The government & improvement of mirth according to the laws of Christianity. In three sermons. I. Of civil & natural II. Of carnal & vicious mirth...

"THE Reason of my Publishing the following Discourses, is because I apprehend the Subject to be of great Importance, and a Treatise on it wanting among us. For among things of common and daily Abuse, no one scarce has escap't with less express Censure, and Labours for the Correcting it, than abused Mirthas. It is always like to be in fashion in the World, and every single Person in every age of it is sometime or other making Solomon's Experiment, Eccl. 2.1. I said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with Mirth, therefore enjoy Pleasure, it Endangers the World while it flatters and seems to adorn it: As in the days that were before the Flood, they did eat, they drank, they Marryed, until the day that Noah entred into the Ark; and the Flood came and destroyed them all."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.