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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06390	A dialogue between custom and veritie concerning the vse and abuse of dauncing and minstrelsie	Lovell, Thomas.	1581 (1581)	STC 16860; ESTC S109641	21,954	68

A DIALOGVE between Custom and Veritie concerning the vse and abuse of Dauncing and Minstrelsie Rom. 13.12.13.14 The night is past and the daie is at hand let vs therfore cast away the workes of Darkenes and let vs put on the armour of light so that we walke honestly as in the day not in gluttony and drunkennes neither in chambering and wantonnes nor in strife and enuyng but put ye on the Lord Iesus Christe and take no thought for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it Imprinted at London at the long Shop adioyning vnto Saint Mildreds Church in the Pultrie by Iohn Allde To the godly and faithful Ministers of Christe and Prechers of the Gospel Maister Robert Crovvley and Maister Thomas Brasbridge grace and peace from God the Father through Christe Iesus our Lord be multiplied THe benefits which God hath mercyfully powred vpon vs moste vile wretched sinners are multitude innumerable in value inestimable so that the slender capacitie of our weake wits is not able throughly to comprehend them Much lesse the féeble voyce of our stambring tongs woorthyly to declare them Among which manyfolde and rich graces this is to be reconed of gretest price that he hath blessed vs with the comfortable wrood and glad tidings of our eternall saluatiō fréely purchased vnto vs by his welbelooued sonne our onely saueour Christe Iesus and hath by the princely authoritie of his woorthy Minister our moste gracioꝰ Quéen brought in again established and these thrée and twentie yéeres continued the same God graunt that long it may abide florish and fructifie amōg vs for all which his vnspekable blessings he requireth nothing of vs but that we cheerfully take the cup of saluation and giue harty thanks vnto our loouing Lord and yeeld dutiful obedience vnto the diuine precepts of our gracious God But alas who truely performeth these Is he a grateful receiuer which cōtemp●uously reiecteth such a bounteful gift Dooth he performe loyall obedience which stubburnly rebelleth against his Lords lawful commaundement Is not the comfortable message of our happy reconciliation vnto God onely by Christe Iesꝰ despitefully contēned of many Doo not the moste parte rebelliously in déed resist the perfect law of the Lord And how then can we be laid dutifully to render vnto our heauenly father that which in respect of his great bountefulnes he may rightly chalenge As truely as the Lord liueth vnthankful ingratitude is abbomination vnto the Lord and stubburn rebellion as the sinne of withcraft Why then doo we not dayly and hourely euen euery moment tremble and quake for feare lest his heuy vengeance terrible wrath fall vpon vs disobedient children for these and the like sinnes which wée haue vngodly committed But the holy Scriptur●e conteine a large volume and the whole law cōsisteth of many precepts so that perfectly to draw foorth and in liuely colours to expresse the manifolds and gréeuous offences which we moste wickedly haue cōmitted against the testimonies of the highest dooth require a longer discourse then I purpose to prefix or set before this short treatise Yet that we may partely beholde the euil fauored deformities filthy staines that abound euen among them that account them selues moste handsome and beawtiful let vs look as it were by a glimpse into the cleere mirrour of the p●●re woord of the Lord. The almightie Iehoua spake vnto his seruāt Moyses and gaue him this commaundement to deliuer vnto the childrē of Israel Kéep ye my Saboths Exo. 31 14. for it is a signe between me and you in your generations that ye may knowe that I the Lord doo sanctifie you Ye shall therfore kéepe the Saboth for it is holy vnto you He that defileth it shall dye the death c. Héer are two forcible reasons added to the cōmaundement to mooue the people of Israell diligently to obserue the Saboth First for that it is a sure signe of their sanctification that they being defiled by the lothsome flithynes of sinne are sanctified by the Lord and made plesant in his sight Secondaryly for that they which pollute the holy Saboth shall suerly dye These ought to be sufficiēt to cause men to kéep holy the Saboth day either for profit in respect of all worldly things incomparable or for death not withstanding all mans deuises ineuitable But wherin consisteth the right vse of the Saboth and what is it truely to keep holy the Saboth day If we wil as we ought vse and obserue it according to that exquisit order which the Lord hath prescribed in his Sacred woord we must not doo the thing that pleaseth our selues we must not speak our owne woords 56. 