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The life and death of Mr. Tho. Wilson, minister of Maidstone, in the county…
The life and death of Mr. Tho. Wilson, minister of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, M.A.
London? : s.n., 1672
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I. Reason.
If any civil work be forbid on the Lords Day, then civil recreations, for honest pleasure calls a man away from things Spiritual; Zanchy on the fourth Commandment as well as honest labour, recreation breaks the rest as much as civil work.
II. Reason.
If recreations civil be not fit for consecrated places, then not fit for consecrated times, fo[…]me that is holy, is the measure of holy Actions, for divers be called holy, not from the formal cause, but final, as ordained to holy things; Zanchy on the fourth Commandment, A day applied to civil works is no more holy but common, and a thing consecrated is profaned; by a civil use, and is not the Lords Day profaned by sports, though civil; now Recreations, Archery, May-games, Dancing, Morris-dancing, may not be in consecrated places, Cannon 88. no Plays, and to play and dance is all one, as Exod. 32. 6, 19. And therefore not sit for consecrated times, as the Lords Day is, for greater is he that Sanctified the Day, then he that Sanctified the place, whether it were by the Lord, or the Apostle, or the Church. Now