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truth_n	seek_v	spirit_n	worship_v	7,034	5	9.8542	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57240	The substance of a letter occasioned by a discourse of the time called Christmas, from an abuse on it	Richardson, Richard, 1623?-1689.	1680 (1680)	Wing R1396; ESTC R28478	9,501	13

year so it should be a continual Feast as a good Conscience is if the Kingdom of God consisted in meat and drink which the Apostle saith it doth not but in Righteousness Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost I have read in several of the Fathers as Chrysostom Jerom Theodoret Euthymius That God indulged several things to the Jews as to Children to bring them off from Idols and from performing them to Idols as in this of Feasts because they loved Belly-Chear God suffered them to be done to himself in their own respect not his who took no Pleasure in them Ps 50 51. And on that of the Prophet Spake I a word of Sacrifices c. only obey my Voice Rabanus Lyra note on Jer. 7. Isa 66. That Ordinances concerning such things were not given till after they had worshipped the Golden Calf as they had learned of the Egyptians and sate down to eat and drink and rose up to play But Christ put an end to such things when the time was come that God sought such to worship him as did it in Spirit and Truth and not their own Bellies He appointed no Worship then with Feasting nor with Fasting And as for the Types of the Paschal Lamb c. he fulfilled put an end to them all that Priesthood with its Rites He commanded to give to Caesar the things that are Caesar 's and to God the things that are God's And he gave Tribute to Caesar though free and his Apostle Therein we have his Example too as well as God's Command to the Jews to live quietly under Nebuchadnezzar But neither commanded to give to them the Honour due to himself to appoint his Worship for him Must God be at Man's Courtesie CHRIST placed in their PANTHEON as those called the Fathers reasoned with them of old who consecrated them for Gods whom themselves pleased and appointed Feasts and Temples for them God appointed his own Worship in the Law and left it not to Man to appoint it much less in the Gospel when it is promised Ye shall be all taught of God And he appoints his own Ministers whom he pleaseth not Man He saith In vain do ye worship me teaching for Doctrines the Traditions or Commands of Men. It hath been accounted a good Protestant Plea to argue from the Scripture negatively There is no Command in the Scripture nor Example that I remember besides Herod's to keep a Birth-day neither therein doth the Time thereof appear Though some of the Ancients would seem to prove it from Luke 1. Luke 1 5. compared with 1 Chr. 24 13. upon mistake of Zacharias's being High Priest wherein the Uncertainty of the Testimony of the Fathers alone doth appear who as Scaliger sayes concluded thereupon against the Scriptures that to be the time from the High Priests time of burning Incense whereas it appears plainly there that Zacharias was of the 8th course to burn Incense in his course in the Temple only And on that Error Scaliger saith whom the Learned call The great Critick of Times depended the Institution of the 25th of December not before the year 400. But there 's more ground or argument from Luke 1.26 that it was not at that time but in Summer or about the time of his Suffering according to what Clem. Alex. sayes of the Eastern People Aegyptians Arabians c. If the sixth Moneth there spoken of was the sixth Moneth of the Year as well as of Elizabeth as the Language of the Scripture is of the Fathers according to the Jews reckoning And the Rule in Interpretations is according to Bp. Andrews on Comm. In ambiguis utrumque Both Senses to be taken when analogy of Faith will all on it as it will here And if those that Clemens Alex. speak of did conclude from hence though uncertain yet 't was more safe than for the other to conclude upon a certain falshood But that as the Author excuses it The Fathers using the Scripture Language and Jews Manner in the numerical Title of the Moneths as we do wherein he has given us Authority from the Fathers as well as Scriptures for naming the Moneths not after the Heathenish manner and Names of their Gods that they should thereby mistake the 9th moneth of the Egyptians for the 9th moneth of the Jews is as credible as the other Miracles that they should mistake Summer for Winter as aforesaid and both are Arguments against the constant Tradition of it Some will say What a business 't is to keep a Day in Remembrance of Christ without Scripture-proof And we say What a business they make of it without Scripture and therefore in Point of Worship against it according to the Protestants as afore so as to abuse People about it in honour of it The Protestants at the Council of Basil maintained That if Monkery was not of God 't was of the Devil Comenius Schlavon Hist so said Luther of the Pope And what a business might some say to bow the Knee to Christ's Image to take his Body as they thought in a Wafer Cake in their Mouth Were those stubborn and wilful people that would rather be burnt than do it in Q. Mary's dayes What a matter 't was thought the Greeks for the Jews to take a piece of Flesh in their Mouth to escape Death in the Maccabees and for the Children in Daniel to seed of the King's Meat and Drink The Commands of Men seem light to them that know not or regard not the Commands of God But we say as the Apostles did 'T is better to obey God than Man Some will say It gives Offence so did the Preaching of the Cross to Jew and Gentile Not to offend God is no Offence given to Man but taken by Man To have a Conscience void of Offence towards God and Man was Paul's Exercise and so 't is ours yet he did not forbear to obey God nor did the other Apostles because Men took Offence at it and thought they did God Service in Killing them the Jews were mad against Paul for teaching the Gentiles not to observe their Law though it was commanded by God as the Temple was as these Traditions never were but by the Pope their Lord God as the Canonists call him which makes them so mad against us as threatning to burn us Never did Protestants use to threaten to burn Papists for not keeping the Pope's holy dayes Never were Sheep known to worry Wolves who are distinguished by their bloody Chaps as Chrysostom notes though they may get on Sheeps Clothing Christ gives a plainly discerning difference By their Fruits ye shall know them whether they be Thorns and Thistles for they bear Prickles Christ notes his Sheep by hearing his Voice others hear only mens voices And he says They are a Little Flock but the Nations and National Worshippers are Multitudes All the World wonders after the Beast and say Who is able to contend with him to disobey him or say