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A26157	The grand charter of Christian feasts, with the right way of keeping them in a sermon preach'd at a meeting of several of the natives and inhabitants of the county of Buckingham, in the Church of St. Mary Le-Bow, Nov. 30, 1685 / by Lewis Atterbury ...	Atterbury, Lewis, d. 1693.	1686 (1686)	Wing A4156; ESTC R8396	17,372	36

under a pretence of zeal for God and the Priviledges of the People Hear their Canting All the Lords people are holy Numb 16.3 Diotrephes loves the preheminence and makes such a Schism that St. John cannot be received though a beloved Disciple a Bishop and an eminent Apostle 3 John 9. The Instances of Schism and Faction amongst us have been too many for me either to recal or recite We have had attempts on our Doctrine our Discipline our Worship all slandered and misrepresented by men of different Interests and Opinions the Word of God miserably wrested by some and excepted against by others traduced as a dead letter supplanted by Traditions and subordinated to Enthusiasms our Sacraments have been questioned their Original disputed and their number and way of administration impeach'd our Churches have been prophaned our Liturgy decry'd Episcopacy struck at and for some years removed root and branch The very function of the Ministry proclaimed useless and their maintenance burthensom a yoke intolerable though no man pays of his own amongst us unless his piety excite him to be a Benefactor As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so men of corrupt minds and Reprobate concerning the Faith do still resist the Truth rent the seamless Coat of Christ and disturb the Peace and Government of the Church And all this with an Hosanna The Lord be glorified A solemn pretence to do God service Isa 66.5 John 16.2 It is very sad that Religion should be abused to serve mens corrupt and sinister designs but no more than foretold and continually practised by ill men as well as by the Devil who upon this occasion can be content to appear in Samuels Mantle 1 Sam. 28.14 and transform himself into an Angel of Light This I can say boldly Had it been as easie to gratifie mens Interests and satisfie their Humours as it is to answer their Arguments the breaches in our Church and State had been all closed long e're now God hath smitten the great house with breaches and the little house with clefts Amos 6.11 which divisions of our Reuben call for sad thoughts great searchings of heart but this is our comfort the Devil hath his Limits and God who hath made the sand a Boundary to the waves of the Sea by a perpetual Decree so that though they roar and lift up themselves they cannot pass over it he hath limited his Instruments these Children of the Devil and Enemies of all Righteousness that will not cease to pervert the ways of God Acts 13.10 when their Ephah is full and their sins ripe they shall proceed no further but their folly shall be manifest to all men as that of Jannes and Jambres also was 2 Tim. 3.8 or as it fared with Elymas who was strucken with blindness God shall send them strong delusions and give them up to seared Consciences they shall split themselves on the rocks of Superstition and Atheism or loose themselves in a Labyrinth the mazes and mists of Errour and at last seek about for some to lead them Acts 13.11 God hath given us many sad Examples Let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall 2 Thess 2.10 For the Glory of God and Honour of our Country let us persevere in Religion and Loyalty 4. The Leaven of the Sadducees or the Leaven of Doctrine Matt. 16.5.6 The Doctrine of the Pharisees had its Leaven but the Sadducees were were most tainted The Sadducees call'd in question Angels and Spirits denied rewards or punishments after this life held the Soul was annihilated at death believed not the Resurrection maintain'd free will and liberty of prophesying allow'd of no Scripture but the Pentateuch the five Books of Moses Matt. 22.23 Mark 12.18 Luke 20.27 Acts 4.1 and therefore our Saviour convinceth them out of Exodus Chap. 3.6 Matt. 22.32 Hymeneus and Philetus who say the Resurrection is already past viz. that there is no Resurrection but the spiritual that of the Soul from sin or the renewing of the state of the World under the Gospel These and all other profane and vain bablings are to be shun'd 2 Tim. 2 16. for they will increase to more ungodliness and their words will eat as doth a canker The Athenians spent their time in hearing and telling some new thing Acts 17.21 and it is the Character of our Novellists that they have itching ears and heap to