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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89447	A box of spikenard newly broken not so much for the preparation of the burial; as for the clearer illustration, and exornation of the birth and nativity of our blessed Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus. Contained in a short and sweet discourse which was at first hinted, and occasioned through a question propounded by R.B.P. de K. Which is now answered and resloved by T.M. P. de P.	Malpas, Thomas.	1659 (1659)	Wing M340; Thomason E2140_2; ESTC R208367	46,250	128

indeed a sweet and brief Compendium and Abridgment of the whole Gospel But also I referr you to the learned and authentick Creed of judicious Athanasius which is an accurate and compleat Exposition of the former who saith Quicunque vult salvari c. Whosoever will be saved it is necessary to his everlasting Salvation That he believe rightly in the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ For the right Faith is That we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God is God and Man And when did He become Man or when was God manifested in the Flesh but on this day And what fitter day can there be to confess this Faith than on the very same day he was born For this is to perform Opus diei in die suo And this hath been both done and authorized or allowed of also to be done by as ancient learned godly and zealous Doctors and Divines as ever the whole Christian World affoarded since the first appearance of Christ in the shape of Man even by those Chariots Horsemen of Israel who were the chief Orient and resplendent Lights of the times the Glory of the Churches and the only Diamonds Pearls and Ornaments of the places where they lived men famous and renowned in their Generations namely St. Cyprian St. Ambrose St. Augustine St. Bernard St. Chrysostome Basil Cyril Beda Theophylact Euthymius Ludolphus Erasmus cum multis aliis c. whose Sermons Homilies and Orations for this day's Solemnity are both extant and eminent and might be made also evident and apparant if need were sufficient to convince and stop the mouth of any peevish and perverse Antagonist or Gainsayer whatsoever To these we may add Dia Poemata the Divine Poems of those sweet mellifluous Christian Poets Palladius and Prudentius made in an honourable memoriall of our blessed Lord and Saviour's Nativity And what if we mentioned here the rate Prophecies and Praedictious of the Sybillaes of old who foretold us of these things and the very Heroicall Verses and stately Genethliacon's of Heathenish Poets who lived both before some of them and othersome also about the time of the Birth of Christ who received their Raptures and Enthusiasms not onely from Sybilla or Apollo but as some think and are bold to conjecture it from the Spirit of God This was it that made Virgil to raise up his Muse to a higher strain Eclog. 4. Sicelides Musae paulo majora canamus Jam redit Virgo redeunt Saturnia Regna Jam nova Progenies coelo dimittitur alto Aspice venturo laetentur ut omnia sêclo For now return the daies of Peace now the new Progeny is sent from Heaven behold all things shall then rejoyce and be glad Tully in Lib. Divinationis gives this Observation out of Sybil that she prophesyeth of a King to come Quem Regem colere debemus si velimus esse salvi which King we must worship if we would be saved And this King should abolish all false Religions whatsoever Now concerning all these if you should cavill and object against them or any of them and say What is this to the Scripture Then will I answer you as our Saviour answered the Pharisees finding fault with his Disciples for their crying Hosanna before him when he ridd into Jerusalem I tell you that if these should have held their peace the very stones would cry out and applaud Him Well then Have all these doted and delired in their writing concerning this thing namely the solemn Observation of this high and festival Time in honour of the World 's most gracious and glorious and blessed Redeemer and are you the onely wise man as it were that is now left upon the Earth to correct them and direct us have all these erred Even so will we And more sweet shall our Errour be unto us with these I speak especially of those ancient and reverend Fathers of the Primitive Church whom I named before who I dare say were all and every one of them as fearful to offend God in denying the Perfection of the Scriptures as you for the very life can possibly be more sweet I say shall our errour be unto us with these of whom we make no question but that they are all bound up in the bundle of life with the Congregation of the first-born than a new and recent device and purpose of burying the Anniversary remembrance of this day in the silent Night and darksome Grave of everlasting Oblivion obtruded unto us by you and such as you who take upon them to be the grand Reformers of these times and great Undertakers and principal Innovators of all ancient lawful and laudable Customes whatsoever Let others affect Novelty how they please for my own part I ever reverenced and admired Antiquity especially when I have found it in the way of Verity and If I were worthy to admonish our young upstart malapert Masters of these times I would wish them to remember what grave St. Austin saith in his 118 Epist cap. 5. Ipsa mutatio consuetudinis etiam quâ adjuvat utilitate perturbat novitate Auswer to the third Argument The words of the third Argument are these I am fearfull lest I should make a day to my self c. Sir I wonder whether your Lecture-day is not a day made to your self I doubt not but you have done as much as in you lyeth concerning your Lecture-day and both extoll and preferr it before the day of Christ's Birth For this day hapning not long since to be upon your Lecture-day you did not spare to speak it nor blush to give it out in the Pulpit as I was credibly informed by some that heard you That if that day had not hapned on your Lecture-day you had not then preached so that your day must by all means be observed and kept strictly and praecisely but our Saviour's day must be scornfully slighted and neglected as a day not scarce fit to be named much less to be celebrated and regarded with honour But I say Let his Birth-day be celebrated yea all praise and Glory be unto him who was born and died for our Salvation Amen Answer to the fourth Argument The fourth Argument is this I am fearfull lest by observing this day I should set up a day against God To this I answer If you observe and celebrate this day you set not a day up against God but for God for that which you do for Christ you do for God for we know that God and Christ are not divided but He and the Father are One they are his own words John 10.30 Ego Pater Vnum sumus hoc est substantialiter Idem in Personis Distincti In which few words both the Heresy of the Arrians and Sabellians is sufficiently confuted For as learned Athanasius observeth who for this was happily called the World's Eye because he did see so much and pierce so far into this unsearchable and ineffable Mystery we must neither