316 Chap.4. RCemtnerrtarie vpon boar, and the f uenthday :s the Sabathof the Lord thy Cod , are moral!, and containe a perpetual! truth. Therefore the words ofPaul mu.q be conceiued with an exceptionof the Sabbath day,which is the feucnth day in euery weeke;which dayChrill bath limited by his Apoflles,to the Lords dry. The vfe. This text of Paul difcouers vnto vs a great part of \the fuperllitionof the Popifn Church , in the obferuation of holy daies.Firfl,befide the Lords day,they appoint many other fabbaths: whereas it is thepriuiledge of God to appoint an ordinarie day ofrefl,ar d to fantlìfie it tohis owne honour.Se- condly, they bind ;Dens confciences to the obferuation oftheir holy dales , which Paul here forbids,and Col. z.t 6. Thirdly, they place the worship of God in the obferuation oftheir ho- lydales : but God is worfhipped in vaine by mens precepts. Matth. r S .Fourthly,theyplace a great holines in their feflivall' dales, more then inother daies. Fiftly , they dedicatemany of their holydaies to the honour of Saints and Angels : whereas the dedicationof ordinarie and let daies, is a par t of diuineor religious worfhip.Laffly,their holy daies fornuniberaremore then the feflivall dales oF the Iewes: and thus they bringpeo- ple into their old bondage, nay to a greater bondage then euer the 'ewes indured,in refpe&ofdaies and times. It may be laid that the Churchof the Proteflants obfèrueholy daies. 9,7f Sorne Churches doe not : becauíè the Church in theApoffles daies, had noholy day, betide the Lords day: and the4. corn mandement inioynes the labour of fixe daies . Indeed; the Churches.of England obferueth holydaies,but the Popifh fu- perlhtion is cut off. For we are not bound in confcience to the obferuation oftheledaies : neither doe we place holines or the worfhip of God in them : but we keepe them onely for orders fake, that nten may corne to the Church to heare Gods woid. And thoughwe retaine the names ofSaints daies, vet we give no worfhip to faints,bnt to God alone. Andfuch daies as con- tained nothing in them but fìtperfiition, as the conception and affumption of the virgin Marie,we haue cut off.Thus loth the Churchwith vs obferue holydaies, andno otherwife. Indeede the ignorant multitude among vs fade greatly in the obferuing of dares. For they greatly folem-nife the time of the birth of Chrill, and then they keepe few or nomarkets : but the Lords day is not accorcltnaly refpeaed: and men will not be diffwa- f 10 ty, 20 25 30 îS
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