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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

man did what was good in his own sight That Anarchy and those Confusions under which this Nation of ours hath groan'd for several years have given too much opportunity to the evil Willers of our Sion to unsettle divide distract and corrupt several of its Members And therefore First 1. We are to beware of the Leaven of Atheism It 's scarce credible in such a Land as ours amongst us who have had the Noon-day-light of the Gospel as well as all other advantages for the improvement of our natural Light and acquired Knowledge that any should dare to question so clear and undeniable a Truth the Heavens and the Earth may be astonished at this The Heavens declare the Glory of God and the Firmament shews his handy work Psal 19.1 The invisible things of God from the Creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal Power and Godhead so that they are without excuse Rom. 1.20 We have in our selves a demonstration quaelibet herba Denm the most minute Creature speaks a Deity much more the frame of man who is fearfully and wonderfully made Psal 139.14 And yet besides practical Atheists which all sinners are Psal 36.2 there are in our days to be met with those that set their mouths against Heaven and their tongue walketh thorough the Earth How say they doth God know and is there knowledge in the most High Psal 73.9 11. What Luther abhorr'd himself for thinking we have Monsters belch out Horribilia de Deo terribilia de Fide Davids Fool or wicked man was modest in respect of the Atheists of our days he whispered to himself said in his heart There is no God but these avow it in their Principles All such are indeed without hope and without the true God to serve him and depend upon him but are slaves to a false one the Devil call'd the God of this World the Prince of the power of the Air the Spirit that works in the children of disobedience and hath blinded their minds lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine in unto them Such shall find God hereafter in his Justice when there will be no place for Repentance It will be then in vain to call to the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from the wrath of the Lamb it will be bootless to plead they are the workmanship of his hands They are a people of no understanding those that live and die in such an open defiance of God and their duty he that made them will not have mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour Isa 27.11 When men of such Principles fall in our way we must do more then shun them our selves we must be zealous in so great a matter withstand them to the face Gal. 2.11 write a cross on their doors and set a mark on their persons that others may avoid them If the Leprosie was in an house none were to sleep in it and if in garments they were to be burnt with fire 2. The Leaven of Rebellion and 't is no wonder when men have cast off the fear of God they should prove false to their Prince Tears and Prayers are the right Weapons of the Church That thundring Legion that storm'd Heaven with their Prayers and rose not from their knees until God gave them rain laid down their Arms and offered their lives to death rather then they would oppose their Prince or deny the True God and worship Idols And it is the glory of our Religion and the Church of England in an especial manner that it gives not the least countenance to Disloyalty and admits of no colour or pretence of resistance whatsoever The Scriptures we owne are as plain and full as words can express every Soul is to be subject to the higher Powers for Gods sake and for Conscience sake and those that resist resist the Ordinance of God and shall receive damnation to themselves Rom. 13.1 2. Tit. 3.1 and 2 Pet. 2.13 Davids heart smote him for the cutting off the lap of Sauls garment and we are advised in prudence as well as confcience not to curse the King no not in our thoughts for God hath the Sacred persons of Kings so much under his protection that he often goeth out of the ordinary way of his Providence and works a Miracle rather then Treachery against them should presper Eccles 10 20. A bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter These filthy Dreamers that despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities they are spots in all Feasts as well as those of Charity Jude 12 13. Clouds they are without water carried about with wind trees whose fruit is withered twice dead plucked up by the roots raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame wandring stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darknoss for ever 3. The Leaven of Herod or the Leaven of Faction Fox like Subtleties or contagious Principles Herod was a subtle Fox as our Saviour calls him Go tell that Fox a Slave to Ambition and Lust and a Creature to Coesar on whose pleasure he held his Dignity He heard John Baptist and pretended to hearken to him Mark 6.20 but sacrificed him to the jealousie of Herodias He desired to see Christ possibly to satisfie his curiosity or to have been magnified by some Miracle he hoped to have done him or rather to dispatch him as we find it