To all that observe dayes. F. B. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78109 of text R170409 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing B64). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A78109 Wing B64 ESTC R170409 45789144 ocm 45789144 172457 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A78109) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 172457) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2630:23) To all that observe dayes. F. B. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1660] Signed: F.B. Date and place of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in: Friends' Library (London, England). eng Anti-Catholicism -- England -- Early works to 1800. Christmas -- England -- Early works to 1800. Society of Friends -- England -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. A78109 R170409 (Wing B64). civilwar no To all that observe dayes. The Lord is a witnesse against all your idolatry who are following idols, and observing dayes, and times, and sea F. B 1660 849 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-08 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion To all that observe Dayes . THe Lord is a witnesse against all your Idolatry who are following Idols , and observing dayes , and times , and seasons , which is idolatry . Oh London ! what , art thou falling back into Popish Idolatry again ? which sometime there hath been a spirit in thee which hath denyed ? What , have you lost your zeal for the Lord ? and is your zeal quite dead which once was in you against the practices of the whore of Rome ? Alas , what do you meane , in your observing the Popish Mass-dayes , in observing Christmas , as you call it . I had thought that spirit had been banished ; And I looked e're this , that observing of dayes would have been quite extinguished ; and I hoped that your mindes and hearts would have enclined to better things , and would wholly have forgotten and left off all your superstitious practices , which had any foundation or savour of the Popish Church . But alas , I see your zeal for God is grown dead , and the spirit of Idolatry cleaves fast unto you ; even so fast is it seated in your hearts , that an Act of Parliament , or any outward teaching or profession can separate you from Idolatry ; and I perceive there is nothing till the just judgement of God fall among you , because of your sins that can worke out of your hearts , the spirit that runs after Idols . You seem to be joyned to Idols , as if an Idol were your God ; is not this idolatry ? As if you kept dayes wholly to the Lord , you keep your Shops shut , and you forbear all manner of worke , and you put on your fine apparell ; and yet you go into vanity , into pride and wantonnesse , and commits great wickednesse in the sight of God , in pleasures , in sports , and lusts , and drunkennesse , and idlenesse , and all this is idolatry . And thus you keep your holy-dayes , as you call them , spending your time in vanity , both Masters and servants , Parents and children ; And ye say ye will keep Christmas , and ye are greatly offended at them that will not , and cries against them , and scoffes at their godliness ; and thus are you glewed to the old customes of the Romish Church , that whore , from whence you have learned these things ; for she was the first that ever instituted and practiced these cursed abominations ; and her practices which she was the author of , are you zealously performing even in London , the place of great Reformation as you professe : And thus are you doing , that call your selves the Reformed Churches , and that seems in words to deny her ; yet are you treading in her steps of idolatry . What , observing Christmas in London yet ? What , ye of the Reformed Churches ? What , ye that have seemed some years since to turne away from these things , are ye even again observing these things ? Oh! hypocrisie and deceit fills your hearts . Oh yee hypocrites ! that cries against the Romish Church , and yet are observing of her practices , in feasting and ryoting and ryotousness , in drinking and wantonnesse , in idleness and sports , and this ye call keeping the holy-dayes . Oh wretched idolatry ! The Lords judgements will come upon these things , the Lord is a witnesse against you . What , is all your profession come to this ? Have not some of you cryed against the Pope and his inventions these many years ? and are you sitten down in the practice of his inventions ? It seems you are but reformed in words , and onely hath denyed the Pope in words , but are beholding to him for an invention , that ye may keep Holy-days as ye say , which ye keep unholy ; and manifold abominations in those days do abound to your shame . Therefore repent ye Idolaters , the time is at hand when the Lord will overturn , and overthrow all your idolatrous wayes , and practices . As for the Quakers , they feare God , and they dare not joyne with you in these abominations ; and therefore you despise them , and say in your hearts , who shall controul you ; for these things will ye do , and none shall prevent you . And thus is the Popish spirit of Idolatry shewed forth in thee , oh London , and thy reformed peeople are guilty of Popish superstitions and vain idolatries , till the judgements of the Lord enter upon you , and smite you , you will not regard nor return . F. B.