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         Heming, Joseph.
      
       
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             Certain quæries touching the rise and observation of Christmas; propounded to the consideration of all such as are zealously (but blindly) affected towards the observation of it. / To which an answer is desired and expected by Joseph Heming.
             Heming, Joseph.
          
           8 p.
           
             [s.n.],
             London :
             printed, Ann: Dom: 1648.
          
           
             Annotation on Thomason copy: "Dec: 19".
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           CERTAIN
           QVAERIES
           TOUCHING
           The
           Rise
           and
           Observation
           OF
           CHRISTMAS
           ;
           Propounded
           to
           the
           consideration
           of
           all
           such
           as
           are
           zealously
           (
           but
           blindly
           )
           affected
           towards
           the
           Observation
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           To
           which
           an
           answer
           is
           desired
           and
           expected
           BY
           
             JOSEPH
             HEMING
             .
          
        
         
           LONDON
           Printed
           ,
           
             Ann
             :
             Dom
             :
          
           1648.
           
        
      
    
     
       
       
       
         
           Certaine
           Quaeries
           touching
           the
           rise
           and
           observation
           of
           
             Christmas
             ,
          
           &c.
           
        
         
           
             Quaere
             I.
             
          
           
           WHether
           such
           religious
           customes
           as
           are
           binding
           to
           all
           the
           Churches
           of
           Iesus
           Christ
           ,
           ought
           not
           to
           have
           sure
           footing
           upon
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           or
           Apostolicall
           practice
           ?
        
         
           
             II.
             
          
           
           Whether
           you
           can
           substantially
           prove
           that
           Christ
           was
           borne
           on
           the
           25
           of
           
             December
             ?
          
           and
           what
           your
           proofes
           are
           ?
        
         
           
             III.
             
          
           
           Whether
           the
           celebration
           of
           that
           day
           (
           grant
           he
           was
           borne
           on
           it
           )
           can
           be
           clearely
           warranted
           by
           you
           from
           Scripture
           ?
           and
           what
           your
           Scriptures
           are
           ?
        
         
         
           
             IV.
             
          
           
           Whether
           you
           can
           cleare
           it
           by
           sound
           consequence
           from
           the
           New
           Testament
           ,
           though
           not
           set
           downe
           there
           
             in
             totidein
             verbis
             ?
          
        
         
           
             V.
             
          
           
           Whether
           you
           can
           do
           it
           by
           universall
           tradition
           ?
        
         
           
             VI
             .
          
           
           Whether
           (
           in
           case
           it
           can
           be
           evidenced
           by
           none
           of
           these
           ,
           
             viz.
          
           plaine
           Text
           ,
           sollid
           Inference
           ,
           universall
           Tradition
           )
           it
           be
           not
           a
           moere
           humane
           invention
           ,
           and
           so
           Will-worship
           ?
           And
           how
           you
           will
           one
           day
           acquit
           your selves
           before
           God
           ,
           for
           placing
           ,
           and
           crying
           up
           mens
           Inventions
           ,
           instead
           of
           the
           Institutions
           of
           Iefus
           Christ
           ?
           And
           whether
           it
           were
           not
           faithfull
           dealing
           with
           poore
           simple
           people
           to
           tell
           them
           that
           you
           have
           neither
           of
           these
           to
           warrant
           it
           ?
        
         
           
             VII
             .
          
           
           (
           Since
           daies
           and
           times
           commanded
           by
           God
           himselfe
           to
           be
           observed
           under
           the
           Law
           ,
           were
           and
           are
           unlawfull
           under
           the
           Gospell
           )
           Whether
           daies
           and
           times
           commanded
           by
           men
           ,
           and
           not
           
           by
           God
           ,
           under
           the
           Gospell
           ,
           are
           not
           lesse
           lawfull
           .
        
         
           
             VIII
             .
          
           
           Whether
           the
           true
           and
           genuine
           Interpretation
           of
           
             Christmas
          
           be
           
             Christ
             man
             ?
          
           And
           whether
           to
           perswade
           people
           t
           is
           so
           ,
           be
           not
           to
           abuse
           and
           delude
           them
           ?
           And
           whether
           we
           may
           not
           as
           well
           interpret
           
             Candlemas
             Candleman
             ,
             Michaelmas
             Michaelman
             ,
          
           as
           
             Christmas
             Christman
             ?
          
        
         
           
             IX
             .
          
           
           Whether
           the
           Saints
           are
           bound
           to
           rejoice
           in
           the
           birth
           of
           Christ
           on
           that
           day
           men
           superstitiously
           call
           
             Christmas
             ,
          
           more
           then
           at
           other
           times
           ?
           And
           whether
           the
           Lords
           day
           be
           not
           [
           the
           ]
           day
           appointed
           for
           them
           to
           rejoice
           on
           ?
        
