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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.
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
1. Sports and pleasures are as expressly forbidden, as bodily labour in our ordinary vocation; for he that said thou shalt do no manner of work, said also, thou shalt not find thine own pleasures, &c.
1. Sports and pleasures are as expresly forbidden, as bodily labour in our ordinary vocation; for he that said thou shalt do no manner of work, said also, thou shalt not find thine own pleasures, &c.