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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57240	The substance of a letter occasioned by a discourse of the time called Christmas, from an abuse on it	Richardson, Richard, 1623?-1689.	1680 (1680)	Wing R1396; ESTC R28478	9,501	13

What doest thou the spirit that rules in the Children of Disobedience But why may not we in this as well as several famous learned of later times who not only with the ancientest questioned it but shewed their Opinions against it Wolphius says The Taxing was not likely to be in Winter but Autumn Dan. 9. In the midst of the Week he made the Sacrifice to cease which ends in the moneth Nisan the first moneth when he suffered Wolphius proves the same by two Reasons He ended the Shadows at the time they began namely the Pasch Pentecost and that in the seventh moneth 2dly The Jews says he reckon he was born in such a year and in the beginning of it to be thirty years old at his Baptism Midleburgensis says The World was created in the Spring Equinox therefore it was meet the Restauration to be at that time resumed But saith Hospinian if those men that were near that Age knew it not why should we believe Midleburgensis Epiphanius or those that strive for December 25 And why should we this Author I have heard of some of late that have written of the Holiness of Places also but I have not seen any and that an eminent Man in the Church shew'd signs of Reverence to a Place where a Consecrated Fabrick had anciently stood As I remember I have read that Pauls in London was the Temple of Diana and Peters in Westminster of Apollo and so of several other Places And the Author of the History of the Church of Great Brittain G. G. writes That King Lucius here turned the Places of Arch Flamins of Heathenish Institution into so many Arch-Bishopricks as Pantheon at Rome into All-Saints Church and the Places of Twenty Eight Flamius or Jupiter 's Priests into so many Bishopricks and turned the Temples builded for the worship of Pagan Gods into Churches for the Service of Jesus Christ and that all the Possessions of the Heathen Flamins at Winchester were conferred on Donatus the Bishop and his Clergy there And as I remember Pope Gregory advised Austin to do the like among the Saxons So here is a very ancient Tradition for their Holy Places Seeing then they have made men trucle to be their Drudges Lackyes and Executioners for them and their Informers for their sacred Revenue as J. Selden calls Tythes in his History of them yet there blaming them that made the divine right of them their Plea to their Will-Worships of whose Original much might be spoke too large for a Letter and to their holy dayes and holy places as hath been here said What remains but that they proceed to their holy Garments as Cardinal Woolsey made the English Nobility bow to his Red Hat so they to their White Surplice the Ornament as Dr. Knewstubbs said of the Priests of Isis the ancient Aegyptian Goddess ancienter than the Children of Israel being in Aegypt as some say a very ancient Tradition and as old as that of their holy day unless by Saturn be understood Moloch or Bell the Son of Nimrod the Nephew of Cham an ancient Pedegree indeed of that Tradition and as ancient as any we read of unless that Cain's Offering as some are of opinion were Tythes or First Fruits as J. Selden writes in the beginning of his History of them and shews that some have gone about to prove it from the Art Cabalistical in the like number of the Letters of First Fruits and Tythes that is the highest we can go or rather the lowest in ferriting them in the Burrows Intrigues Labyrinths of their dark Traditions and there we leave them lest we lose ourselves What must they do that know nothing of History save the Scriptures and scarce them the good Protestant Plea Must they by an implicit Faith believe as the Church believes which they believe not to be the Church of God not keeping the Commands of God written in the heart to love God with all the heart and their Neighbour as themselves to do as they would be done to c. They that know nothing of History may justly suspect who was the Instituter of this Feast by observing who are the most zealous for it and whose service is done in it Christ's or Antichrist's The Interest bespeaks the Author So that some I remember have written of it That more solemn Service hath been done to Satan in the twelve days than in the whole year besides If the Kingdom of God consist in Meat or Drink or in respect of a Holy Day and mens Christianity must be judged by that we have Christians by the Belly And Bell must be a God for being a Belly-God But the Apostle's Admonition to the true Christian-Romans was Not in Gluttony and Drunkenness not in Chambering and Wantonness not in Strift and Envying but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it And whether ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do let all be done to the Praise and Glory of God I am thy Friend and all mens in the Truth Richard Richardson A few more Quotations for Confirmation of the fore-going Laertius in vita Plat. Plato's Birth-day the same with Apollo's as this Author saith was kept lately in Florence by the Medices Calend. vet Rom a G. Hewart Certain days for the Births of Mars Apollo Diana Minerva the Muses Hercules and other Gods observed T. Langley's Abridgment of Polyd. Virgil l. 6. c. 5. The manner of keeping holy Birth-dayes much used in Rome though in Persia first Ignatius 2 Epist ad Magn. mentions only the Commemoration of the Lord's Day forbids to sabbatize Jewishly but spiritually He was the Disciple of John If that was not his 't was later Augustine ad Januar. The Mercy of God would have the Church free He lamented that in his time the Conditions of the Jews seemed more tolerable subjected only to Legal Burdens not Human Traditions Lib. Concord cap. 14. At an Assembly of the Nobility and Clergy of the Protestants where three Electors were present agreed That all Ceremonies were left free And denyed all that thought them either to be imposed or submitted to when imposed in condescension to Persecutors THE END