Esther 9

The keeping of Lent, fasting daies; Ember weekes, are all in a ciuill respect, for the breed of cattell, the maintenance of nauigation, and the plentie of all things. Ecclesiasticall, when set times are obserued in the Church for order sake, without superstition, or opinion of w…

Thus Moses by divine direction wrote a memorial of that victory obtained over Amalek as the fruit and return of prayer, and built there an Altar with this Inscription Jehovah Nissi, The Lord my Banner, Exodus 17. 14, 15. Thus Mordecai and Hester took all care to perpetuate the m…

O blessed be God for that teeming Providence that has already brought forth more than seventy years liberty and peace to the Church of God. I shall move in behalf of this Providence, that you would do by it, as the Jows by their Purim, Esther 9. 27, 28. and the rather, because w…

All these feasts we find appointed by God himself, and imposed upon the Israelites (Leviticus 23). And not only did they account themselves obliged to keep these days holy, which were enjoined by the divine command, but those also which were appointed by human authority; and suc…