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[Sidenote cp: _See Sir Christop. Heydons answer to Mr. Chambers,
pag. 368. and how the fathers answere this. Bellarmin. de sanct.
Cultu, cap. 10._]
[Sidenote cq: _English glosse._]
[Sidenote cr: _Galat. 3. 3._]
[Sidenote cs: _See Ambrose in Galat. 4. & August. epist. 119.
cap. 7._]
[Sidenote ct: _Dr. Fulke in Galat. 4. 10._]
[Sidenote cu: _See Dr. Whitgifts defence of his answere to the
admonit. fol. 538. 539._]
Yea, but the words of the Commandement are, _sixe daies shalt thou
labour_: _Ergo_, there should be no holie day besides the Lords day.
[cx]Protestant Diuines answere that the clause (_sixe daies shalt thou
labour_) is a permission, or a remission of Gods right, who might
chalenge to himselfe all our time for his worke, and not a restraint for
any man from seruing of God on any day. For the Iewes beside the Sabbath
had diuers other feasts; as _Easter_, _the feast of vnleauened bread_,
_the feast of first fruits_, _Whitsuntide_, _the feast of blowing
Trumpets_, _the feast of Tabernacles_; all which (as we reade Leuiticus
23) they kept by Gods appointment holie, notwithstanding these words of
the law, _sixe daies shalt thou labour_. And so the Christian Church in
all ages hath vpon iust occasions separated some weeke daies vnto the
praising of the Lord, and rest from labour. Ioel 2. 15. _Blow the
trumpet in Sion, sanctifie a fast, call a solemne assemblie._ [cy]Daies
of publike fasting for some great iudgement, daies of publike reioycing
for some great benefit, are not vnlawfull, but exceeding commendable,
yea necessarie. Whosoeuer doubts of the Churches libertie herein, or of
the practise of this libertie, may peruse the ninth chapter of _Ester_,
in which it will appeare, that Gods people by the commandement of
_Mordecai_, did euery yeare solemnize and keepe holy the fourteenth and
fifteenth day of the moneth _Adar_, in remembrance of their great
deliuerie from the Treason of _Haman_. Vpon these grounds the last euer
renouned Parliament enacted, That wee should for euer spend the prime
part of this present fifth of Nouember in praying and praising the Lord,
for his vnspeakable goodnesse in deliuering our King, Queene, Prince and
States of this realme from that hellish, horrible, bloody, barbarous
intended massacre by Gunpowder. Now that I may for my part execute the
will of the Parliament (sparing the _Nouelists_, and referring such as
desire to bee further satisfied in this argument of holy dayes, vnto
the iudicious writings of my most honoured and honourable maister,
_Archbishop Whitgift_, in the [cz]defence of his answere to the
Admonition) I proceede in the text, _praise him in his noble acts,
praise him according to his excellent greatnesse_.
[Sidenote cx: _B. Babington in 4. com. Caluins Cat. Dr. Whitgift
vbi supra fol. 542. & 553. six daies thou maiest labour._]
[Sidenote cy: _Perkins aur. Cat. cap. 23._]
[Sidenote cz: _From pag. 538. to 555._]
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