Special Rule 1: What Is a Christian Recreation
Scripture referenced in this chapter 4
1 What is a Christian recreation.
A Christian recreation, is an exercise of some thing indifferent, both for the nature & use of it, only for the necessary refreshing of the body or mind, or both. So are allowed in the Scriptures the use of the Bow (2 Samuel 1:18), of Music (Nehemiah 7:67), of hunting (Canticles 2:7) but so as we do not stir up, or provoke Christ with it. Lastly, for the exercise of wit, honest riddles (Judges 14).
Rules for the better understanding of every part of the declaration of Christian exercise: And first what is indifferent both in nature and use.