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John Bunyan's Son Yields to "Drunkenness, Card-playing, Stoolball," Maypole Dancing
| Salience | Peripheral |
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| Tags | FamousFamous |
| Location | EnglandEngland |
| City/State/Country: | [[{{{Country}}}]] |
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| Game | StoolballStoolball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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"Bunyan repeatedly emphasized that children should be taught about hell, and that they are accursed. 'Upon the Disobedient Child is written strictly from the parents' point of view. 'The rod of correction....is appointed by God for parents to use' Bunyan had written in Mr Badman, 'that thereby they might keep their children from hell.' But flogging in this case was not successful. 'Since this young Badman would not be ruled at home', his father put him out as an apprentice to a good man of his acquaintance.This familiar seventeenth-century practice did not work either. Bunyan's own eldest son, John, though apparently properly flogged in childhood, was by 1680 mixing with bad company (including another son of a member of Bunyan's church) and later took to 'drunkenness, card-playing, stoolball', and dancing round the maypole." |
| Sources | Christopher Hill, John Bunyan; A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People: John Bunyan and his Church (1989), page 270. Another source attributes Hill's source as Particia Bell, "John Bunyan in Bedfordshire," in The John Bunyan Lectures (Bedfordshire Educational Service, 1978), pp. 35-36. |
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| Comment | John Bunyan (1628-1688) was a Baptist preacher and author of The Pilgrim's Progress (1678 and 1684). Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | So . . . the quote was, perhaps, from a 1680 lecture by John Bunyan himslef? Edit with form to add a query |
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| Submitted by | Anita Broad |
| Submission Note | Email, November 9, 2016 |
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1680.3 John Bunyan's Son Yields to "Drunkenness, Card-playing, Stoolball," Maypole Dancing"
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