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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86139	A ha! Christmas, This book of Christmas is a sound and good perswasion for gentlemen, and all wealthy men, to keepe a good Christmas. Here is proved the cause of free-will offerings, and to be liberall to the poore, here is sound and good arguments for it, taken and proved out of scripture, as hath been written a long time. / By, T.H.	T. H.	1647 (1647)	Wing H128; Thomason E421_5; ESTC R204668	4,534	8

A Ha! CHRISTMAS This Book of CHRISTMAS is a sound and good perswasion for Gentlemen and all wealthy men to keepe a good Christmas Here is proved the cause of Free-will Offerings and to be liberall to the poore here is sound and good Arguments for it taken and proved out of Scripture as any hath been written a long time By T. H. LONDON Printed for R. L. 1647. THis Festivall and good-time of Christmas or of our Saviours birth when God became man born of a pure Virgin when the brightnes of the glory became co●ered with mans nature when the word was made fl●sh and dwelt amongst us when Christ Jesus came into the world to restore mankinde to an everlasting glorious estate Again this very good time of Christs birth some men do not greatly desire to have this day sanctified with thanksgiving nor yet their poore kinred and poor neighbours feasted with Christian mirth and love but I hope th●se men will change their judgement when it shall please God to increase faith and knowledge and it may please God this book may give or shew a little light to their knowledg for by Gods help we wil bring both Scripture and reason and that godly and wise Christians of very ancient time have kept it and maintained it and therefore I hope that good and reasonable men will incline to that which is good right and first of al you will 〈…〉 both before Christs comming and since both for thanksgiving and for feasting on anoth●r witnesse the free will offering and joy of the Jews for their deliverance from the plot of Haman by Q. Ester and M●r●●●●● under God and we our selves doe offer fr●e will offerings of thanksgiving to God Almighty and we make merry and feast one another for the deliverance from the Gun powder Treason and other dangers of late And see in the 12th Chap. of Exodus the 14 ver how God comanded the people of Israel to keepe the very type of Christs shadowed out in the paschall lamb these are the words And this day shall be unto you for a memoriall and you shall keepe it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever Here is an Ordinance of God Almighty for his people to keepe the type and shadow of Christ and ver 16. to have a holy convocation on the first day and on the last day no work must be done but to dresse good chear and then shall not we offer free will offerings of thanksgiving praise when the substance of the true pascal lamb Christ Iesus was borne and came to deliver all the beleeving world from hell and damnation and by him we have blessings both spirituall temporall Psal 110. 3. which is a prophesie of Christ In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free will offerings and with a holy worshiping the dew of thy birth is the womb of the morning And Levit. 33. we read of a great many feasts and the first last day are to have a holy Assembly and the people were commanded to leave some of the fruit of the land and of the corn for the poor and Levit. 35. the people of Israel had a yeare of lubile wherein they were to rest and to help the poore the people of God and had their Feasts and rests and joy before Christ coming into the world both by command and by their free will offering then let us Christians give God Almighty free-will offerings of thanksgiving and praise on Christmas day For the birth of our Saviour and let us remember Christs poore members upon earth both poore kindred and neighbours and give occasion for them to rejoyce with money or feasting For in S. Luke 2. 13 there was a multitude of heavenly Angels praysing God and saying Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace towards men good will then let not us that have this peace of conscience and good will of God our heavenly Father be backward but let us give thanks and make good chear but some men will say how can you tell this is the day I answer that it hath been kept many hundred yeares at this time of the year and the learned do hold it was at this time of the year if that there be ten dayes difference between other countries beyond Seas ours that is nothing to us For a thousand years with God almighty is but as on day hee holds time and times in his power therefore let us keep our owne countries good times and shew as much charity on to another as the people of Israel did before Christ for wee have the promises fulfilled which they waited and looked for by faith Did not thy fathers eat drink and prosper when they executed judgment and righteousnes and helped the poore saith the Prophet Jeremiah to that ungodly and cruell K. Jehoiakim so as at a such time as Christmas those whom God Almighty hath given a good share of the wealth of this world may wear the best eat drink the best with moderation so that they remember Christ's poor members with mercy and charity and this year requireth more charity then ordinary because of the dearness of provision of corn and victuals What if gentlemen of great wealth should spend a hundred pound in charitable works this year more then they have coming in they may help out a dear yeare and God Almighty hath promised to be good unto such men and to blesse them with many blessings and let every man according to his estate do some good for his Saviours sake And then we may sing that Christ our King was born as this day of a pure Virgin of a pure Virgin and now seeing wee are a speaking of Christmass let us not be too sad but a little merry and cheerfull Consider what great joy there was through all the Kingdoms of the great King Ahashueroh among all the people of Israel which were scattered in all the lands of that great heathen King Ester 9. 20. then Queen Ester the daughter of Abihail and Mordecay the Jew wrote with all authority to confirme the second letters of Purim and all this people of the Jews obeyed Queen Ester and Mordecai and keep these days of deliverance from the wicked plot of Haman they feasted with joy and sent portions on to another and gifts to the poor this deliverance from this wicked designe of Haman was a great earthly deliverance but Haman could not have hurt their soules but they might have been saved but our enemy Satan had and would have hurt our souls and bodies and our souls had been accursed and perished had not Christ came into the world to redeem them their deliverance was but to that Nation but our deliverance by Christ Iesus coming into the world and taking mans nature and condition upon him without sin the eternall Son of God by coming into the world and suffering and making satisfaction for mankind hath delivered all