A37046:1202
The law unsealed
The law unsealed: or, A practical exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience. By the learned, laborious, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow.
Glasgow: printed by Robert Sanders, 1676
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.
4. Undecent conversing, going abroad in company with rash and offensive freedom, when as entering the house yea, coming near the very doors of an whores house is forbidden, Prov. 5. 8. the ill and prejudice whereof may be seen in Dina•s going abroad belike without an errand, Gen. 34. 1. 2. &c. Potiphers Wife did cast her self in Josephs company thus, though he gave her no entertainment, but in the fear of the Lord fled from her.
5. Add dancing a thing condemned by the people of God as no honest recreation, at least when in companies that are mixed, and (as we call it) promiscuous dancing, such as useth to be at marriages, and the like occasions, both of old (as may be seen in the Canons of several Councils) as also of late by our own and other reformed Churches.
5. Add dancing a thing condemned by the people of God as no honest recreation, at least when in companies that are mixed, and (as we call it) promiscous dancing, such as useth to be at marriages, and the like occasions, both of old (as may be seen in the Canons of several Councels) as also of late by our own and other reformed Churches.
I shall say these things in short of it: First, that ye will not find it mentioned in Scripture in the person of any of the godly, it becoming an Herodias's daughter better then professors of Religion. 2. That it will be readily fou•d to indispose for the exercise of godliness, and so to be inconsistent, or at best, hardly consistent with either a pious and lively, or a sober frame of spirit. 3. That it marreth not only the gravity of persons for the time, putting them in a sort of regular distraction, but lessened the esteem of such persons; this insobriety being like a dead fly that make eth the box of ointment (if any be) to stink. 4, That in Scripture examples we find this sort of dancing only among profane and loose people, and recorded also as a piece of their stain or blot, rendering them some way infamous; and oftentimes it hath also snares waiting upon it, as in the Israelites amongst themselves,