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SABBATH — Pastimes

Conversation of a Tea-table: why by the listening
to the chirping of birds or the murmuring of waters,
than to the melody of Instruments & of the human
voice. harrassing these with contradictions

We are told by Bishop Burnet, v. Burnet III.367 that when
the final abolition of the Popish superstitions was
in agitation, Queen Elizabeth was strongly inclined
to the retaining of Images in Churches — It was the judgment of That ingenious
Princess which the comparison of the
looking at pictures There is no great cause I suppose to fear, that men should fall on worshipping a Ball after they have been kicking it about, a Quoit, or a Longbow. behaviour of the people in Popish & Protestant
Churches justifies at this day, that the retaining
of those such embellishments would be a means of
drawing the people to frequent with more alacrity
those places of Devotion. The rigid Protestants
who were her advisers by representing the
There is not a more fertile course of moral corruption danger of furnishing leaving a pabulum to that temper
of superstition & Idolatry, which so many causes
concurred at that time of doing and cherishing among
the people, prevailed on her to depart from that
Idea.

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