the true celebration of the feast of Christmas, is, to meditate (and as it were to ruminate in the secret cogitations of our minds) upon the incarnation and birth of Jesus Christ, God and man: not only at that time, but all the times and days of our life, and to show ourselves thankful to his blessed majesty for the same
in Christmas time there is nothing else used but cards, dice, tables, masking, mumming, bouling, & such like fooleries. And the reason is, for that they think they have a commission and prerogative that time, to do what they list and to follow what vanity they will. But do they think that they are privileged at that time to do evil?