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A09809	The liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octauius Cæsar Augustus: collected out of good authors. Also the liues of nine excellent chieftaines of warre, taken out of Latine from Emylius Probus, by S.G. S. By whom also are added the liues of Plutarch and of Seneca: gathered together, disposed, and enriched as the others. And now translated into English by Sir Thomas North Knight	Nepos, Cornelius. Vitae excellentium imperatorum. English. Selections.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?	1602 (1602)	STC 20071; ESTC S111836	1,193,680	142

harboured or beheld them heretofore But likewise the patterns of Constantine Theodosius Leo Anthemius Iustinian Valentinian Valens Gratian Charles the Great Theodoricus Henry the 3. Emperour of that name Philip Augustus King of France our famous Queen Elizabeth her Counsel with our London Magistrates and Vniversities in her raigne who all suppressed inhibited Stage-playes Sword-playes and Actors as unsufferable mischiefes in any Christian State or City To these I might adde Lodovicus the Emperour who by his publike Edicts agreeing verbatim with the the 7. 8. forequoted Canons of Synodus Turon●nsis 3. p. 589 590. inhibited all Ministers all Clergy men from Stage-playes hunting hauking c. Together with Charles the 9. and Henry 3. of France who by their solemne Lawes and Edicts prohibited all Stage-playes all dancing on Lords-dayes or other solemne annuall festivals ●nder paine of imprison●ment and other penalties to be inflicted by the Magistrates and our owne most gracious Soveraigne Lord King CHARLES who together with the whole Court of Parliament in the first yeare of his Hignesse Raigne enacted this most pious Play-condemning Law intituled An Act for publishing of divers abuses committed on the Lords day called Sunday Forasmuch as there is nothing more acceptable to God than the true and sincere worship of him according to his holy will and that the holy keeping of the Lords day is a principall part of the true service of God which in very many places of this Realme hath beene and now is profaned and neglected by a disorderly sort of people in exercising and frequenting Beare-baiting Bull-baiting ENTERLVDES COMMON PLAYES and other unlawfull exercises and pastimes upon the Lords day And for that many quarrells bloodsheds and other great inconveniences have growne by the resort and concourse of people going out of their owne parishes to such disordered and unlawfull exercises and pastimes neglecting Devine service both in their owne parishes and elsewhere Be it enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty the Lords spirituall and temporall and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That from and after 40 dayes next after the end of this Session of Parliament assembled there shall be no meetings assemblies or concourse of people out of their owne parishes on the Lords day within this Realme of England or any the Dominions thereof for any sports or pastimes whatsoever nor any Bull-baiting Beare-baiting ENTERLVDES COMMON PLAYES or other unlawfull exercises or pastimes used by any person or persons within their owne parishes and that every person or persons offending in any the premises shall forfeit for every offence 3 shillings 4 pence the same to be employed and converted to the use of the poore of the Parish where such offences shall be committed And that any one Iustice of the peace of the County● or the chiefe Officer or Officers of any Citie Borough or Towne Corporate where such offence shall be comitted upon his or their view or confession of the partie or proofe of any one or more witnesse by oath which the said Iustice or chiefe Officer or Officers by vertue of this act shall hav● authority to minister shall finde any person offending in the premises the said Iustice or chiefe Officer or Officers shall give warrant under his or their hand and seale to the Constables or Church-wardens of the Parish or Parishes where such offence shall bee committed to levie the said penalty so to bee assessed by way of distresse and sale of the goods of every such offendor rendring to the said offendors the overplus of the monie raised of the said goods so to be solde And in default of such distresse that the party offending be se● publikely in the stockes by the space of three houres Which Act being to continue unto the end of the first Session of the next Parliamēt only was since recontinued by the Statute of 3. Caroli cap. 4. and so it remaineth still in force So that if it were as diligently executed as it was piously enacted it would suppresse many great abuses both within the letter and intent which is very large that are yet continuing among us to Gods dishonour and good Christians griefe in too many places of our Kingdome which our Iustices our inferiour Magistrates might soone reforme would they but set themselves seriously about it as some here and there have done If then all these Pagan these Christian Nations Republickes Emperors Princes Magistrates have thus abandoned censured suppressed Playes and Players from time to time as most intollerable pernicious evi●s in any State or City how can how dare we now to justify thē as harmelesse cōmendable or usefull recreations What