expect yet to attract eyes for yeelding respect to this astonishing birth whereon the building of our happinesse depends more then upon his rising from th● dead for from the grave some have risen bu● from a Virgins womb no man yet came an● affoords new yea strong consolation more over all his other actings are bottom'd upo● this of his birth therefore is it to be weigh●ed THE word expresseth encircling en●closing by which pure word insinuating hi● confinement in the Virgins womb an● abideing there as in his proper Cell unti● the time of life at which this MAN ap●peared in the world but the manner of hi● being compassed is concealed from us the Angels expression The Holy Ghost shal● overshaddow thee Remorats curiosity Go● thereby intending to conceal the manner pro●●seth wholly a belief of the matter a shadow being but the absence of light by the interposition of a body the darknesse of the womb confineth our eye-sight and the power of the Highest dischargeth prying TO shew that he was born not to be admired or gazed at were easie and to prove that he was born for us is that which we all believe to demonstrate he was not born for himself but given to us that hath been heard from