suggested to our Saviour Herod seeks to kill thee a Coppy Herod his Predecessor had set him He tamper'd with the Magi Matt. 2. that he might find out him that was born King of the Jews on a pretence to worship him but how he would have made him a Deity appears by his butchering afterwards for his sake about fourteen thousand all the children of that age about two years old and under in Bethlehem The Herodians were Parasites in their Courts that varied their Religion with them made one of the Herods a God and kept his Birth-day heard our Saviour and proposed ensnaring questions to entrap him And such are our Seekers in Discipline Abetters of Faction those who fit up Religion after mens Humours to serve a turn mould up Gods Worship with Herods and Jeroboams ends and watch for our halting Herod would be exalted arrays himself in costly Apparel gets into the Throne courts the Applause of the Rabble and is pleased to be the Idol of the People though he dies their Martyr and is eaten up of worms Acts 12.20 Like Saul to Samuel come what will yet honour me before the Elders of Israel Jeroboam must have his Conventicles and sets up his Calfes in Dan and Bethel makes a rent in the Church to patch up the slaws of his Title to the ten Tribes Korah Dathan and Abiram were too proud to obey Moses and Aaron and would set up Independency

called the Lords Release Deut. 15.1 And this 1. To keep in a dependance on Providence 2. To mind of Adams happy estate in Innocency 3. To shadow the everlasting Sabbath we are to expect in the Heavens and this possibly the ground of Rabbi Elias his opinion That the World would last six thousand years according to that of St. Peter 2 Pet. 3.8 two thousand inanitatis two thousand under the Law and two thousand under the Messias which however curious yet spoken by a Jew one of their Rabbies may serve to convince the Jews that Christ is come and the Law ceased 4. Their last Feast of Divine Institution was the Jubilee celebrated every fiftieth year Levit. 25.8 after seven Sabbaths of years call'd so not from Jubal the first Inventer of Musical Instruments Gen. 4.21 but from Jobalim the Rams Horns sounded at that time Levit. 25.19 1. Then viz. on the tenth day they released Servants 2. Lands restored to the first Owners who sold them 3. A true distinction of Tribes preserved by Lands restored and Servants returned to their Families 4. As Grecians computed by Olympiads Romans by Lustra Christians by Indictions Jews by Jubilees 5. Mystically it notes our Jubilee by Christ by whom a door of hope into Heaven re-entry thither and the sound of the Gospel They had also their Purim or Feast of Lots beginning the 14th of Adar our February and ending the 15th Esther 9.21 instituted by Mordecai in remembrance of the delivery of the Jews from Haman And the Feast of Dedication practised Nehem. 12.27 at the setting up of the Wall of Jerusalem and made a yearly Festival to be kept eight days from the 25th of the month Casleu answering in part to our December by Judas Macchabeus 1 Maccab. 4.59 on the Consecration of the Altar It is mentioned by St. John Chap. 10.22 that it was Winter and Christ then at Jerusalem THE PATRIARCH Abraham made a great Feast at the weaning of Isaac Gen. 21.8 and Laban at the marrying of Leah Gen. 29.22 The Jews made Feasts of the Remainders of their Sacrifices and the Christians had their Love-Feasts to succeed the Lords Supper their Banquets at the publick Meetings of the Church to testifie and nourish brotherly Love continued near two hundred years after Christ and then laid aside because of their great Abuse 1 Cor. 11. There is the Royal Preacher tells us Eccles 3.4 a time to weep and a time to laugh a time to mourn and a time to dance We are allow'd to Feast as well as commanded to Fast and God hath given us his Creatures to this end Bread to strengthen and Wine to chear mans heart and Oyl to make his face to shine Psal 104.15 Solomon Eccles 3.4 13. tells us it is the gift of God nay Chap. 2.24 that there is nothing better for a man then to eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labour And yet there is a sort of morose Brethren that are ready to censure our Christian liberty Gal. 2.4 and put a bad construction on our laudable and well warranted Meeting Quorsum haec perditio Wherefore they say is all this waste There are men of this Generation like those our Saviour speaks of Luke 7.32 that if we pipe will not dance if we mourn will not weep will make us offenders be our deportment what it will never so moderate never so well governed John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine and yet they said he had a Devil The Son of man came eating and drinking and he is censured as a gluttonous man a friend of Publicans and sinners but Wisdom is justified of her Children We leave these Cynicks to surfeit on their folly and whiles they dig in the Earth and hide their Talent without either comfort in it or improvement of it Matt. 25. Our cruise of oil shall not fail nor our barrel of meal waste though we thus spend of the one and use the other 2 Kings 17.4 Therefore let us keep the Feast The Feast here meant by St. Paul is the Passeover the Jews second Sacrament of which