94 Quellions andAnfweres 8.Comman). we exempted out of the number ofthem that are bounde to worker of loue,& deedes ofirtercie,fo thatwe needetodocnone of thefe, and yet fhall bee faued too ? Nay is it not. wonderfuH, anda thing that heauen and earth arc afhamed of, and euen all the creatures in both of them flande aflonifhed ac,to confider that a man fnould not either do the former dueties or himfèlfe haue eyther anie good apparrcll to weare , ante bookes to benefice his foule by , no not fo much as a Bible or a prayer booke , any meate at home for his wife and Children,anie wages to pay his Seruantes,or his other debtes , or a number moo futh neceffaties, and yet thinke his playing, yea his corny playing,lawfull, an not to bee ipoken agaynh ? Is it I fay po tble that ruer aChri- ilian man that thinkes hee bath Gods fpirite,fhould thus haue his confcience feared vp ? Truelie, for mine owne parte, I profeffe I haueftoode in my hearte amazed at ir, and 1 befeech the Lorde to driue away from vs fuch grolle fecuritie. For elk as we liue, we (hail knowe we haue dcceiued our fillies, and others , we were neuer any thing leffe,than Chriflians. Their dueties therefore due to others,fo many,and great, and thefe wanes ofneccffaries for our felues,irnptooue our playing for money.Laft- ly the iudgementes.ofmen,both graue,godly and wife who. liaise euer condemned it, ought in very right to make all men learn it. To thofe that I named before we may ad P°terJklartyr,who giueth not leaue to the l cke,andweak in their houfes to play, but with this condition, that they play for nomony. And we may reafon fromRagaJlins fait , that if he thought it cuillto glue mony to a iugler, or a ilage player, which to their paint , doé ferue our fenfcs : much worfe is the warrant to gore to a. garretter, that playethwith vs , liince hee lab outethno more tomake vs fport , than we doe to make him.Much haue manie men writte,' whence larger fpeech maybe fetched,and of mee for a tafle let this fuffice to bee faide. £uefl, lw.y, bat dotyou think: it limply vnlawfullto play for money? 11ní. Surely no. For wheneythcrfolittleispla ideasno way inableth met to any duety of my calling, or themoney (not much) is bellowed in force meeting , for the increafeof louc,or that which iswonne, is a reward appointed to that exerctfe ,then thinke 1, with others that is lawfull.And thus much of thefe three quefhons, whether we may play or no,at what games,andwhether for money. Quell. Nay ant thing more Iprayyou,and that ùthis: whether makeyou that like ac, count o f dicing,that yore doe of othergames think! it as roberable ? eilnf: Nofcircly doe I not, tofpeakeplaine, but iudge it inoft vnfeeming fora Chriflian man or woman, &a veryfhame to the place where it is vied. For of al games it bath neither wit in it, memory in it, nor art in it,(but falfeart) nor carrelle of any thing,except it be the elbow!, nor any thing to commend it. And yet ifchts were all, ir were not in fo euill eflate,howbeit,furely this ismot a little againfl it.But fee(which is farre more) even of all men by a generali confent as it were, this vile game as molt vile deteEled and detefled.Forifyou call your eyes to the heathen,they ruer hated it, if you looke at Chriflians they euer abhorred it, the fcripture bath forbidden it, the Councels haue condemned it,thelawes ofeuery good common wealth, & efpecially ofourownehue fcuerallypunifhed it, and what kinde of argument of millikíngis there not againfl it ?This haue they not dealt with other exercifes , & therefore furc- ly there is in it more fhame to the vfer, and more hurt to the place where it is vléd, than in the other. But let vs wcythe named heads in order. And firfl for die heathen, doe we not lee how Tiillielaycthitto the fhameofCat-dine and his companie,,that they were dicers ? and when her wouldc haue cuen (pit fire in Aothonies face , and galled him as greatly as he couide,this comes in for one great difhonour to him, and difhonefly in him,hee is ( faith ¡ullie) a dicer, and his houle a receptacle of fuch teem Suetoniusin Aaigufism Catra worthy man as we know in many refpecûes,and greatly renowmcd, hisl£e.Cap. yet got by his dicing a reproach neuer dying mien to be accounted a diffolute man. 7t. GobylonanEmbaffadourofthehacedemoniansbeeingfentto make aleague with the Corinthians,when hee came and law they vied dicing, counterfeited fomé other cattle and went home againe, gc would not make it ,anfweringwhenhe came home agáme that they were a vile people,& vnworchie to be eared for,they tvcre dicers. The Xing or
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