N00765:45
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.
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.
I will faithfully Translate a few passages out of it. The Evil Spirit, has invented and introduced into the World, BALLS, and DANCES, and other Divertissements, which the Reproved call Innocent, but St. Augustin called, Lugendas Latitius, The Sports which call for Sorrows.
I will faithfully Translate a few passages out of it. The Evil Spirit, has invented and introduced into the World, BALLS, and DANCES, and other Divertisements, which the Reproved call Innocent, but St. Augustin called, Lugendas Latitius, The Sports which call for Sorrows.
He proceeds to show, how the Sacred Scriptures, which command Seriousness, and Gravity, and Modesty, condemn Dances, and begs his Hearers to think on that word; Job. 21.11, 13. Their Children DANCE, and in a moment they go down to the Grave; (or as he renders it,) into Hell. Says he; There are some Sins thought Venial, that will End so.
He mentions and commends Chrysostom, who having heard, That some of his Hearers had been at a Ball, immediately he Preached a powerful Sermon against it; and among other things that man of God said, (& his words are quoted with Honour by this Papist;1) If I could Learn, who they were, that were present at these Follies, I would chase them out of the Church; I would not permit them to be present at our dreadful Mysteries; And he goes on to call them, The Pomps of the Devil.
- 1[The men of Rome, shall rise in Judgment with this Generation, and shall condemn it!]