we meet with three Acceptions 1. It is taken for that yearly Solemnity which was celebrated on the 14th day of Nisan or Abib our March and call'd simply the Passeover or the Passeover of the Lamb because on that day towards the evening or inter duas vesperas as Numb 28.4 viz. declinationis occasus solis not vesperam solis luminis the Israelites were commanded according to their Families to kill and roast a Lamb and eat it in their private houses 2. It signifies that yearly Festivity which was celebrated on the 15th of Nisan and may be called the Passeover of the Sheep or Bullock Deut. 16.2 or the Feast of the Passeover as Numb 28.16 17. towards which Feast it was that Josiah gave such a multitude of Lambs Kids Sheep and Bullocks 3. It is taken for the whole Solemnity beginning the 14th and ending the 21st of the same month Luke 22.1 Now the Feast of unleavened bread drew nigh which is called Passeover so that in this Acception it contain'd the Feast of unleavened Bread also But to speak properly the Feast of unleavened Bread was a distinct Feast from the Passeover For 1. The Passeover was to be kept on the 14th day of the first month at even on which they were as is confess'd enjoined to eat unleavened Bread with the Lamb but the Feast of unleavened Bread began not till the morrow following viz. the 15th and lasted seven days of which only the first and last were Holy Convocations in which they might do no servile work Levit. 23.5 6 7 8. 2. The Passeover in the Age following its Institution might not be kill'd and eaten in any other place save only where the Lord did chuse to place his Name which afterwards was at Jerusalem But the Feast of unleavened Bread the Hebrews thought themselves bound to keep in every place where-ever they dwelt if they could not be at Jerusalem and the eating of it they say depended not on the eating of the Passover but was a Commandment by it self and both agree with the occasion of our present meeting if we either consider 1. The Original Or 2. The Manner of its Observation 1. The Original Gods miraculous Preservation and Deliverance of the Israelites from Egyptian Bondage and Darkness and the destroying Angel his passing over their Houses and sparing them and their Children when he smote the first-born of the Egyptians Exod. 12.30 and drowned Pharaoh and his Host in the Red Sea whiles the Israelites passed thorough it as by dry Land as Heb. 11.29 where both are mentioned For the word Passeover comes not as some of the Latine Fathers viz. Tertullian and Ambrose from the Greek word πάσχω to suffer because Christs Sufferings and Passions are now celebrated at this time but from the Hebrew word פסח transitus or transitio a passing over which Etymology we have

be so much as named amongst us All bitterness wrath anger clamour and evil speaking must be put away from us with all malice and we are to be kind to one another tender-hearted forgiving one another as God for Christs sake hath forgiven us Eph. 4.32 33. We are all English-men we are Country-men there must be no difference no strangeness amongst us for we are Brethren to go higher we are Christians We have one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of all and should keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace Eph. 3.4 5. This is to be a new Lump all of a piece In Heaven where the blessed Angels and Spirits of men made perfect the Church Triumphant abide there is a sweet and constant agreement and in the purest times of the Church Militant the Believers were all of one heart and one mind Acts 4.32 nay 't is the mark whereby our Saviour would have his Disciples known from the rest of the world and from Hypocrites their loving one another John 13.35 And 't was practised in the primitive Times to the glory of the Gospel and astonishment of their Adversaries See say they how the Christians love one another From henceforth let me beg that this may be the only contention amongst us who shall be the sincerest Christians the most Loyal Subjects the truest Friends and the most useful Country-men Let as many of us as be perfect be thus minded and if any be otherwise minded God shall reveal this unto them And thus we are duly qualify'd to make a Feast Epulemur So some expound what others render celebremus Keep a Feast and both proper the word reacheth both we cannot keep a Feast unless we make it A Feast implies a Banquet provision more then ordinary upon some solemn occasion to remember some great Mercy of God and withal to chear the heart When God bestows signal Mercies he expects suitable acknowledgments Psal 50.15 And great cause we have to Feast to bless God and rejoyce before him As Christians so from the Argument in the Context Christ our Passeover is sacrificed for us The Birth of Christ was Tidings of great joy to all people Luke 2.10 and was celebrated with the Halelujahs of the heavenly Host His Incarnation was a Mystery hid from Ages which the Angels desired to pry into but if he had not been bruised for our iniquities we had not been healed from them Isa 53.5 It is our security and rejoycing that he hath suffered and is risen again for our Justification Rom. 8.34 As English-men besides those many National