Ans. FIrst, God giueth not his graces in respect of times, but according to his owne pleasure. Times of praier he chooseth often, and of other godly ex∣ercises, not for the worthines or holines of the times, but for the better disposi∣tion of his seruants in such exercises, to receiue them: yet this was not perpe∣tually obserued: for God appeared to Moses keeping of sheepe, Exod. 3. to A∣mos following his herd, Amos 7. Secondly, wee grant that the Lords day being commanded of God, and so discerned from other daies, may be said to be holier then the rest, in respect of the present vse, but not in the nature of the day: for then could it not haue been changed from the last day in the weeke to the first: as water in Baptisme is holier then other waters, because of the sacred vse, not in it selfe, as by a qualitie of holines inherent. And as for other festiuall daies, which haue not the like institution, they are appoynted onely of the Church, for Christian policie & orders sake, for the exercise of religion. But this now popish, & before time Iewish distinction of daies, as being by their nature ho••••er then other, is flatly against the Apostles rule. Rom. 14.5. One putteth difference be∣tweene day and day, and Galath. 4.10. You obserue daies and moneths, times and yeeres.
Augustine saith, Nos dominicum diem & pascha celebramus, sed quia intelligi∣mus, quo pertineant, non tempora obseruamus, sed quae illis significantur temporibus, Cont. Adimant. cap. 16. We keepe the Lords day and the feast of Easter, not ob∣seruing the times, but remembring what is signified by those times: that is, for what cause they were ordained: Ergo, obseruers of times are reproued.