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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 6 › Rules drawn from the Negative part of this model.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What God hath joined together let no man put asunder.
Carnal sports and pleasures are as great a profanation of the Sabbath, as the most servile labour and drudgery in the world. Dicing and carding, do as much violate the Law of the Sabbath, as digging and carting; playing as much as ploughing; dancing and morris-games, as much as working in the smiths-forge, ⟨p. 140⟩Bowling and shooting, as well as hewing of wood and drawing of water.
Carnal sports and pleasures are as great a profanation of the Sabbath, as the most servile labour and drudgery in the world. Dicing and carding, do as much violate the Law of the Sabbath, as digging and carting; playing as much as ploughing; dancing and morrice-games, as much as working in the smiths-forge, ⟨p. 140⟩Bowling and shooting, as well as hewing of wood and drawing of water.
The reasons are clear; for