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2. We find that even on other days, the worst men are most addicted to these sports, and are the greatest pleaders for them, and that the more they use them the worse they grow; yea that the times of using them are frequently the times of the eruption of many heinous sins. I have lived in my Youth in many places where sometimes Shows or uncouth Spectacles have been their sports at certain seasons of the year, and sometimes Morris-dancings, and sometimes Stage-plays, and sometimes Wakes and Revels; And all men observed that these were the times of the most flagitious crimes, and that there was then more drunkenness, more fighting, more horrid Oaths and Curses uttered than in many weeks at other times; Then it was that the enraged sensualists did act the part of furious Devils, in scorning and reviling all that were soberer and better than themselves, and railing at those that minded God and their everlasting state, as Precisians, Puritans and Hypocrites; Then it was that they were ready in their fury, if they durst, to assault the very persons and houses of them that would not do as they did. Whatever is done in such Crowds and Tumults, is done with the impetuosity of rage and passion, and with the greatest audacity, and the violation of all Laws and regulating restraints. As many waters make a furious stream, and great fires where much fuel is conjunct do disdain restraint, and quickly devour all before them; so is it with the raging folly of Youth, when voluptuous persons ⟨p. 112⟩once get together, and their lusts take fire, and they fall into a torrent of profuse sensuality. Yea those that at other times are sober, and when they come home do seem of another mind, yet do as the rest when they are among them, and seem as bad and furious as they: As we see among the London Apprentices on the day called Goodtides Tuesday, or May day, when they once get out together and are in motion, they seem all alike, and those that are most sober and timorous alone, in the rout are heightened to the audacity of the rest; And as in an Army the sight of the multitude, and the noise of Drums and Guns, puts valour into the fearful; and they will go on with others, that else would run away from a proportionable single combat and danger; And as Boys at School that fear to offend singly, yet fear not to bar out their Master in a combination when all concur;

2. We find that even on other daies, the worst men are most addicted to these sports, and are the greatest pleaders for them, and that the more they use them the worse they grow; yea that the times of using them are frequently the times of the eruption of many heynous sins. I have lived in my Youth in many places where sometimes Shews or uncouth Spectacles have been their sports at certain seasons of the year, and sometimes Morrice-dancings, and sometimes Stage-playes, and sometimes Wakes and Revels; And all men observed that these were the times of the most flagitious crimes, and that there was then more drunkenness, more fighting, more horrid Oathes and Curses uttered than in many weeks at other times; Then it was that the enraged sensualists did act the part of furious Devils, in scorning and reviling all that were soberer and better than themselves, and railing at those that minded God and their everlasting state, as Precisians, Puritans and Hypocrites; Then it was that they were ready in their fury, if they durst, to assault the very persons and houses of them that would not do as they did. Whatever is done in such Crowdes and Tumults, is done with the impetuosity of rage and passion, and with the greatest audacity, and the violation of all Laws and regulating restraints. As many waters make a furious stream, and great fires where much fuel is conjunct do disdain restraint, and quickly devour all before them; so is it with the raging folly of Youth, when voluptuous persons