2. we must not doo after our owne imagination neither seek our owne wil 58. 13. we must keep our selues that we doo no euil in the Lords holy day But it is not inough to eschew euil but we must also doo good Therfore in halowing the Lords day of rest we must holde greatly of the things that pleaseth the Lord and kéep his couenaunt Esay 56 we must stick to the Lord to serue him to looue his name to be his seruāts to fulfil his couenāt to giue him the honor Now if this straight line be laid to our crooked liues and this iust rule to our vnruly behaueour oh how far out of square shall we be found For when doo we more practise our vain pleasures Whē doo we more after our owne wicked immagination When doo we more séek our owne froward wil When doo we more speak our owne filthy corrupt woords When doo we exercise more euil then on the Lords day As for other dayes euery man in his vocation if he haue any naturall care to maintain him self and his familie wil apply his worldly businesse he wil not let a char But the holy Saboth is so vnholyly spent as if it were consecrated to the abhominable idole of fleshly pleasure rather then to the true seruice of the almighty God for if there be any match made for the triall of any mastrie or méeting for meriment as they terme it either betwéen town town or neighbour neighbour or if there be any kéeping ales either for the maintenance of the Church or for some that are fallen into decay When must these be tried or doon but vpon the Saboth day If any go about with a pewter or rather pilfering game because by offering a shewe of profit it priuily robbeth men when must it be played but vpon the Sabaoth day And who more to be blamed for this then such Iustices vnder whose licence they doo it is this the way for Magistrates to showe them selues men fearing God to giue men licences wheby they may rebelliously break Gods cōmaundements them selues ●xod 18.21 Chro. 19.7 and be wicked instruments to cause others to doo the same Let such knowe that the Lord shall iustly lay to their charge that their hands haue béen chéef in this trespasse Moreouer wheras many Minstrels

liue idlye moste parte of the wéek when they should woork doo not they by wicked abuse of their instruments prouoke the people to vnhallow the Lords holy day by deuelish dauncing the Nurce of much naughtines and doo not to to many of all degrees with tooth and naile endeuor to vpholde this Idole of wanton plesure which prouoketh Gods indignation The youth doo seruice vnto it with their bodyes they commit filthy fornication with it being before maried vnto their husband and head Christe Iesus in Baptisme The elder sort offer sacrifice vnto this Idole sōe wheat some mault some Barley ome other victualls some money and by these meanes shew them selues shamelesse Bandes to maintaine their Children and seruants in this spirituall whoordome béeing by dutie bound to bring them vp as Chaste Virgins and vndefiled members of Christe The auncients or Officers some of them are present at this Idole seruice and by their presence it may be also by their woords promising them aid and by their déeds giuing them some maintenaunce incourage these Idolaters to continew and go forwarde in their abhominable seruice being appointed of God to whom they shall yéeld and account for the punishmēt of them that doo euil Rom. 13. 1. ●e●t 2. Num. 27. Psal 119 Psal 5.5 for the suppressing of vice which should haue the spirit and pray with Dauid O turne away mine eyes lest they beholde vanitie and quicken thou me in thy way In such places where GOD by good Magistrates hath quite thrown down this Idole ●sal 119. ●sal 5. ver 5 sharply reprooued the Idolaters and iustly banished thamnuz I mean vain minstrilles The women mourn lament for him so that of all sorts to to many conspire to maintain this wanton and fleshly Idolatrie ●zech 8.14 The like might be said of diners other abuses which reign amōg vs wherby the Lords Saboth is greatly prophaned but for breuitie sake omit them Now as we defile the holy Saboth by dooing that which we ought not to doo so we cōmit the same offence by leauing vndoon the which we should doo For we should holde greatly of the thing that pleaseth the Lord. but few regarde it few professe it few name it We