CHAP. IV. The great improvement of the Lords day, in the fifth and sixth Ages, make it not a Sabbath.
- 1. In what estate the Lords day stood in S. Austins time, Page 435
- 2. Stage plays and publick Shews prohibited on the Lords day, and the other Holy days, by Imperial Edicts, Page 437
- 3. The base and beastly nature of the Stage-plays at those times in use, Page 438
- 4. The barbarous bloody quality of the Specta∣cula, or Shews, at this time prohibited, ibid.
- 5. Neither all civil business, nor all kind of pleasure, restrained on the Lords day, by the Emperour Leo; as some give it out, The so much cited Canon of the Council of Mascon, proves no Lords day Sabbath, Page 440
- 6. The French and Spaniards in the sixth Age, begin to Judaize about the Lords day, and of re∣straint of Husbandry on that day, in that Age first thought of, Page 441
- 7. The so much cited Canon of the Council of Mascon proves no Lords day Sabbath, Page 442
- 8. Of publick honours done in these Ages, to the Lords day, by Prince and Prelate, Page 443
- 9. No Evening Service on the Lords day, till these present Ages, Page 444
- 10. Of publick Orders now Established, for the better regulating of the Lords Day-meetings, Page 445
- 11. All Business and Recreation not by Law prohi∣bited, are in themselves as lawful on the Lords day, as on any other. ibid.