themselves Teachers which argues they are carnal cannot endure sound Doctrine and have not the Spirit as the Apostle determines 2 Tim. 4.3 For our parts we are to continue in the good old way confirm our selves in the Truths we have heard and been assured of hold fast the form of sound words and contend for the Doctrine delivered to the Saints If any man teach otherwise and consents not to wholesom words even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Doctrine which is according to godliness he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railings evil surmisings perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth supposing that gain is godliness from all such St. Paul tells us we must withdraw our selves 1 Tim. 6.3 4 5. 5. The Leaven of the Pharisees or Hypocrisie The Pharisees were full of corrupt Glosses addicted much to Superstition prescribed Phylacteries ty'd themselves to Phrases and Observances and little else were all for leaves and no fruit and taught for Doctrines the Commandments of men Matt. 15.9 But Wo to him that saith to the wood Awake to the dumb stone Arise it shall teach behold it is laid over with gold and silver and there is no breath at all in the midst of it Hab. 2.19 The Pharisee had the Hypocrite leaven in his face to make him look sour that men might see he had fasted Rabbi in his tongue and rancour in his heart they would speak Christ fair when they came to intrap him and give him with Judas a kiss and an hail Master at the same time they betrayed him they are all Gabbatha whited Sepulchres beautiful without but Golgotha full of rottenness sculls and dead mens bones within pay Tithes of Mint and Cummin and neglect the greater matters of the Law compass Sea and Land to make their Proselytes shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men neither enter themselves nor suffer others make long Prayers for a pretence and devour widows houses cleanse the outside of the cup but stuff the inside with extortion and excess Our Religion teacheth us another Lesson that bodily exercise profiteth little and that we should exercise our selves to real godliness which hath the promises of this life and that which is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 God is a Spirit calls for truth in the inward parts and will be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth John 4.24 Man judgeth by the outward appearance but God looketh to the heart 1 Sam. 16.5 From those who have but a form of godliness and deny the power we are

THE GRAND CHARTER OF Christian Feasts WITH THE Right Way of keeping them IN A SERMON PREACH'D AT A Meeting of several of the Natives and Inhabitants of the County OF BUCKINGHAM In the Church of St. Mary Le-Bow Nov. 30. 1685. By Lewis Atterbury D. D. Rector of Milton in the said County LONDON Printed for Christopher Wilkinson at the Black-Boy over against St. Dunstans Church 1686. IMPRIMATUR Z. Isham R.P.D. Henr. Episc Lond. a Sacris 1686. TO MY HONOURED FRIENDS The honble Jam. Herbert William Andrews Esq John Backwell Esq Owen Norton Esq Roger Price Esq Thomas Atterbury Esq Mr. John Saunders Mr. Edward Carter Mr. Thomas Woodcock Mr. Benjamin Parrot STEWARDS of the Buckingham-shire Feast Worthy Sirs THE particular respects I have for each of You personally as well as my due regard to those unanimous desires by which I was summon'd to Your Service entitle You solely to the following Sermon which was preach'd at Your joint instance and is now publish'd for Your satisfaction Promoting Charity and mutual Society is a Design beyond exception and the proper Expedient to heal and compose our present Animosities and Divisions That your Generous Endeavours may be successful and the commendable Example You have given effectually followed is the constant desire and daily prayer of GENTLEMEN Your very humble Servant Lewis Atterbury 1 COR. V. 8. Let us therefore keep the Feast not with the old Leaven neither with the Leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and Truth THE Jews formerly Gods only People who had the custody of his Sacred Oracles Rom. 3.2 a Priviledge peculiar to them He shewed his words unto Jacob his statutes and his judgments unto Israel He hath not dealt so with any Nation and for his judgments they have not known them Psal 147.19 20. These had their solemn Feasts on several occasions and most of them appointed by God himself Three times in the year every Male was by Gods especial Command to appear before him at Jerusalem and none to come empty handed viz. at 1. The Feast of unleavened Bread or the Passeover at the beginning of Harvest on the 14th of the month Nisan or Abib answering to part of our March and April This 14th was called τὸ πάσχα the 15th ἑορτὴ τοῦ πάσχα and the 16th δευτέρα τοῦ πάσχα as Levit. 