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truth_n	good_a	lord_n	people_n	4,014	5	4.8063	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47209	A testimony against gaming, musick, dancing, singing, swearing and peoples calling upon God to damn them. As also against drinking to excess, whoring, lying, and cheating. Commended to the consciences of all people in the sight of God, but more especially to those, who keep publick houses.	Kelsall, John.	1696 (1696)	Wing K246C; ESTC R218590	6,717	1

A Testimony against Gaming Musick Dancing Singing Swearing and Peoples calling upon GOD to DAMN them As also against Drinking to Excess Whoring Lying and Cheating Commended to the Consciences of all People in the Sight of God but more especially to those who keep Publick Houses First SEE that you suffer none to play at any sort of Game in your Houses viz. Cards Dice Tables Shuffle-board and the like for in so doing you will displease the Lord and may cause him to bring a blast upon all your Undertakings But on the contrary Reprove and Admonish such in God's Fear For it never was the Practice of God's People in the Primitive Times to Game away their precious Time which the Lord gave them to work out their own Salvation in neither is it the Practice of them that are Christians in deed in this day though the Nominal Christians may plead for it Therefore you that know the Life of true Christianity bear your Testimonies faithfully agianst Gaming for it is as it were a piece of Witchcraft for when Mens Hearts and Minds are exercised in it they are even overcome by the same and so are serving the Enemy of their own Immortal Souls with all their strength and the Fear of the Lord is not before their Eye● for when the Hearts and Minds are exercised in their Games it is as it were their God and often times tends to Quarrelling Fighting and Blood-shed It is therefore good for all that are Christians in deed and in truth to bear your Testimonies against Gaming for this is certainly true that the Lord and his Truth is dishonoured by admitting People to Game in your Houses Therefore be careful in bringing Honour to God by bearing your Testimonies for him and his Truth against that that is displeasing unto the Lord and hurtful unto your own poor Souls Secondly See that you suffer none to Play upon any sort of Musick nor any to Dance Sing or Swear in your Houses but bear your Testimonies against such things both by reproving them in God's Fear and Love and in obstructing the same for they are all displeasing in the sight of the Lord and may cause his Judgments to come upon your Houses and Families Therefore to prevent the same from coming upon you live up to that Gift which the Lord hath given you that you may stand in your places and bear a Testimony for the Lord and his Truth in your Day Age and Generation then will the Lord Bless and Prosper you both inwardly and outwardly and in all that you undertake and all that do Rejoyce Let them Rejoyce in the Lord. Musick is a thing that stealeth the Hearts of them that play upon it or adhere unto it from the Lord and tends to raise up a light airy frothy wanton Mind for they that live in Pleasure are dead while they live and they that live wantonly kill the Just for when Mens Hearts and Minds are exercised by it they remember not the Lord that made them and all Mankind for a purpose of his own Glory but spend away their precious time in that which the Lord by his Prophet Amos bore Testimony against as you may read in the 6th Chapter of the Prophecy of that Prophet in which he pronounceth a Doe unto them that chaunt unto the Viol and invent unto themselves Instruments of Musick like unto David Do such Remember their Creator in the days of their Youth No they have rather forgotten their Maker which would be their Saviour if they would come to be saved by him from their perishing fading Vanities which God and his People are against Singing and Dancing are of the same Root and Ground with Gaming and Musick c. all which proceed from that Seed which the Enemy of Man and Womans Salvation hath sown in the Hearts of the Children of Disobedience which Enemy is the Devil who walks about seeking whom he may devour And such who let loose their Hearts Minds and Affections after those things pursuing and following with greediness after the same are making an Idol of them and do desire more after them than they do after the Knowledge of God whom to know is Life Eternal and so hereby God who alone ought to be sought after and bowed down unto is robbed of that which is his Right even the Praise the Honour and the Glory of his Name which ought to be given unto him from every reasonable Creature that he 〈…〉 Mankind to serve the Lord above all things even with all their Souls and all 〈…〉 and not run into fading Vanities which perish in the using and which bring Tribulation Anguish and Wrath upon all that are found in them for God will not be mocked such as every Man sows such they must reap from Divine Justice who renders unto every Man according unto his Deeds without respect of Persons Some that delight in Musick may object That David and others of the People of God did play upon Instruments of Musick Answer David and others who were faithful to God did not play upon Instruments of Musick to stir up raise and elevate a vain sinful unclean Mind in themselves or any others but their playing upon and use of Instruments of Musick being under the Shadowy Dispensation of the Law what they did herein they did it unto the Lord. The Priests under the Law had a command to sound Trumpets which was a sort of Musick and David and others made use of other Instruments as the Flute Harp and Cymbal and this they did in Honour and Praise to the Lord and not to stir up a vain wanton light airy fleshly and ungodly Mind as it may be seen in the Scriptures of Truth Again Some may plead for Dancing because David danced before the Ark. Answ This Dancing was in the time of the Law and was a token of his rejoycing because of the Ark of God which was brought back out of the Philistians Land who were Enemies to God and his People This Dancing was not like the Dancing of the vain wanton and prophane Persons of our Age nor yet like the Dancing of Herodi●'s 〈◊〉 who Danced before Kings 〈◊〉 who after she had Danced demanded the Head of the Man of God John the Baptist and had it being thereunto instructed by her malicious Mother As concerning Singing and Rejoycing true Singing and Rejoycing the Lord God did own under the Law which was Shadowy and stood in many Carnal Ordinances which were to continue until the time of Reformation as saith the Apostle Heb. 9.10 which time is the time of the Gospel which is come Again God did and doth own Singing in the Spirit under the dispensation of the Gospel but the Singers that God doth own under the Gospel-dispensation are those who are first taught by him to mourn for repent of and forsake their Sins such who are led by the Spirit of the Lord to Mourn for Repent of and forsake their Sins in