whereas it might bee thought, that the Apostle doth not condemn all Holy-days, because both he permitteth others to observe days, Rom. 14. 5. And he himself also did observe one of the Jewish Feasts, Act. 18. 21. It is easily answered, that our Holy-days have no warrant from these places, except our Opposites will say, that they esteem their Festival days holier then other days, and that they observe the Jewish Festivities. Neither of which they doe acknowledge; and if they did, yet they must consider, that that which the Apostle either said or did hereanent, is to be expounded and understood of bearing with the weak Jews, whom he permitted to esteem one day above another, and for whose cause he did in his own practice, thus far apply himself to their infirmity at that time, when they could not possibly be, as yet, fully and throughly instructed, concerning Christian Liberty, and the abrogation of the Ceremonial Law, because the Gospel was as yet not fully propagated: and when the Mosaical Rites were like a dead man not yet buried, as Augustine's simile runs. So that all this can make nothing for Holy-days, after the full promulgation of the Gospel, and after that the Jewish Ceremonies are not onely dead, but also buried, and so, deadly to be used by us. Hence it is, that the Apostle will not bear with the observation days in Christian Churches, who have known God as he speaks.
