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

Misunderstand me not. I am now speaking to none but guilty hypocrites, and not to any faithful holy Ministers; And to such I say, when you have done nothing but coldly read over the public Prayers, or as coldly and crudely added your own, and tired the hearers, with a dry, a sapless, lifeless, unexperienced discourse, and then send them as a wearied people, to dancing and sports for a needful recreation, is this like the work of a Pastor of Souls. When you have cried down other mens Praying and Preaching, and then tell the people that the Praying and Preaching which you recommend to them as ⟨p. 125⟩better, will not digest well, without a Dance or Recreation after it, to expel the peoples weariness; is not this to disgrace your own Prayers and Preaching which you before commended to them? And when you have done, if after this you speak against others for their long Praying, and for so much Preaching and Hearing, as if they never had enough, is not this to commend what you discommend? and to tell the people that those mens Praying and Preaching whom you revile, is such as doth not weary their Auditors; when yours is such, as will tire men, if it be long, or if they be not Recreated after it with a Piper, a •idler, or a Dance? O that the Ithacian Bishops of the World, and all the Clergy of their mind, would at least hear Hooker in the Preface to his Eccles. pol. how little their cause is beholden to such Patrons, and how well it might spare them!

Misunderstand me not. I am now speaking to none but guilty hypocrites, and not to any faithful holy Ministers; And to such I say, when you have done nothing but coldly read over the publick Prayers, or as coldly and crudely added your own, and tired the hearers, with a dry, a sapless, lifeless, unexperienced discourse, and then send them as a wearied people, to dancing and sports for a needful recreation, is this like the work of a Pastour of Souls. When you have cryed down other mens Praying and Preaching, and then tell the people that the Praying and Preacing which you recommend to them as ⟨p. 125⟩better, will not digest well, without a Dance or Recreation after it, to expel the peoples weariness; is not this to disgrace your own Prayers and Preaching which you before commended to them? And when you have done, if after this you speak against others for their long Praying, and for so much Preaching and Hearing, as if they never had enough, is not this to commend what you discommend? and to tell the people that those mens Praying and Preaching whom you revile, is such as doth not weary their Auditours; when yours is such, as will tiremen, if it be long, or if they be not Recreated after it with a Piper, a idler, or a Dance? O that the Ithacian Bishops of the World, and all the Clergie of their mind, would at least hear Hooker in the Preface to his Eccles. pol. how little their cause is beholden to such Patrons, and how well it might spare them!