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A cloud of witnesses
A cloud of witnesses; darting out light upon a case, too unseasonably made seasonable to be discoursed on.
Boston: printed by B. Green and J. Allen?, 1700
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
A Cloud of Witnesses; Darting out Light upon a CASE, too Unseasonab… › COUNCILS.
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.
It is well known, That the old Councils, Ordained no less a Censure, Than that of Deposition for a Clergy-Man, and that of Excommunication for other People, to bear a part in a Dance. Particularly, One assembled in Trullo. Can. 51. Yea, very many Councils, make it a Crime in Clergy-Men to be so much as the Spectators of a Dance.
We will descend unto late ones.
Many provincial Assemblies in Holland, have declared, That the Scourge of Ecclesiastical Discipline should be employed upon Dancers.
The National Synod of Dort, A. 1578. thus Express themselves.
Because Dances are for the most part attended with a levity, unbecoming Christians, and are an offence to the Godly; Especially when practised in a Time of Common Danger and Calamity: they that go to Dances shall be Reproved; and if after divers Admonitions they persist therein, they are to be excluded from communion.