deliverances before mentioned we are to praise Him for giving us our Lot in the Garden of Eden the Paradise of the World the Nursery of Arts and Learning a Goshen for light and knowledge not only of the Volumes of Nature but of the Books of God enrich'd with all those Blessings that may make our lives comfortable here and us happy hereafter For our particular Country we may say our Lines are fallen in a pleasant place whether we view our Chiltern or our Vale consider Pastime Health or Profit we have a goodly Heritage well watered as the Garden of the Lord Our dwelling is the Fatness of the Earth and the Dew of Heaven from above Gen. 27.39 We have a Benjamins share in those many Blessings which God hath heaped upon this Nation It is not enough to bring forth the best Robes the costly Ring to kill the fatted Calf and to eat and drink and to be merry and to give our Fragments to the Poor Luke 15.21 though all this be proper at such a time as this This is not all the principal part is behind Psal 50.13 we must offer unto God thanksgiving and pay our vows to the most High This shall please God better then an whole Hecatomb of Oxen that have horns and hoofs Psal 69.31 We are not to keep 1. An Epicures Feast To eat and drink for to morrow we shall dye eat only for eatings sake Indulgere Genio to indulge our selves and gratifie our palates this is to make a God of our Belly and to glory in our shame such are Enemies to the Cross of Christ Phil. 3.19 Job sent for his Sons and sanctified them continually after Feasting Job 1. And whether we eat or drink or whatever we do we are to do all to the glory of God 1 Cor. 10.31 and to this end we must not 2. Keep a Feast like Nabal who held a Feast in his house like the Feast of a King yet had nothing but a churlish Answer to spare not so much as a Good word to give Whiles we drink Wine in Bowls we must not forget the Afflictions of Joseph Nehemiahs Rule was They should eat the fat and drink the sweet and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared Nehem. 8.10 And the Royal Psalmist at his Feast upon the bringing back the Ark dealt to every one of Israel both man and woman to every one a Loaf of bread a good piece of Flesh and a Flagon of wine 1 Chron. 16.3 I know these good Examples were not well followed sometimes large Portions were sent to the disfurnishing of the Table and incommoding the proper Guests and some stay'd away to receive greater shares then they should have had if present which lessen'd the Appearance and these were the occasions of the Laodicean Canon to regulate this Abuse and alter the Custom I need not either question or direct your Charity The Wisdom of this Age hath found out a better Method to gather and dispose with Judgment of what is given to good and charitable Uses yet seeing you have thought fit to call me hither I shall take the freedom in a word or two more to be your Remembrancer No man is born for himself but for God and for his Country and each of us should so live that we may bring Glory to one and be of Use in the other It 's below a reasonable Creature to cumber the Earth and bring forth no fruit Telluris inutile pondus Davids question is to be every good mans care to be rendring to God for all his benefits Psal 116.11 We vindicate our Religion and convince the World that we are more then Solifidians when we shew our Faith by our Works To be barren in them argues Leanness in our Souls Psal 106.15 Our Country is fertile our Soil fat and rich we credit that as well as shew our own tenderness when our Compassions are enlarged Zacheus gave half his Goods to the Poor and the Primitive Christians sold their Houses and Possessions and put all into the Apostles hands for the use of the Church Every Sabbatical year and at the Jubilee the Jews released Servants cancelled Mortgages and discharged all Debtors God requires no such great things from us yet expects from every one some Return Every one hath his Talent Those that are not able to build and endow Churches or erect Hospitals may repair the living Temples of the Holy Ghost give Dorcas her Coats put somewhat into the Conclave Silentum the poor mans Chest The Widows Mites are kindly taken those that cannot give themselves may perswade and direct to others that are more able If there be first a willing mind something may be done and it is accepted according to what a man hath and not according to what a man hath not 2 Cor. 8.12 He that giveth to the Poor lendeth to the Lord and what we may spare cannot be put into a surer hand or better way of improvement for he will surely pay it again to some thirty to some sixty to some an hundred-fold what we do to Christ's Brethren He takes as done unto himself and will not suffer a cup of cold water given to a Disciple in the name of a Disciple to loose its reward No man ever lost by thus serving God He that telleth our wandrings and puts our Tears into his Bottle keeps a Book of Remembrance for our Prayers and Almsdeeds To do good and to communicate therefore I beseech you forget not for with such Sacrifices God is well pleased Now to God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost be Glory Honour and Power hence and for ever Rev. 7.12 FINIS