Preached at S. Pauls, The Sunday after the Conversion of S. Paul. 27. Jan. 1627 [1627/8]

              preached at S pauls the T sunday after the conversion of S paul 27 2 jan 152 162 r627 16278 ACT 20254nd 20254 2025 20.25 2025 AND ND NOW BEHOLD I1 KNOW THAT THATALL ALL YEE AMONG WHOM I1 HAVE GONE PREACHING THE KINGDOME OF GOD SHALL SEE MY FACE NO MORE HEN S chrysostomo chrysostome Chrysostome calls christmas day metropolin metropolit Metropolin W WHEN omnium festorum festorum the metropolitan holyday the prin cipall cipala fest festivall fesdvall festivals ivall of the church he is likely to intend onely those festivalls festivally festivalls which were of the churches later institution and means not to enwrap the sabbath in that comparison As S augustine sayes of the sacrament of baptisme baptiste Baptisme that it is limen eccless ecclesw ecclesix Eccle ecciesim six sw the threshold over which we step into the church so is christmas day limen festorum festorum the threshold over which we step into the festivall festivals festivall celebration of some other of christs actions and passions and vic- torius overcommings commings over of all the acts of his passion such as his resurr- ection and ascension for but for christmas day we could celebrate none of these dayes and so that day is limen festorum festorum the thresh- old over which we passe to the rest but the sabbath is not onely limen or ianua lanua banua ecclesine ecclesice Eccle sice the doore by which we enter into the church and into the consideration what the church hath done but limen mundi the doore by which we enter into the consideration of the world how and when the world was made of nothing at the creation without which we had been so far from knowing that there had been a church or that there had been a god as that we our selves 1