all the Dresses that can vitiate the
Imagination, and fasten upon the Memory?

XII. Can Parents, or any other Persons who have the Conduct of Youth,
and have any serious Concern for the Souls of their Children, or of
those that are committed to their Care, satisfie their Consciences,
without Restraining them from going to a place of such Impiety and
Infection; where they would be in the way to unlearn the best
Instructions of their Parents and Governours; where Pride and Falshood,
Malice and Revenge, Injustice and Immodesty, Contempt of Marriage, and
false Notions of Honour, are recommended; where Men are taught to call
in question the first Principles of their Religion, and are led to a
contempt of Sacred things?

XIII. Can sincere and judicious Christians think that the Players
exposing (as they pretend to do) Formality, Humour, and Pedantry, is an
Equivalent for their insulting sacred things, and their promoting to so
high a degree the Prophaneness and Debauchery of the Nation?

XIV. Can modest and prudent Christians think, that the Opinion of the
General Councils, Primitive Fathers, and so many wise and good Men in
the several Ages of the Church, who have condemned the going to Plays as
unlawful, and as a renouncing the Baptismal Engagements, doth not
deserve great regard?

XV. Can sincerely religious Persons hear of the most horrid, licentious
Treatment of sacred things as is in our Plays, and this not among
_Mahometans_ and _Infidels_, not at _Rome_ and _Venice_, but in a
Protestant Countrey, without a Fear that the Judgments of God will fall
upon us?

XVI. Can less be expected from good Christians, who are sensible of the
intolerable Disorders of the Play-Houses, and the Mischiefs that are
brought upon Mankind by them, than that they would use all proper
Methods for the Discouraging and Restraining their Relations and Friends
from going to them, as they have any Concern for the Honour of God, the
Good of Mankind, and the Welfare of their own Immortal Souls; that so by
Persons, who have any virtuous Principles, keeping from a Place which
they will never be able to frequent with Safety to themselves, under any
partial Regulation; the _Players_, the unhappy, the miserable _Players_,
may be necessitated to quit their Profession, and take upon them some
honest and useful Employment (wherein good Men ought to encourage and
assist them) and thereby the execrable Impieties of the _Play-Houses_,
and the ruinous con