are we wiser are we better than all these Pagan Sages than all these judicious Christian Worthies who have thus abandoned suppressed Playes and Actors out of a long experimentall knowledge of their many vitious lewd effects Or are we ashamed to be like our ancestors in judgement in opinion as wee are in tonsure complement habit and attire in this age of Novelties which likes of nothing that is old or common though such things commonly are the best of all that wee thus undervalue the resolutions of all former ages in this ca●e of Playes and Players preferring our owne wits and lusts before them● O let us ashamed now at last to countenance to pleade for that which the very best the wisest Heathen yea Christian Nations States and Magistrates of all sorts have thus branded and cast out as lewd as vitious as abominable in the very highest degree let us now submit our judgments our practise lusts and foolish fansies to their deliberate mature experimentall censures abominating condemning Playes and Players if not exiling them our Cities coasts and Countrey as all these have done arming our selves with peremptory resolutions against all future Stage-playes with this 52 Play-oppugning Syllogisme with which I shall terminate this Scene That which the ancient Lacedemonians Athenians Graecians Romans Germanes Massilienses Barbarians Gothes and Vandals● the whole Iewish Nation of old divers Christian Countries and Citties since together with many Pagan many Christian Republickes Magistrates Emperours Princes in severall ages and places have censured abandoned rejected suppressed as a most pernicious evill as a very seminary of all vice and wickednesse must certainly be sinfull execrable and altogether unlawfull unto Christians Witnesse Rom. 13.6 c. 13.1 to 8. 1 Pet. 2.13 14. But such is the case and condition of Stage-playes as the premises and Act. 6. Scene 5. c. most plentifully evidence Therefore they must certainly be sinfull execrable and altogether unlawfull unto Christians CHORVS YOV have seene now Courteous Readers 7 severall Squadrons of unanswerable Authorities encountering Stage-playes and Actors and giving them such an onset as I hope will put them with their Patrons quite to route so that they shall never be able to make head againe their forces

Play-houses the Temples Chappels Chaires Shops and School●s of Satan and Playes the Deuils Spectacles Lectures Sacrifices Recreations and the like If all these seuerall Witnesses then haue any credit as their testimony in our present case was neuer contradicted to my knowledge by any Christian or Pagan Author my Minor yea my Maior likewise neede no farther proofe But yet to satisfie vncredulous spirits in this point I shall here in the second place recite some two or three Histories of note and credit which prooue my assumption to the full Memorable to this purpose is that story in Tertullian who informes vs that a Christian woman in his time going to see a Stage-Play acted returned from it possessed with a Deuill which Deuill being interrogated by the Exorcists and Christians that came to dispossesse him how he durst assault a beleeuing Christian in such a presumptuous manner Returned them this answere with much boldnesse that he had done most iustly in it in meo enim eam inueni for I found her in my owne Temple negociated and imployed in my seruice Whence this acute and learned Author doeth as we also from it may conclude that Playes and Play-houses came originally from the Deuill himselfe because hee claimes both them and those who doe frequent them for his owne Adde wee to this the storie of one Valesius a wealthy Roman whose three children being desperately sicke of the Plague and afterwards recouered by washing them in hote water taken from the Altar of Proserpina which remedy was prescribed vnto him by an immediate voyce from his Deuill-Gods after his earnest prayer to them to translate their sickenesses on himselfe these infernall Spirits in recompence of this their cure appearing to those recouered Patients in a Dreame commanded them to celebrate Playes vnto them which Valesius did accordingly This story I shall couple with that of Titus Latinus as some or Tiberius Atti●ius as others stile him to whom the great Deuill-God Iupiter Capitolinus vnder the Consulship of Qu. Sulpitius Camerinus Sp. Largius Flauus in a great mortality both of men and beasts appeared in a dreame commanding him to informe the Senate that the cause of this fatalitie was their negligence in not prouiding him an expert and eminent Presultor in their last Playes that they celebrated to him and withall to enioyne them from him to celebrate these Playes afresh vnto him with greater care and cost and then this Plague should cease He supposing it to be a meere dreame and fancy of his owne neglects his arrant vpon which this great Master-Deuill appeares vnto him the second time threatning to punish him for his precedent neglect and charging him to di●patch his former message to the Senate Who neglecting it as before as being ashamed and with all affraide to relate it to the Senate left it should prooue nothing but his own● priuate fancy● some few dayes after his Sonne was taken away from him by sodaine death and a griping sickenesse seised vpon euery part and member of his body so that he could not