N00765:32
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.
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.
The Reforming Synod in Poland, prohibited the Dances too commonly practised; and pronounced them censurable.
The Discipline of the Reformed Churches in France, has this Article.
Dancing is to be suppressed; and those that take the Liberty or Custom to Dance, after they have been several times admonished, shall be Excommunicated, when they show themselves obstinate in their Rebellion. And the consistories are Exhorted well to put this Article into Execution,1 and to Read the same Publicly in the Name ⟨p. 5⟩of God, and in the Authority of the Synods: And the said Synods and Colloquies are Exhorted to take heed of, and warn those Consistories that therein do not their Duties, to Censure the offenders for it.