Esther 9

Sober mirth, and the moderate use of the good creatures of God, is lawful at any time of the year, and there never was any minister that preached or spoke against that; but to have better cheer upon a Popish holy-day than at another time, merely upon this account, because forsoo…

For he makes mention of priestly letters differing from those in common use. Hence the author of the Targum affirms in the book of Esther that the Jews in the days of Purim read the volume of the law according to the script of the Hebrew character (Esther 9:27); clearly indicati…

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…