should fulfil his Couenaunt and kéep it but few doo it few know it few read it we should stick to the Lord to serue him but who performeth his seruice who acknowledgeth it nay who fléeeth not from it who yeeldeth not him self as a bondslaue to obay sinne We should looue his name but is it not of the greater parte contemned spited and hated in the faithful Christians We should giue him the honour but how shamefully doo we dishonor him by drawing sinne togither as it were with Cart ropes Farre of then are wee from rightly obseruing the Saboth day And shall not the consideration of our great disobedience in transgressing this diuine law for euery one of vs to say with Dauid Psal 119. Psal 20.6 Psal 7.5 I saw the transgressors was gréeued because they kept not thy woord feare is come vpon me for the wicked that forsake thy law For if that man of God the holy Prophet was so touched with gréef and striken with such a feare for the wickednes of other how much more ought we to be greeued at the very hart and to be astonied for fear of Gods iust iudgemens which hang ouer our heads and are redy to fall vpon vs but that his endlesse mercy as yet striueth with his iustice for our owne manifolde and greeuous transgressions Ezech. 20.21 euen of this precept For the Lord hath threatned to poure out his wrathful indignation vpon such as polute his Saboth Iere. 17 27. If we wil not be obedient vnto him to hallowe it then shall he set fire vppon the gates of our Cities and townes and it shall burn vp our houses and no man shall be able to quench it These and far more gréeuous threats vttered by him that is able to bring them to passe should be fearful and terrible vnto our giltie consciences and should perforce driue vs to remooue as much as in vs lyeth all occasions which the subtle enemies of our saluation doo offer to break this commaundement of the Lord Neither is it sufficient to haue regarde of our selues onely but we are bound by the rule of Christian charitie to seek one an others welth the which hath been as a spurre to prick me forwarde to attempt this meanes to reclaime some if it maybe from the shamefull abusing of the Saboth which is doon by heathnish dauncing and vain Minstrelsie But it may peraduenture be thought an vnaduised enterprise and néedlesse woork for me to attempt the publishing of any thing in print touching this argument seeing other before haue bothe taken in hand and prosecuted the same Vnaduised because I may seem to forget that they haue diligently labored heerin Needles for that the matter is alredy throughly handled as in other lāguages so especially in our moth●r tung for the vse and benefit of the vulgar sorte To this I answer that I am neither forgetful of other mens painful trauail heerin neither yet dooth their diligēt discoursing heerof cause me to leaue o● this mine attempt as a thing néedlesse Nay it did rather incourage me stirre me forwarde to take this little paines that I haue bestowed héerin for the infectious contagion of sinne in generall and this speciall kinde of poysonable plague of the deuilish abuse of daunsing and disordered minstrelsie hath infected as it were the whole Realme and run in a manner ouer all the body almoste frō top to toe in times past but there hath béen a moste souereign medicine prescribed composed of diuers manners of hearbs of great vertue gathered out of sundry gardens I mean many good and graue s●ntences collected out of the woord of God and writings of learned men bothe Christian and heathnish beeing vnited and knit togither of such singuler operation that it purgeth the infected and preserueth the whole and serueth for all complexions if they wil receiue it This hath been with great diligence labour by diuers godly Preachers in their Sermons and some in writing applyed vnto the infected and infinit numbers the spirit of God woorking inwardly togither with the outward applicatiō héerof haue béen clene purged from this noysome disease many wel amended though it stick so deep in the bones of many that it wil hardly out of the flesh I cōsidering with my self the great commoditie the redoundeth to the Church of God generaly and as it were sensibly féeling the helth that hath been restored to many by these meanes was incouraged to minister this medisine according to that small skil wherwith God in mercy hath indued me as occation was offered in teachīg But seeing many stomackes so quesie that they could not brooke and digest it many also so full with surfeting by excesse of worldly plesures and fleshly delights that