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Upon his day, the harvest being completed, an image of straw was carried about, called the corn, or Bartholomew, baby; and masters, mistresses, men, and maidens danced and rioted together; thus, under the guise of harmless joy, much evil was perpetrated. Ed. 26 'A blandation, an obsolete word, which means wheedling, flattering speech, soft words. Ed.
True, they say, through Christ; but that is brought in as a blandation,42 merely to delude the simple with, and is an horrible lie; for we read not in all the word of God, as to personal justification in the sight of God from the curse, and that is the question under consideration, that it must be by man's righteousness, as made prevalent by Christ's, but contrariwise by his, and his only, without the deeds, works, or righteousness of the law which is our righteousness.
Ed. 41 This is variously interpreted, but may it not mean an ancient mode of mocking, now called taking a sight? Ed. 42 "Blandation," a piece of flattery. "They flattered the Bishop of Ely with this blandation." Camden. 'Disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious. 1 Peter 2:4 Printed for Francis Smith, at the Elephant and Castle, without Temple Bar, 1672.
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