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A10073	The beauty of holines: or The consecration of a house of prayer, by the example of our Sauiour A sermon preached in the chappell at the free-schoole in Shrewsbury. the 10. day of September, Anno Dom. 1617. At the consecration of the chappell, by the Right Reuerend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of Couentrey and Lichfield. By Sampson Price, Doctor in Diuinity, and chapleine in ordinary to his Maiesty.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1618 (1618)	STC 20328; ESTC S100873	24,384	42

his iourney towards Hierusalem Act. 20. So that if any question it Why doth one day excell another when as all the light of euery day in the yeere is of the sunne It may be answered Answere By the Knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished and he altered seasons and Feasts Some of them hath hee made High dayes Eccl. 33 8. hallowed them and some of them hath he made ordinary dayes Would wee know the Authors of Feasts to Iewes or Christians By the commandement of God himself in the mouth of Moses those were ordained Leu. 23. and some others called Regular Ordinary and vsuall Or by the Will of the Magistrate vpon some reasonable cause yet no part of Will-worship being not contra Legem Dei against the Law of God but secundum analogiam Legis according to the analogie of the Law as this feast of Dedication that feast of the 14. and 15. of the moneth Adar Est 9.21 and some others The Iewes not onely added to the number of the Feastes instituted by Moses but augmented the solemnity of those feasts which Moses appointed For whereas Dies Calendarum or Neomeniae the first day of the moneth or Feast of New Moones was appointed onelie for sacrifice to God and not mentioned amongst those solemne festiuities yet the Iewes appointed for the encrease of the seruice of God that not onely sacrifices should bee offered in them but also men should abstaine from all seruile labour and so make it an Holy-day and great solemnity Thus was it in Dauids time Blow vp the Trumpet in the new Moone in the time appointed on our solemn feast day Ps 81. It was celebrious for the benefite of gouernment Psal 81.3 Nye de Lyra. for in the New-Moone there appeared the change of time and therefore was it so vsed in Elishaes time to whom when the Shunamite woman desired to goe for her dead child her husband sayd Wherfore wilt thou go to him to day It is neyther New-Moone nor Sabbath 2. King 4. 2. King 4.23 Which argueth that they were freed from labour because her husband insinuated that shee should goe vpon a day when hee might bee at leasure from his businesse making in that respect a similitude betwixt the Calends and the Sabbath and in S. Aug Aug. l. de 10 Apocd 15 c. 3. time reprouing the Iewish woman holding that they were better to spinne or doe any worke then immodestly daunce in theyr New Moons For the Feasts of Christians Christ instituted no Holy-dayes in his life time he abrogated not the law of Moses but obserued those Feasts Neyther did the Apostles till the Law of Moses beeing dead it might be buried honorably It was not fit that Christian Religion should haue so many ceremonies or Holy-daies in the Cradle as it had in the full age of it Yet in the Apostles time the Lords day Apoc. 1 10. Act. 20 7. 1. Cor. 16 2. Mar. 16.2 Oecumen Anselm Primas Apoc. 1. our Sunday was instituted by the Apostles in remembrance of the Resurrection of our Sauiour For the Sabbath is ceremoniall for the manner though morall for the matter The substance of it is de iure diuino though some ceremonies of it de iure humano The Iewes celebrated theyr Sabbath the seuenth day Wee the eight They gaue God the last day of the Weeke Philo. l de opificio Mundi wee the first They kept theyr Sabbath in honour of the Worlds creation but wee ours in memoriall of the worlds Redemption a worke of greater might and mercie The Most of our great festiuities Aug ad Lanuar Clem l. 5 c. 20. S. Austen ascribeth it to the authoritie of the Apostles or general Councels as the Feasts of Christs Natiuity Circumcision Passion Resurrection Ascension sending of the holy Ghost and some besides these kept vpon set dayes euery yeare Aug Ne volumine temporum ingrata subrepat obliuio sayth hee lest in successe of time vnthankefull forgetfulnesse creepe in by little and little and cause such things to be forgotten which the Righteous haue done who should bee in euerlasting remembrance amongst men Hence is it that the Church keepeth those Holy dayes which Antiquity hath prescribed that all things bee done decently and in order 1. Cor. 14.40 1. Cor. 14.40 But what order would there be if euery man should serue God at his owne pleasure at his owne time after his owne manner Wee retaine the Festiuals of Saints because wee desire to prayse God in his Saints Psal 150.1 for his great gifts and vertues bestowed vpon them being as bequeathed Legacies and onely true Reliques for vs that wee may follow their good examples These dayes are for the seruice of God and partly as Socrates spake of olde Quò se à laborum contentione relaxent for relaxation from labour Socrat. l 5. c. 21 These wee keepe holy as the Lords day in the same manner though not in the same degree not for worship to them or imploring of them but to worship the God of Martyrs and Saints abstayning from lawfull labour in them not for superstition in conscience to the day but obedience to the Church And if it be held contemptuous to spend that day in lawfull labour wherein the Church shall indict a solemne fast notwithstanding that liberty of the sixe dayes which God hath giuen why shall that bee lawfull in a case of deiection which may not in prayse and exultation If the Church had power to appoint a festiuall for the dedication of the Temple and the like then it hath power to continue the memoriall of the blessed Apostles We see the Iewes did keepe the feast of the Dedication which was threefold as Alcuinus noteth The first by Salomon in the time of Autumne Aleuinus The second by Zorobabel in the time of the Spring The third by Iudas Macchabaeus in Winter the remembrance whereof contitinued vntill Christs time The Grecians call to dedicate or initiate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but to consecrate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To dedicate is one thing to consecrate is another Things are sayde to bee consecrated when of prophane things they are sayde to bee religious and holy and to bee dedicated when they are appointed to God The Hebrewes did not onely dedicate Temples which were newly built but also those which were repayred and clensed from vncleannesse as Iudas Macchabaeus did the Temple here when it was polluted by the Ethniques with the most filthy Idolatry of Antiochus Which Feasts they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Renoualia or Renouales dies dayes of renewing which are not once celebrated but the solemnities of them are done euery yeare once as now when Christ came to the feast of the Dedication whence I inferre this doctrine That the consecrating of Churches to the right seruice of the true God is a warrantable ceremonie Doct. allowable by our Sauiours presence The Reason of this thing