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Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ...…
Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ... To which may be added, a short scriptural catechism, accommodated unto their capacities. / By Cotton Mather.
Boston: printed by R. Pierce for Nicholas Buttolph, 1690
THE YOUNG MAN'S Glory. OR, A Wreath of Graces for the Head of YOUTH. › Application.
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.
The Reformed Churches in France made this an Article of their Discipline, Dancing is to be suppressed, and those who take the liberty to dance, after they have been several times admonished, shall be Excommunicated. The Reformed Churches of Holland have made it an Article of theirs, They that go to dances shall be Reproved; and if after divers Admonitions they persist, they are to be Excluded from Communion. And whole Armies of Protestant and Judicious Divines have spent their Arrows upon this Debauching Le•ity. Yea, a […] Papist, having the devotion of ⟨p. 73⟩a Dnexelius has not stuck to say, A dance is a Ring, whereof the Devil is the Centre, and all his Angels the Circumference. Yea, a civil Pagan, having the discretion of a Cicero has plainly said, It is only for a Drunkard, or a Madman to be a Dancer. I desire young people to come away from all promiscuous dancings, lest the same Devils which usually fetch away alive one of the Crew in the Dances of our Indians, do as terrible a thing to your Immortal souls. But herewithal,
The Reformed Churches in France made this an Article of their Discipline, Dancing is to be suppressed, and those who take the liberty to dance, after they have been several times admonished, shall be Excommunicated. The Reformed Churches of Holland have made it an Article of theirs, They that go to dances shall be Reproved; and if after divers Admonitions they persist, they are to be Excluded from Communion. And whole Armies of Protestant and Judicious Divines have spent their Arrows upon this Debauching Le•ity. Yea, a 〈…〉 Papist, having the devotion of ⟨p. 73⟩a Dnexelius has not stuck to say, A dance is a Ring, whereof the Devil is the Center, and all his Angels the Circumference. Yea, a civil Pagan, having the discretion of a Cicero has plainly said, It is only for a Drunkard, or a Madman to be a Dancer. I desire young people to come away from all promiscuous dancings, lest the same Devils which usually fetch away alive one of the Crew in the Dances of our Indians, do as terrible a thing to your Immortal souls. But herewithal,