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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

deuils confessed that they knew Iesus the holy one Of God to be and of the same high God to be the sonne The deuiles said true héerin and some héerby might haue béen taught To knowe bothe God the Father and the sonne which hath vs bought The maid possessed with the spright of diuination Said Paule and other taught the way of mans saluation Act. 16.17 And that they were the seruants of the moste high God abooue And so they were this many might haue moou'd the trueth to looue Yet Christe the deuils to silence put and cast them out of man And would not suffer them to speak what they did knowe him than Paule cast the spright out of the maid and took it gréeuously That she though true it was indéed of them did testify The learned yéeld this reason why Christe and his Seruant Paule Cast out the deuil because he sought héerby no good at all But craftyly he went about by telling trueth to get Credit with men the better to insnare them in his net And this perswade them if he could that there agréement was Betwéen the deuils and liuing God 1. Cor. 10 which cannot come to passe ●or 6.14 ● And béeing once in credit he might all the euil he could Deuise performe men to destroy and neuer be controlde The Lord the mischéefs did preuent which after might ensue By Sathans sleights wherby in fine to men great profit grew For that they were deliuered from Sathans subtil wile Wherby vnder pretence of good he sought them to beguile The deuil the same is now as then his purpose is all one In minstrels singing godly songs he long about hath gon Therby such credit he hath got that now say what he wil Though handy wicked blasphemous the same he may say stil For wanton and lasciuiouse rimes are cloked vnder mirth And blasphemies go vncontrolde though they be Sathans breth And why forsooth because these men some Godly songs doo sing All must be good nothing refused that from the deuil dooth spring Thus Sathan by permission his purpose hath obtaind Because so long vncasten out in men he hath remaind These mischéefs therfore to redresse the course of them to stay Is sathan to cast out of men this is the redy way The Lord for this this meane hath left the preachers with the woord Must sharply Sathanists rebuke the Magistrates with swoord If these togither ioyned be the deuil for feare wil quake And out of men run to the Swine and haste to hellish lake The cause why men remain possest as yet with this foule sin Is men to execute their charge straine curtūe to begin The yunger post it to the olde the olde with custome drownd For vertue vice for mirth doo take oft Sathans deadly sound The minister that magistrates should first begin doo look The magistrates by ministers that Sathan first be strook But nether strike So Sathan hath his pleasure and his will His whistle doth deceiue the birds and them for euer kill But ministers and magistrates that such sins should remoue Ezech. 3.18 a●d 33.6 Heb. 13.17 And too neglect for these mens blood shall giue account abooue To God whom custom multitude Nor yet the face of man May mittigate but they for this shall feel his anger than If this could sinck into our heads and take root in our hart It would constrain vs wittingly not from Gods law to start But O● mens eares are dul to hear their harts more hard then stone Nothing can pearce their lothsome liues to cause them to bemone God make vs fleshly harts not woorks of flesh to put in vre And therin print his holy lawes for euer to indure If all things you doo bear in mimde which I rehearsed haue I think you wil to prooue my cause no farther reason craue Custome Thy proof is firm no more I craue but yet I meruail much That learned men in former times gainst minstrels brought no such Veritie When learned wights in time of olde blamde dauncers fond delight Héerof which are the cause against vain minstrells they did write By name therfore again to thee I wil not them rehearse This may suffise a godly minde therfore I end my verse Custome God graunt I Custome leue my course and may be calld to grace To yéeld to trueth and not cause men to liue in sinful race That I by length of time and long continuance of ill May not perswade the simple sort The same to practise stil But that I which in time began may yéeld to him that was Before all time is and shal be when all things els shall passe Veritie Me for that which is sayd and prooued let no man rashly spight Not gainst right vse but the abuse of things hath been my fight God graunt his spirit may quicken vs good frute our trées may bring We may not fall in firye lake where dooth no mercy spring God graunt our noble Quéen may reign long time with happy dayes To purge out clean all popish dregs to godlines great staies That godly magistrates may strike and good lawes straightly vse That deuilish sin they sharply scourge that men may vice refuse And that bothe Prince and magistrates and Subiects by Gods grace After this life may rest in heauen all Christians dwelling place FINIS

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