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William Perkins

Case of Conscience

Cock-Fighting, Bear-Baiting, Sports

[1592] William Perkins, "Of Cock-Fights and such like Sports," in Case of Conscience, the Greatest That Ever Was; How a Man may Knowe Whether He Be the Child of God or No, Whereunto is Added, a Briefe Discourse, taken out of Hier. Zanchium (London, 1592) [Biblographic Information: Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica; Or a General Indext to British and Foreign Literature, "Perkins Or Perkinsius, William," 747].

[1660] Edmund Ellis, The Opinion of Mr. Perkins, and Mr. Bolton, and Others, Concerning the Sport of Cock-Fighting, Published Formerly in their Works, and Now Set Forth to Shew, That It Is Not Recreation Meet for Christians, Though so Commonly Used by Those Who Own that Name, in The Harleian Miscellany: and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts,…Interspersed with Historical, Political and Critical Annotations edited by William Oldyns (London, 1810; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks) 122-127.

Of Cock-Fights, and such like Sports.

"The baiting of the bear, and cock-fights, are no meet recreations. The baiting of the bull hath its use, and therefore it is commanded by civil authority, and so have not these; And the antipathy, and cruelty, which one beast sheweth to another, its the fruit of our rebellion against God, and should rather move us to mourn, than to rejoice." These are the words of the most learned and godly Mr. Perkins, in that famous treatise of the Cases of Conscience, printed in quarto, A.D.—32 , p. 346