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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