23.11 where what is rendred the morrow after the Sabbath is to be understood the morrow after the Passeover For in those Feasts which consisted of many days the first and last were term'd Sabbaths On this δευτέρα the beginning of their Harvest was offered a sheaf of the first-fruits to sanctifie all the after-fruits thoroughout the Land Levit. 23.10 and until this was offered they were neither to eat nor reap the Corn. 2. The Feast of Weeks at the end of Harvest called Pentecost because the fiftieth day after the second of the Passeover which fifty days were the time of their Harvest on this Pentecost were offered two Wave-Loaves Levit. 23.17 not only as an Eucharistical oblation but in token of the Harvest finished 3. The Feast of Tabernacles kept seven days from the 15th of the month Tisri to the 21st Deut. 16.13 15. and Levit. 23.34 which time they dwelt in Tabernacles made of Boughs after the manner of Arbours Plutarch says principally of Ivy but we find mention in the Bible of four distinct kinds Levit. 23.40 thought to be the Citrine the Palm the Myrtle and the Willow And this in memory of their Forefathers dwelling in Tents and Tabernacles as is clear from Levit. 23.43 which is properly rendred Booths not as the Caldee Paraphrase the shadow of a Cloud in memory of the protection of the Israelites by a Cloud in the Wilderness or as others to thank God for their Vintage gathered in at that time of the year The Sacrifices offered were seventy young Bullocks every day alike only differing in the number thirteen the first twelve the second eleven the third and so forwards according to the Languages of the seventy Nations setting forth their coming in all under the Government of the Messias the hope and expectation of the Gentiles God required also The New-Moons the Expiation the Sabbatical year and the Jubilee 1. The Feast of the New-Moons the First day of the seventh month Tisri Levit. 23.24 The seventh month according to their Sacred but the first according to their civil accompt and may be term'd their New-years day In this as in all the New Moons 1. They repaired to the Prophets 2 Kings 4.22 2. They neither bought nor sold Amos 8.4 3. They had especial Sacrifices viz. two Bullocks a Ram and seven Lambs and one Kid of the Goats besides the daily Sacrifice Numb 28.11.15 But 1. In this besides all the aforesaid Sacrifices there was offered moreover one Bullock one Ram seven Lambs and a Goat Numb 29.1 6. 2. They likewise blowed with Trumpets Psal 81.3 some think in memory of Isaac's delivery by a Ram. Or 2 As St. Basil to mind them of the delivery of the Law for the Trumpets made of Rams Horns Josh 6.4 Or 3. As others of the Day of Judgment which shall be with the Sound of a Trumpet Matt. 24.31 2. The Feast of Expiation commanded Levit. 23.27 Chap. 16.30 Numb 29.7 to be the tenth day of the month Tisri our September when sailing dangerous Acts 27.9 On this the Priest confessed to God his own and the Peoples sins and disburthened them on the head of a Scape-goat in imitation of which the Grecians it 's said used to expiate their Cities by throwing down some condemn'd persons from the Precipices into the Sea offering them to Neptune with these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be thou a reconciliation for us and sacrificing men in time of Pestilence which they call'd καθάρματα both which words the Apostle makes use of 1 Cor. 4.13 as Budeus observes with allusion to their Customs 3. As every seventh day was to be a constant Sabbath a Rest as the word Schabbath from whence our English word Sabbath comes signifies and is applied Synecdochically to the whole week Luke 18.12 and to all Festivals Ezek. 20.21 but usually taken for the seventh day of the week which God hath set apart for his service call'd if some other solemn Feast fell in with it Sabbathum magnum as John 19.36 an High-day the Feast of the Passeover happening on it that year So every seventh year was to be a Sabbatical year Levit. 25.8 9. The Sabbath-day signified that they themselves were the Lord's and therefore they ceased from their works to do God's and the year signified that both they and their Land were the Lord's for this year their Land was neither till'd nor manur'd Levit. 25.4 though the owner might gather for the maintenance of himself and family yet he was not to sow or hedge his field or lock up his Corn-yard but let all be common and then Creditors were to be discharged their debts whence it was