The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy…

O how unfit is Youth in such a Crowd, to think of God, or Eternity, or Death; or to hear the sober warnings of a Preacher, in comparison of what the same persons be, when they are at Church, and Congregated purposely to hear Gods Word. Go among them and try them then, with any grave and wholesome Counsel: Ask them whether they are penitent Converts, and whether they are prepared for another world. Try what answer they will give you, and whether they will not deride you more than at another time? I would those that write and plead ⟨p. 113⟩for this under the name of harmless recreations, would go amongst them sometimes with sober Counsel, and learn to be wise by their own experience; that their errors might not be of such pernicious consequence to mens souls as it hath been. Reason it self hath no place or audience in the noise of youthful furious lusts. They will laugh at Reason, as well as at Scripture; and scorn sobriety, as well (though not so much) as holiness. If even in the meetings of grave persons, it have ever been observed that individual persons are apt to be carried by the stream, and otherwise than their talk importeth at other times when they are single, what wonder if it be so in evil with unbridled youth?

O how unfit is Youth in such a Crowd, to think of God, or Eternity, or Death; or to hear the sober warnings of a Preacher, in comparison of what the same persons be, when they are at Church, and Congregated purposely to hear Gods Word. Go among them and try them then, with any grave and wholesome Counsel: Ask them whether they are penitent Converts, and whether they are prepared for another world. Try what answer they will give you, and whether they will not deride you more than at another time? I would those that write and plead ⟨p. 113⟩for this under the name of harmless recreations, would go amongst them sometimes with sober Counsel, and learn to be wise by their own experience; that their errours might not be of such pernicious consequence to mens souls as it hath been. Reason it self hath no place or audience in the noise of youthful furious lusts. They will laugh at Reason, as well as at Scripture; and scorn sobriety, as well (though not so much) as holiness. If even in the meetings of grave persons, it have ever been observed that individual persons are apt to be carryed by the stream, and otherwise than their talk importeth at other times when they are single, what wonder if it be so in evil with unbridled youth?