So that he that will not rejoyce and enjoy himself, making good use of such things as are lawfully permitted, non est temperatus, as he will, sed superstitiosus. There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his Soul enjoy good in his labour, Eccles. 2. 24.

And as one said of hauking and hunting, ut solatia in hac ægri orbis calamitate mortalibus tædiis deus objecit, I say of all honest recreations, God hath therefore indulged them to refresh, ease, solace and comfort us.

But we are some of us too stern, too rigid, too precise, too grossely superstitious, and whilst we make a conscience of every toy, with touch not, taste not, &c. as those Pythagorians of old, and some Indians now that will eat no flesh, or suffer any living creature to be killed, the Bannians about Guzzerat;

we tyrannize over our brothers soul, lose the right use of many good gifts; honest sports, games and pleasant recreations, punish our selves without a cause, lose our liberties, and sometimes our lives.

Anno 1270, at Magdeburge in Germany, a Jew fell into a Privy upon a Saturday, and without helpe could not possibly get out; he called to his fellows for succour, but they denied it, because it was their Sabbath, non licebat opus manuum exercere, the Bishop hearing of it, the next day forbade him to be pulled out, because it was our Sunday: In the mean time the wretch died before Monday.

We have myriads of examples in this kinde, amongst those rigid Sabbatarians, and therefore not without good cause, Intolerabilem perturbationem Seneca calls it, as well he might, an intolerable perturbation, that causeth such dire events, folly, madness, sickness, despair, death of body and soul, and hell it self.