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To be present at Feasts and Collations of Weddings, at Birth and Marriage of Children, made by those of the Romish perswasion, is in it self indifferent; nevertheless Believers are advertised to use it to Edification, and to con∣sider if they are sufficiently able to resist the dissolutions and other evils which may there be committed, and also to reprove them. In which Feasts are not comprised those made by Priests at their first Mass, to which it is not lawful to goe.
The Council of Loadicea has proved in the 35th. and 54th. Cannons against the debauches which may happen at Feasts, and has warned Christians not to participate thereof.
As for the Feasts made by Priests at their first Mass, our Discipline had just reason to forbid those of its com∣munion not to be there present, because 'twould be in some sort a silent approving of a thing which has occasi∣oned one of the greatest causes of our separation from the Romish Church, it was by a like principle the Synod of Laodicea prohibited Christians in the 37th. 38th. & 39th. Cannons, not to communicate of any thing as they were wont to use in the Feasts of Jewes, Hereticks, and Pa∣gans.