526 Ofthe REs UR R 1t c T I dN. Sermon 1 , andnamelyoiltheGalatians, andonthatplace (yeeobfo~ (f.11th he) we Chriffians doeincurre thatfault, all. For we keepe(by name) Ea/ •;: 1 mt the !ewes Ealtcr,ofunleavened brs.Jd(which the Apojlle e:mpts to )butt he Ch;[C,- 111 Eaflercfthe Refurre[fionof C H R I s T. • Some, by way of Epijllesand anl\i.::a~ as Saint Ambrofe, LXXXIII: Epijl l~ ,full to it. Saint Auguf!. CXVIll. CX!X. f~ Efiflles concernmg_que~tons about tt. l Some, by thetr ""'~'"a_' As Epipb•nim (the ! re_afure ofanuqlllty) Ill hts L. LXX. and LXXV. herefie,adoppojitum. Pofitivel m hts Compendunnof th~ true Churches orders, at the end of his fannarium, whereJ one ts """r"v""~-"">'""" ·., 7f>ff'<p~ 7-:;;.,,;,,X', Thegreat folemmty 11pon Enfter-day. ' As S vfugt•Jline exprelly contraVfdimantum, the I6. Chap. and the 32. bookeagainfr F "f']ltu (that found fault, the Church kept it,yet kept it not,as the !ewes:)confeffeth the one, (the Cht1rches keepmg:) travcr[cs the other, that !he ought, neither attlut time,nor in that manner to keepe it, as tHey did: and that atlarge. 4 Some, byfho~ Treatifes, as Ambrofe de myfferio Pafc!J«. And fomc by full bookes, as Eufebiuo, who wrote a booke ofrhe whole order ofthe Churches Service then, dedicated it to c,,_ jlantine, was by the Emperour highly commenued for it. llY'"'"''' of 4 Laflly, as by wrinng, fo by mmer of faCl:. As chryfojlome, who when he r,a. was depofed, and fo injoyned not to come many Church: yet Eajier-d") comming ~:C~;'[t'c~7: (o loth he was nor to keepeit, as he got hitn in ThermtU Conflan:ini (a fpaciousgrea; or At),r.a.fiu. bmldmg, for the pubhke Bath of the ~ttte) and there held Ius Eajler, with avery ffP•Iog.adcon- great company, that would nor forfake htm. As Athanajius, who beiog accufed to '""""'· Conjlantim (the Emperour, for keeping the Feall ofEajfer in the great Church at A– lexandria(thenbut newly finilhed, and as yet not dedicate) he !ayes the blamefrom himfdfe upon the people,tbat would have it kept there, doe what he could,the other Churcheswere fo narrow,and the concourfe to the Fea!l: [ogre"ar,as hefaitb,it would have done the Emperours heart good, ro have [eene ir. And in his Epifllead A(ricanos; with open mouth, he cryerh ourupontbe Arri-' AilS, that came inmi!it~ry manner to inll:all their new Bilhop, and the many outrages by rhem done. Above all, that not onely they did rhofe ourrages,bur did them (of all dayes)uponEafler-day, Et ne ip[11m qttidem Dominicmn dirmfanc1ijfimifejli u/14 in rcverentia habHere, And had nor in any reverence, not the very S11nday ofthat mo~ holyFeafl. Cu.Jiomtforrhe Nor the Sunday : fer we are to know, thecriflome that is continued >vith usfiill,' th"" Hobd•J" they then had, to keepe tJVo dayes befidethe S11nday, three in all: Forthe Uine ~.:':~~i,;"'P·8• Church, plaine, by Saillt Attgt~jlinede Civitatc Dei, 22. In 3"mFefti diem. For the P•fi'"· Greeke, byNyjfm, who exprelly termeth ir, 7p~>if'<p®- "'i7"P'"-· Thus, all the[e wayes, byJinging,by faying, by rvriting,by"doing,all bearewimelfe to it: and I may fafdy [ay,there is not one ofthem,but one of thefe wayes or other, he hath his hand in it, and among them they make up a full proofe, ofthis habem11.1 confreetudinem. From the Fat!Jers; I paffc to theCouncels, and pleadit by all the foure. Tl!e 1Xi; i.~~0r~~ ccne fir!l:. eo• "''· I Two caufestherc.- were (faith Athanafim de syn. Arim.& Set.) oftheaffem· "lh< N"'"'· bling that Councell. Nam er clatldicabant circa Fejlum (and he makes rhatthe firft cau[e) Thq hnltedabout the Feafl, lupt it not uniformely : and that was fet flra1ght, a• Tb"d 1.u.9. gainll: Cre(centilu. And,the Ileitieofthe SoN N• of Go owtU quefltoned, a_ndthat 6 '"' 1• 1• '"'·9· was put into the 'l{iceneCreed, againlt Arrius. Youhave the Councels Eptll!efor the fetling it: you have the EmperoursSaera forrhe rarifyingit, directed ndomnes EcclifttU (in the third bookeofhis life, by Enfebim.) . . Tho. of 2 Fotthe two Gcnerall at Con/lantinople. As Conjl~tntine in the lirfl Jo1heo~f Conlla.t. fius atrhis, was not behinde. His Law remaines, whereby he provided, that for tecne dayes, from the Sunday beforethe day, rill tl~e Sunday after, noproceffe ~ou~goe fortb none fhould be arrell:ed; agenerallccifmon of all both proceffes an/r ceedin"S 'in honour of the High Fea!l:. That you have Eajler-day, and tbecunolllC ofholdu;critfolcmnely, in the body of the Law too, in TheodojiHf Cpdr. A . b . 3·
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