A cloud of witnesses

A Cloud of Witnesses; Darting out Light upon a CASE, too Unseasonably made Seasonable to be Discoursed on.

THE CASE before us, is not, Whether People of Quality may not Employ a Dancing-Master, with due Circumstances of Modesty to instruct their Children how to carry themselves handsomely, in Company? But, whether the Dancing Humour, as it now prevails, and especially in Balls, or in circumstances that Lead the Young People of both Sexes, unto great Liberties with one another, be not a Vanity forbidden by the Rules of Christianity? And, If it be so, Whether Virtuous and Prudent Parents, will not […] Second Thoughts be very cautious, how far […] their Children to the Temptations of […] a Vanity? If a Nonconformist Minister should speak to this CASE, it may be thought Answer enough, That it is HE. Wherefore that the Reader may have no pretence to be Angry at any One such Minister, in the World, we will only bring some other Authorities.

THE CASE before us, is not, Whether People of Quality may not Employ a Dancing-Master, with due Circumstances of Modesty to instruct their Children how to carry themselves handsomely, in Company? But, whether the Dancing Humour, as it now prevails, and especially in Balls, or in circumstances that Lead the Young People of both Sexes, unto great Liberties with one another, be not a Vanity forbidden by the Rules of Christianity? And, If it be so, Whether Vertuous and Prudent Parents, will not 〈…〉 Second Thoughts be very cautious, how far 〈…〉 their Children to the Temptations of 〈…〉 a Vanity? If a Nonconformist Minister should speak to this CASE, it may be thought Answer enough, That it is HE. Wherefore that the Reader may have no pretence to be Angry at any One such Minister, in the World, we will only bring some other Authorities.