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This volume includes selections from the Christmas Postil, specifically sermons on the Gospel lessons for Christmas Eve, the Early Christmas Service, St. Stephen’s Day, the Sunday after Christmas, New Year’s Day, and the Festival of the Epiphany.

be God and God’s. Thus all must be misled who insist on their own judgment. All who come to their self-conceit and give it up celebrate the true sabbath. Where this self-conceit arrives at the point that it uses the word of God to justify its presumption and attacks Scripture with its light, there is no more counsel nor help; for then this self-conceit thinks it has God’s word on its side and its duty is to defend it. This is the last fall and Lucifer’s misfortune, concerning which Solomon says:
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