The life and death of Mr. Tho. Wilson, minister of Maidstone, in the county…

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 ⟨p. 81⟩I know not why they may not be fittest in consecrated places, if they be most sit for consecrated times; and I cannot in conscience read that which I take to be against mans Law, and our Church, the Scriptures, Councils, Divines, Ancient, and Modern Schoolmen, and Reasons, but think my self bound for conscience towards God, to maintain the Truth and Holiness of the two Testaments, and to keep the Commands of God, and the Faith of Jesus Christ, as a Preacher of Christs everlasting Gospel, least people should think Preaching to be yea and nay.

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 applyed 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