so much as stirre one ioynt without intollerable paine and torture Where vpon by the aduice of some of his friends to whom he did impart these dreames hee was carried vp out of the Countrey in a litter into the Senate house where he deliuered his former message no sooner had he ended his relation but his sickenesse foorthwith leaues him and rising out of his bed he returnes vnto his house an healthie man The Senate wondring at it commanded these Playes to bee againe renewed with double the former pompe and cost and so the Pestilence ceased These two precedent parallell Histories the trueth of which the Fathers in the margent testifie doe insallibly demonstrate the Deuill hims●lfe to b●e the Authour of these Stage-Playes since he inioynes his Pagan worshippers to celebrate them to his honour and takes such pleasure and contentment in them To these I shal annexe one story more which though most Protestants may chance to slight as a fable yet all our Roman Catholiques who are much deuoted to these Theatricall Spectacles will ready subscribe vnto it as an vndoubted trueth and that as our rare Historian Mathew Paris at large relates it is briefely this Saint Dominicke Saint Iulian and one Thurcillus a plaine Husband-man being in the Church of Saint Maries about the middle of the world where there were many Soules of Saints departed in endlesse Blisse others● in Purgatory on a Saturnday euening neere night saw a Deuill towards the North part of the Church riding post towards Hell on a blacke horse with many damned Soules Saint Dominicke chargeth this Deuill to come presently to him who delaying to doe it out of ioy for the great bootie of Soules which he had gotten Saint Dominicke takes a rod and whips him well causing him to follow him to the North side of the Church where Soules were vsually freed where the Deuill among other things informes him that euery Lords day at night a time which some men consecrate and set apart for Stage-Playes and such infernall Pastimes whereas Saint Paul did spend it all in preaching the Deuils did vse to meete in Hell and there did recreate and exhilarate themselues with Stage-Playes Which Saint Dominicke and the others hearing they desired the Deuill that they might goe along with him to Hell to see their Enterludes who putting by Thurcillus per●itted Saint Dominicke and Saint Iulian to accompany him the Deuill brings them into a large but smokie house towards the North enuironed with three wals where they see an ample Theater with seates round about it where sundry Deuils sate in a row laughing and making themselues merry with the torments and sinnes of the Damned whom the Prince of the Deuils commanded to bee brought vpon the Stage and to Act their parts in order And first of all the Proud man is brought vpon the Theater next an idle Nonresident who did not feede his Flocke neither by Life nor Doctrine then a Souldier who had liued by Murther and Rapine then an Oppressing and Bribe-taking Lawyer who was once an Officer in the Kings Exchequer and did much oppresse the Subiects next a● Adulterer and an Adulteresse then a Sclanderer next a Theife and last of all a Sacrilegious person who had violated Sanctuaries all these comming in their seuerall garbes and postures did Act their proper parts and had seuerall Tragicall tortures inflicted on them by the Deuils Ministers who were likewise Spectators of-these Ludibrious Spectacles If then the Deuils recreate themselues thus in Hell with Stage-Playes as this Historian reports if they thus Proiect and Puruay for them they may be well reputed the primary Authors and Inuentors of them Lastly that which is vtterly displeasing vnto God and wholy fraught with Scurrility Prophannesse Sinne and Wickednesse that which was at first de●oted to the Deuils immediate worship and cannot any wayes bee deemed the

Enterludes should be banished upon Sabbath dayes and not long after many godly Cittizens and wel-disposed Gentlemen of London considering that Play-houses and Dicing-houses were traps for yong Gentlemen and others and perceiving the many inconveniences and great damage that would ensue upon the long suffring of the same not onely to particular persons but to the whole Citty and that it would also be a great disparagement unto the Governours and a dishonour to the government of this honourable Citty if they should any longer continue acquainted some pious Magistrates therewith desiring them to take some speedy course for the suppression of common Play-houses and Dicing-houses within the Citty of London and Liberties thereof Who thereupon made humble suite to Queene Elizabeth and her Privy Councell and obtained leave from her Maiesty to thrust the Players out of the Citty and to pull downe all Play-houses and Dicing-houses within their Liberties which accordingly was effected and the Play-houses in Gracious-street Bishops-gate-street that ni●h Pauls that on Ludgate-hill and the White-Friers were quite put downe and suppressed by the care of these religious Senators And surely writes my Author had all their Successors followed their worthy steps sinne would not at this day have beene so powerfull and raigning as it is This memorable Act of suppressing Play-houses by our London Magistrates by Authority from our vertuous Queene Elizabeth and her most Sage