         
           
             X.
             
          
           
           Whether
           
             Christmas
          
           day
           ought
           in
           any
           respect
           to
           be
           esteemed
           above
           another
           of
           the
           Weeke
           daies
           ?
           And
           whether
           people
           may
           not
           without
           offence
           to
           God
           follow
           their
           lawfull
           vocations
           on
           that
           day
           ?
        
         
           
             XI
             .
          
           
           Whether
           you
           thinke
           the
           Parliament
           and
           Assemblie
           have
           erred
           and
           played
           the
           fooles
           in
           
           condemning
           and
           rasing
           out
           Holy-daies
           not
           warranted
           in
           the
           Word
           ?
           And
           whether
           to
           observe
           them
           be
           not
           highly
           to
           dislike
           ,
           and
           flatly
           to
           contradict
           (
           in
           point
           of
           practice
           at
           least
           )
           their
           proceedings
           in
           order
           to
           a
           Reformation
           ?
        
         
           
             XII
             .
          
           
           Whether
           (
           since
           most
           men
           and
           women
           in
           
             England
          
           do
           blindlie
           and
           superstitiouslie
           beleeve
           Christ
           was
           borne
           on
           that
           day
           )
           preaching
           on
           it
           doth
           not
           nourish
           and
           strengthen
           them
           in
           that
           beleefe
           ?
        
         
           
             XIII
             .
          
           
           Whether
           this
           
             Feast
          
           had
           not
           its
           rise
           and
           growth
           from
           Christians
           conformitie
           to
           the
           mad
           Feasts
           
             Saturnalia
          
           (
           kept
           in
           
             December
          
           to
           
             Saturne
          
           the
           Father
           of
           Gods
           )
           in
           which
           there
           was
           a
           Sheafe
           offered
           to
           
             Ceres
          
           Goddesse
           of
           Corne
           ;
           a
           hymne
           in
           her
           praise
           called
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           or
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           ?
           And
           whether
           those
           Christians
           by
           name
           ,
           to
           cloake
           it
           ,
           did
           not
           afterwards
           call
           it
           
             Yule
             ;
          
           and
           
             Christmas
          
           (
           as
           though
           it
           were
           for
           Christs
           honour
           ?
           )
           And
           whether
           it
           be
           not
           yet
           by
           some
           (
           more
           ancient
           then
           truelie
           or
           knowinglie
           religious
           )
           called
           
             Yule
             ,
          
           and
           
           the
           mad
           plaies
           or
           sports
           (
           wherewith
           t
           is
           celebrated
           ,
           like
           those
           
             Saturnalia
             )
             Yule-games
          
           ?
           And
           whether
           from
           the
           offering
           of
           that
           Sheafe
           to
           
             Ceres
             ;
          
           from
           that
           song
           in
           her
           praise
           ;
           from
           those
           gifts
           the
           Heathens
           gave
           their
           friends
           in
           the
           Calends
           of
           
             Ianuarie
             ,
             ominis
             gratia
             ;
          
           did
           not
           arise
           or
           spring
           our
           blazes
           ;
           
             Christmas
          
           Kariles
           ,
           and
           
             New-yeares
          
           gifts
           ?
        
         
           
             XIV
             .
          
           
           Whether
           conformitie
           to
           ,
           and
           retention
           of
           heathenish
           Customes
           be
           commendable
           in
           Christains
           ,
           sutable
           or
           agreeable
           with
           Gospell
           principles
           ,
           though
           under
           pretext
           of
           Christ
           Honour
           and
           Worship
           ?
        
         
           
             XV
             .
          
           
           Whether
           you
           are
           not
           bound
           to
           prove
           your
           practice
           for
           the
           conviction
           and
           satisfaction
           of
           your
           Brethren
           ,
           whose
           duty
           it
           is
           to
           walke
           with
           you
           in
           things
           agreeable
           to
           the
           mind
           of
           Christ
           ?
           And
           in
           case
           you
           cannot
           ;
           Whether
           you
           ought
           not
           to
           acknowledge
           your
           errour
           ,
           lay
           downe
           your
           practice
           (
           as
           others
           have
           done
           theirs
           )
           no
           longer
           befooling
           and
           misleading
           the
           People
           committed
           to
           your
           charge
           ?
        
         
         
           
             XVI
             .
          
           
           Whether
           in
           case
           you
           returne
           no
           answer
           to
           these
           Quaeries
           ,
           I
           have
           not
           ground
           sufficient
           to
           conclude
           you
           utterly
           unable
           to
           give
           any
           rationall
           account
           of
           your
           practice
           ,
           now
           put
           upon
           it
           ?
        
         
           
             From
             my
             Study
             in
             
               Vttoxeter
               .
            
             
               1648.
               
            
          
        
         
           FINIS
        
         
      
    
    

