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A76409	Chorotheologon or Two breife but usefull treatises, [part 2: the nature and accidents of mixt dancing] the one touching the office and quality of the ministry of the gospell. The other of the nature and accidents of mixt dancing. In this later, the questions which concern the lawfullnesse or expediency of mixed dancing are professedly handled and resolved. By Joseph Bentham. Sometimes rector of the church of Broughton in Northampton Shire, now pastour of Neather Winchingdon, in the county of Bucks.	Bentham, Joseph, 1594?-1671.	1657 (1657)	Wing B1908_pt2; Thomason E925_7; ESTC R207559	20,002	28

of their friends being merry at an invitation fell into dancing Calvin called them before him to the consistory except Corneus Perinus being interrogated they denied he puts them to their oathes about it they confessed their dancing and in the house of widow Balthasats he censures the Syndick is displaced the Elder turned out of office Perin and his wife clapt into prison the rest put to shame anno 1546. 4ly Calvin in Job 21 13. saith That mixt dancing of men and women together are nothing else then panderships and provocations to whoredome Fifthly A certain writer records the sad effects of bad dancing although not mixt mentioned in Scripture 1. Exod 32. 6. They rose up to play by which saith he is understood their dancing singing and leaping before the calfe as appeareth by the noise which was made described by Moses and Joshua before they came to the calf these who danced did run to their own ruine and slaughter 2. Matth. 14. Mar. 6. Herodias her dancing is much condemned 1. Because it was not for good and nothing tending to the glory of God or good of others 2. Because of its sad effects it doth for the most part corrupt the chastest and adds fewell to the fire of lust both in the dancers and Spectators few can depart from such exercises but more prone and ready to violate the Laws of continency 3. Because of the sad and deplorable end as in the midst of such laughter the heart is sad so the end of such mirth is mourning to themselves or to others 1. To others The wanton dancer could not be recompenced but with Johns death His head saith Chrysostome is the reward of the wanton dancer 2. To themselves this dancing Herodias being to passe a river which was frozen over it so pleased the Divine providence that the ice brake and swallowed up her whole body to the head and so that body which did dance so wantonly on earth did dance miserably in the waters and by the Justice of God she lost her own head being beheaded by the meeting of the ice that was rewarded with the head of the Baptist in which judgement we may read the sin so that as Aelian reports of the puffers that being deceived with the pipes and dancing of the fishers they are easily caught so the fisher of souls the devill draws many into his nets by this deceit this being the bait which hides his hook saith my author Sixthly Bishop Babington upon the seventh Commandement saith Dancing is in the number of vain pastimes an allurement unto uncleanesse as much experience hath too well proved The scriptures check it the Fathers mislike it Councills have condemned it and the proofes of Gods judgments upon it bid us beware he quotes Fathers and tells us of a sad judgment 1505. in Colbeck in Germany That certain light persons hopping and dancing in the Church yard of Saint Magnus being by the Minister admonished to cease and not ceasing did for along time not able to stay run round about and at last fell all down dead Seventhly Mr. Perkins upon the seventh Commandement amongst other things forbidden be reckons lascivious dancing of man and woman together and in his treatise of conscience chap. 3 speaking of recreations to be neglected hee instanceth in dancing commonly used in these dayes in which men and women young men and maids all mixed together dance to the sound of the instrument or voice in time and measure with many wanton gestures this exercise canot be numbr'd among things indifferent for experience sheweth that it had been usually either a fruit or a follower of great wickedness as idolatry fornication drunkennesse Hereupon one compareth it to a circle whose center was the Devill if we must give account of every idle word then also of every idle gesture and pace and what account can be given of these paces backward and forward of cap●ings jumps gamholls turnings with many other frisks of lightnesse and vanity more becoming Goats and apes of whom they are commonly used then men c. Eighthly Mr. Lake in his Christian pastours proofe of his parishoners faith pag. 260 saith Dancing is the bane of faith religion and good manners in all that so use it as either the high shoe in the barne or the counterfeit pump in the dancing School do the great uncleanesse whereof heaven and earth do loath and speak against for the scriptures not only divine but humane and those Ethnical as well as Ecclesiasticall have reproved and condemned it Calv. on Job 21. 11. saith this sprung not up first in our days being of such antiquity Satan seeking therby as by nothing fitter to keep men in fleshly delights to choak the spirituall comparing the madnesse of dancers to gadding of beasts as scared out of their wits and derides them for this which a far off a man would think that they cast themselves in aire as if they would skip out of themselves so great pains doth lust in the presence and company of a dancing trull make the country Springhal to bruise his body and defile his soul with what fathers Ecclesiasticall have not in their sermons made bitter invectives against it Ignat. Ambr. c. the exactness of skill in dancing tendeth either to pride or lechery or both the two great stains of a christian professed Theophylact when the younker thinks he hath a maid by the hand he closeth hand with the devil in the shape of the maid whom he makes his substitute dancing is a kind of madness then he calls the fidler the devils baudy factor the bellows of Satan stirring to blow up the coals of lust on each side yet the miserable wretch seeth not that as his eye cannot go undefiled in his own lust so besides his own sin he engageth himself as a band and abettor in all the sin that is through his instrument either wrought in heart presently or after upon that entrance concluded upon or committed between parties or even at the cart or plow side by his disciples thought upon or whistled as wee shal hear the feilds streets to resound of their dances but never a whit of Davids Psalms thus he Ninthly Mr Trap on Marke 6. 22. She danced with immodest gesticulations and tripping on the toe wherwith the old fornicator was so inflamed that he swore she should have any thing of him on Matth. 14. 6 he saith so as Robert Duke of Normandy passed through Falaise he beheld among a company of young maids dancing one Arlet a skinners daughter whose nimbleness in her dance so inamourd the Duke that hee took her for his concubine such no better commonly are the effects of mixt dancing which made Chrysost say where dancing is there the Devil is and another ancient calleth dancing a circle whose center is the devill blowing up the fire of concupiscence in the hearts of the actors and spectators Augustine saith that every caper in the dance is a leap