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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
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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 Such as are forbidden by the Laws of the Land, or place where we live; for Sports and Recreations being among indifferent things, the Magistrates authority is especially of force in them; and in this respect our ordinary Stage-Plays in this City are unlawful.
4 Such as are forbidden by the Laws of the Land, or place where we live; for Sports and Recreations being among indifferent things, the Magistrates authority is especially of force in them; and in this respect our ordinary Stage-Playes in this City are unlawful.
II. The next thing to be considered is, how those Sports which are in themselves lawful, are made unlawful by mens manner of using them.
1 When too much time is spent in them. Recreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your Calling, and not to glut your selves with them, so as to make your selves the more unfit, both for the duties of your Callings, and of Gods service; you must know, that the main and principal end of Gods sending you into the world, was not to follow your pleasures, but that you should spend your time and strength in the duties of Gods service and in the means whereby you may be fitted thereunto.
1 When too much time is spent in them. Recreations should bee as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your Calling, and not to glut your selves with them, so as to make your selves the more unfit, both for the duties of your Callings, and of Gods service; you must know, that the main and principal end of Gods sending you into the world, was not to follow your pleasures, but that you should spend your time and strength in the duties of Gods service and in the means whereby you may be fitted thereunto.