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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1 All such wherein neither wit of mind, nor exercise of body is used, as Dice-play, and some Games at Cards, for in them is nothing but an expectation of an uncertain event, wherein neither wit of mind, nor exercise of body is used, which are the main ends of Sports and Recreations, either for the refreshing of our minds, ⟨p. 33⟩or bodies, that we may thereby be the better enabled for the honouring of God in the discharge of the duties of our place and calling.
1 All such wherein neither wit of mind, nor exercise of body is used, as Dice-play, and some Games at Cards, for in them is nothing but an expectation of an uncertain event, wherein neither wit of mind, nor exercise of body is used, which are the main ends of Sports and Recreations, either for the refreshing of our minds, ⟨p. 33⟩or bodies, that we may thereby bee the better enabled for the honouring of God in the discharge of the duties of our place and calling.
2 Such as bring danger to men, as of old was fighting with Beasts, and now Matches at Foot-ball, fighting at Cudgels, especially fighting with sharp Weapons,1 much like the playing of Joabs and Abners men, who at length killed one another.
2 Such as bring danger to men, as of old was fighting with Beasts, and now Matches at Foot-bal, fighting at Cudgels, especially fighting with sharp Weapons,1 much like the playing of Ioabs and Abners men, who at length killed one another.