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"Christmas was not celebrated by the apostolic church. ... During the 5th century, Christmas became an official Roman Catholic holy day. In A.D. 534, Christmas was recognized as an official holy day by the Roman state. The reason that Christmas became a church holy day has nothing to do with the Bible. The Bible does not give the date of Christ's birth. Nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to celebrate Christmas. Christmas (as well as many other pagan practices) was adopted by the Roman church as a missionary strategy." - Brian Schwertley, The Regulative Principle of Worship and Christmas (Free Book), emphases added.

The last ground of mistake is, that the Doctor takes for granted, "That a Church or particular person has power to institute and observe worship not commanded by God." Which remains on him to prove, before he can vindicate his Christmas holiday, (as he and others maintain it) from the double crime of superstition and will-worship, which I prove by this one argument-If all additions to the Word in matters of worship are criminal and sinful, as prohibited by God, Deut. 4:2 and elsewhere, then no man or church can without sin add any worship to that commanded by God. - Daniel Cawdrey (Westminster Divine), A Biblical Response to Superstition, Will-Worship and the Christmas Holiday, Preface, p. 10, Puritan Publications, 1654, reprinted 2012, emphases added.

A Biblical Response to Superstition, Will-Worship and the Christmas Holiday (Hardcover, PDF, MOBI, ePub) by Daniel Cawdrey (1588-1664)

Original Title: DIATRIBE TRIPLEX OR A Threefold Exercitation, Concerning 1. Superstition 2. Will-worship 3. Christmas Festival. With the Reverend and Learned DR. HAMMOND

Daniel Cawdrey (1588-1664) was an astute and learned Presbyterian minister during the golden age of Puritanism. He was called, "a man of great consideration, eminently learned, and a noted member of the assembly of divines." He became one of the leading members of the Westminster Assembly appointed by parliament in 1643 for the regulation of religion, and wrote vigorously on church government and biblical worship.

In this work, Cawdrey exegetically and biblically demonstrates that worship to God is accomplished through God's prescription alone (which is called "the Scriptural law of worship", "the regulative principle of worship", etc., in our day). Anything less is man's invention which leads to superstition and will-worship. He ably defends the regulative principle of worship (that God alone determines the manner in which sinners are to approach him) and demonstrates that even the holiday of Christmas is in fact filled with superstition, and must be considered will-worship (as is not a part of the worship commandment by God in the Bible, nor is it a holy day commanded by God in the Bible). This is a powerful and scholarly treatise on holding steadfastly to God's prescribed manner of worship, and an exhortation to throw out all man-made inventions that hinder communion with God.

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Daniel Cawdry (Cawdrey) (1588-1664), Westminster Divine, Biographical Sketch

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A Dispute Against English Popish Ceremonies, in Gillespie's Works volume one

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