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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	condemnation_n	light_n	light_v	1,791	5	9.6672	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58830	The worlds observation for keeping their masse days and festivall dayes (so called) fathomed and found groundless, or without a bottome, so needs must fall that hath not whereon to stand, for what is there to uphold it but papists traditions, heathenish manners or customes of nations which are vaine? and they that observe lying vanities, forsake their own mercy.	W. S.	1659 (1659)	Wing S209; ESTC R213987	2,143	1

The Worlds Observation for keeping their Masse-days and Festivall dayes so called fathomed and found groundless or without a bottome so needs must fall that hath not whereon to stand for what is there to uphold it but Papists traditions Heathenish manners or customes of Nations which are vaine and they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy AND where do you read in all the Scriptures the writings of the holy Men of God of a day called Christmas's day indeed in the writings of the Pope and Papists you may reade there of severall Masse-days Candlemass-day Lammasse-day Michaelmasse-day but where did Christ his Ministers Messengers and Followers appoint Masse-dayes Do you speake truth then when you call it his Masse-day Christmasse day when he never appointed it nor commanded it nor none of his Servants Disciples or Followers Is not your worke then your own who required it at your hands if you cannot make it appeare that Christ had a Masse-day then it is your own Masse-day or the Papists Masse-day whom you are found imitators off and so are you not upholding Popery keeping the Popes yoke upon your neckes whilest you are observing Popish dayes feasts names times and seasons and see not all times in the Fathers hand The Apostle declared against observing dayes and Moneths and times which you are found observing off so out of their Doctrine therefore doth it not appeare your worke is your owne that you are of a contrary mind who said I am afraid of you least I have bestowed upon you labour in vaine and writ unto them and asked who had bewitched them Observe a day and kill the just or they who live in pleasures on Earth and are wanton doe they not kill the just Or is that the end of your observing dayes and times to put an end to the Creatures of God to spend them upon your lusts to swallow up the Creatures and make havock of them which the will haveing its liberty runnes with greedinesse into Did ever the Saints follow such practise the holy men of God eate and drinke but did not rise up to play but they indeed whom God destroyed did so Therefore reade your selves and consider every one betimes the worke of your day and the end of your worke Are you not to doe all whatsoever you doe to the praise and glory of God is drunkennesse night watching revelling riotting banketting gameing danceing sporting workes done to his glory or that doe praise him or doth it not dishonour him people to spend their dayes in vanity Or doth carding diceing foolish jesting riddles idle talkeing corrupt communication stories and fables glorifie God what is done in your eatings drinkings superfluities and wantonnesse reade well and consider these things for God will not be mocked Did God make the Creatures to serve you and you to serve your lusts or is it equall so to doe and such as every one soweth such shall he reape mind therefore the weight and worth of your immortall soules and spend no longer your time in vanity yee light airy wanton ones that love your pleasures sports and pastimes more then God so while you have time prize it For doth not the light condemne you for these things the witnesse of God in your conscience Or how can you expect God should love you when you love your vanities sports and pleasures more then him Or is that a honouring of God or of Christ or glorifying him whose the Earth is and the fulnesse thereof to kill and destroy his Creatures and spend them upon your lusts and loose and spend away your precious time with your fiddles musick songs riddles foolish jesting idle talking and corrupt communication doth not the Scriptures declare that with such things the spirit of God is greived Ought you not rather to delight your selves in the Lord and take your pleasure in him and not to spend away your dayes in vanity and follow after leasing that the Lord might dwell among you and delight to doe you good Or who required that honour from you which you say you are doing for keeping of the Saints dayes St. Steven St. John and your Lady day what Lord hath required such worship from you except the Pope from whom you have it by tradition or what other example can you shew for your practise herein Did they whom you call St. Steven or St. John in their day teach any such Doctrine or give any such example And was not Mary blest and highly favoured who was in the feare of God and said the mercy of God is from generation to generation towards them that feare him But this doth condemne you who are out of his feare so out of his mercy and feeding your selves without feare And what is to you the holy day that are strangers to the holy life can you say you live their life that pretend to keep their day otherwise doth it not shew you are ignorant and know not what you are doing your worke is groundlesse without a bottome that know not the Saints life nor their day who are from the light which leades to the holy day to the holy life and so in the darknesse stumbling where you cannot tell what you are doing in your darke workes but the children of light see you and can have no fellowship with your unfruitfull works of darknesse which are to be reproved and for which you are reproved in secret when no eye seeth you for your hard speeches ungodly deeds and evill actions the light reproves you wherewith Christ hath enlightened you who lighteth every man that cometh into the world who love the darknesse rather then light because your deeds are evill which light wil be your condemnation hating it and walking contrary unto it which is the salvation of all that believe and obey So loving the light wherewith you are enlightened and receiving it there will be a teacher present with you at all times and in all places to teach you sobriety and the feare of God alwaies to depart from evill W. S. London Printed for M. W. 1659.