Preached at S. Dunstans upon Trinity-Sunday. 1624

              preached at S dunstano dunstans dmn duns Dun buntans fans stans upon trinity sunday 624 1624 1162 44. MAT 3.17 317 317 AND LO A VOYCE CAME FROM HEAVEN SAYING THIS IS MY BELOVED SONNE IN WHOM I1 AM WELL PLEASED T HATH been the custome custode of the christian church to appropriate ITcertaine scriptures to certaine dayes for the celebrating of cer- taine mysteries of god or the commemorating of certaine bene- fits from god they who consider the age of the christian church too high or too low too soone or too late either in the cradle as it is exhibited in the acts of the apostles or bedrid bed rid in the corruptions corruptions of rome either before it was come to any growth when persecutions nipped it or when it was so over growne as that prosperity and out- ward splendor swelled it they that consider the church so will never finde a good measure to direct our religious worship of god by for the outward liturgies liturgics and ceremonies of the church but as soon as the christian church had a constant establishment under christian emperours Emperours and before the church had her tympany of worldly prosperity under usurping bishops in this outward service of god there were particular scriptures appropriated to particular dayes particular men have not liked this that it should be so and yet that church which they use to take for their patterne 1I meane geneva as soone as it came to have any convenient establishment by the labours laboure of that reverend man who did so much in the rectify ing thereof admitted this custome custode of celebrating certaine times by the reading of certaine scriptures so that in the pure times of the church without any question and in the corrupter times of the church with- out any infection and in the reformed times of the church without any suspition suspicion of back sliding this custome custode hath beene retained which I11