A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

What should hinder, but that learning to Sing, or Dance, or Fence, or make a modish Leg, might consist with learning to know God in Christ, in which Knowledge stands Eternal Life! Whatsoever hath real Excellency, or hath any thing in it of true Ornament, will no way disagree with the most serious Christianity. And how lovely is the Conjunction of the well-accomplished Gentleman, and the serious Christian! Only sever Inconsistencies, as how fashionably ⟨p. 197⟩to Curse, and Swear, and Damn, and Debauch, which are thought to belong to good Breeding in our Age.

What should hinder, but that learning to Sing, or Dance, or Fence, or make a modish Leg, might consist with learning to know God in Christ, in which Knowledge stands Eternal Life! Whatsoever hath real Excellency, or hath any thing in it of true Ornament, will no way disagree with the most serious Christianity. And how lovely is the Conjunction of the well-accomplisht Gentleman, and the serious Christian! Only sever Inconsistencies, as how fashionably ⟨p. 197⟩to Curse, and Swear, and Damn, and Debauch, which are thought to belong to good Breeding in our Age.

Let not Religion, Reason, Shame, and Common Sense, be so totally abandoned all at once, as that the same Persons shall take care to have their Children baptized into Christ's Name, and be taught to renounce, by their Deeds, that Great Name, almost as soon as they can pronounce the Word.

Let not Religion, Reason, Shame, and Common Sense, be so totally abandoned all at once, as that the same Persons shall take care to have their Children baptized into Christ's Name, and be taught to renounce, by their Deeds, that Great Name, almost assoon as they can pronounce the Word.