my part do i make any fcruple * toKeep aDay inRemembrance *LaTwnfu pofs of any eminent fervent of Chrifl, or Martyr, to praife God for For Conve:ïi- their dotIrineorexample,and honour their Memorial. But the ency is accor- hardeft part ofthe Queflion is, whether it be lawfull to keepdaies, ding to few- as holy, in celebrating the memorial of Cbrifts Nativity, C:rcum rai accidents, cifion, Fafiing, Tranffiguration, ev4fccntion, and limb like ? And the great reafons ofthe doubt are, a. Becaufe the occafons of thefe holy daies was exifient in the Apotlles dales : and therefore if God would have had fuch dales obferved, he could as eafily and fitly have done it byhis Apo{lles in the Scripture, as he did other the like things. 2. And this is a bufinefs that if it Were Niceffary,wouldbe Equally nccr f far, toall Ages andParts ofthe Catholick Church. And therefore it cannot be neceffary, but it mùft be the Matter ofan univerfal LAW. And God bath trade no fuch Law is Scripture : And foScripture fufficiency, as the Catholick Rule offaith and univerfal Divine obedi. nce, is utterly overthrown : which ifwe grant, and turn Papifls to day ., we (hall have as firong temptations to make us turn Infidels to mor- row, fopoor is their evidence for the fupplemental Traditional Law of God.3.And God himfelf bath already appointed aday for the fame purpofes as thefe are pretended for. For theLords Day is to commemorate the Refurrec`tion, as the great Trium- phant a&of the Redeemer, implying all the reff of his works : fo that though it be principally for the RefurreEtien, above any fingle workof Chrifi, yet alto for all the work of Redemption : And the whole is on that day to be commemorated with holy Joy and Praife. NowwhenGod himfelfbath let apart one day in every week to commemorate the whole work of Redemption, it feems an accufingofhis Infiitutions of infufficiency, to come after him tomend them,and fay we mull have an anniverfary day for this orthat part ofthe tror1L4:Thefourth Commandment being one ofthe Decalogue, feems to beof fohigh anature, that man is not to prefume to make the like. Elfe why may we not turn the ten commandments into twenty or a hundred ? But it feems a doing the fame or of like nature to what God hath done in the fourth commandment, ifany will make a neceffary flared holy day to the univerfal. Church. 5. And it feems alfo that thefe Holy dales (excepting Faller and WhirAmide and other Lords dales) arebut of later introdu&ion. Many paffages of Anti- Ggg 3 quity,
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