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 have Strangers within their Gates; that is, Gueſts or Lodgers, to look to it that thoſe under their Roof do not prophane this Sacred Day: How are ſuch as keep Taverns and Publick Houſes particularly concern'd to keep their houſes clear of Company on this Day? Since it appears that we muſt anſwer to God for any Prophanation of the Lord's Day, diſcernable and preventable by us, that was committed by thoſe under Authority in our Houſes, wherein, as Governors, we ought to bear rule to the Glory of God.

And therefore, however many Maſters of Publick Houſes flatter themſelves with the Gains they make by following their Trades and humouring their cuſtomers on this reſerved Day of our Lord, they will find a very ſad reckoning at laſt before the Judge of all the Earth. When it will be made appear, that they have ſupplied many Perſons with Inſtruments, to fight againſt God, in that they ſuffer'd them, to ſit drinking and revelling in their Houſes, whilſt they ought to have been at the publick worſhip of God, or to have been employ'd in the pious government of their own Families, and whatever Friendſhip there now ſeems to be between ſuch as live in theſe pernicious Vices, and ſuch as adminiſter fewel to them, it may, at laſt, break out into an Eternal