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This kind of game therefore causeth […] loss of time, having no stint or end in it: which other games of necessity must needs have, either the body being over-wearied, or the weaker side for want of skill past hope of winning.

This kinde of game therefore causeth 〈…〉 losse of time, hauing no stint or end in it: which other games of necessitie must needes haue, either the body being ouer-wearied, or the weaker side for want of skill past hope of winning.

This might have done well for a Caution; it doth scarce well for an Argument. For first, for the proposition of the former Syllogism, if it be understood without limitation, that time ought to be spent always in the best duties simply, it will over-throw all kind of disport whatsoever. For it fighteth equally against all, be it of hazard mere or mixed, or of exercise of bodily strength or wit. But that is not sound; neither is it the Apostles meaning or purpose in that place to cut of all kind of recreation, which Gods word giveth good warrant for; but to ⟨p. 187⟩cut off that idle and vain trifling out and misspending of time needlessly, not only by recreations, but by other worldly occasions,^r whereby men many times over-lade themselves, with neglect of those things that do most principally concern them, and ^qwhich our Saviour therefore would have them to seek principally and in the first place, using the main as a by-matter, and by-matters as the main, as one sometime said wittily; and ^sliving rather to any end then what they should live unto. And thus not only gaming and play, but ^tbuying also and selling, and building and planting, and