Privy Counsell as intolerable grievances and annoyances to our chiefe Christian Metropolis is an infallible argument that they all reputed them unsufferable corruptions in a Christian State Now as these pious Magistrates demolished Play-houses and thrust out all Players from within their Liberties which now have taken sanctuary in some priviledged places without their Iurisdiction so divers sage and pious Iustices of Peace and Magistrates in sundry Citties and Counties of our Realme have from time to time punished all wandring Stage-players as Rogues notwithstanding the Master of the Revels or other mens allowance who have no legall authority to license vagrant Players and in cases where they have had Commissions to act they have oft denyed them liberty so to doe within their Iurisdictions lest their lascivious prophane and filthy Playes should corrupt the people and draw them on to vice All which sufficiently demonstrates what our Magistrates thinke of Players and Stage-playes which our whole State and Kingdome have condemned as I shall now make evident by some Acts of Parliament In 4. of Henry the IV. cap. 27. I finde this Act of Parliament made Item to eschew many diseases and mischiefes which hath hapned before this time in the Land of Wales by many Wasters Rimours Minstrels and other Vacabonds It is ordained and stablished that no Master-rimour Minstrill nor Vacabond be in any wise sustained in the Land of Wales to make commo●thes nor gathering upon the people there Loe here an ancient Statute banishing all Players Rimours and Minstrels out of Wales as the Authors of many commotions disorders and mischiefes In 3. Henry 8. cap. 9. there was this Law enacted against Mummers For as much as lately within this Realme divers persons have disguised and apparelled themselves and covered their faces with Visours or other things in such manner as they should not be knowne and divers of them in a company together naming themselves Mummers have come to the dwelling place of divers men of honour and substantiall persons and so departed unknowne whereupon murthers felony rape and other great hurts and inconveniences have afore-time growne and hereafter be like to come by the colour thereof if the said disorder should continue not reformed Wherefore be it enacted by the King our Soveraigne Lord c. that if any persons hereafter disguise or apparell them with Visours or otherwise upon their faces and so disguised or apparelled as Mummers or persons unknowne by reason of their apparell associate or accompany them together or apart and attempt to enter into the house of any person or persons or assault or affrayes make upon any person or persons in the Kings high-way or any other place in forme afore disguised that then the said Mummers or disguised persons and every of them shall be arrested by any of the Kings leige people as suspects or Vacabonds and be committed to the Kings Gaole there to be imprisoned by the space of 3. monethes without bayle or mainprise and then to make fine to the King by the discretion of the Iustices by whom they shall be delivered out of prison And also it is ordained and enacted by the said Authority that if any person or persons sell or keepe any Visours or Visour in his house or in any other place within this Realme af●er the feast of Easter next comming and after this Act proclaimed that the said person that keepeth the said Visour or Visours shall forfeit to the King our Soveraigne Lord for every Visour 22. s. And further shall suffer imprisonment and make fine after the discretion of the Iustices afore whom he is thereof convicted by examination or by inquisition after the course of the Common-law Vpon the consideration of which Statute Polydor Virgil writing of Stage-playes and Mummers records That onely England of all other Countries did not as yet behold these personated beasts neither truely will she see them since among the English who in this thing are farre wiser then others there is this law that it shall be ca●itall for any person to put on a Visour or Players habit Which Statute as may be collected from Polydor who wrote about some 10. yeeres after it extends as well to Players as Mumme●s In 2. 3. of Philip and Mary cap. 9. intituled An Act to avoyd divers licenses of houses wherein unlawfull games be used upon the humble Petition of the Commons to the Queene in Parliament it was inacted That whereas by reason of sundry Licences heretofore granted to divers persons as well within the Citty of London and the Suburbs of the same as also in divers other places of the Realme for the having maintaining and keeping of Houses Gardens places for Bowling Tennise and Dicing a game prohibited as unlawfull by sundry other of our Statutes viz. By 12. Richard 2. c. 6.11 Henry 4. cap. 4. 17. Edward 4. cap. 3.11 Henry 7. cap. 2.19 Henry 7. cap. 12. 33. Henry 8. cap. 9. where Dice-play is stiled an unlawfull unprofitable ungracious and incommendable game whereby divers are utterly undone and impoverished of their goods and by meanes whereof divers and many murthers robberies and other hainous felonies were oftentimes committed in divers parts of the Realme See 17. Edw. 4. c. 3. and thereupon it is severely condemned under great mulcts and punishments the Dice-players being to forfeit ten pound a peece and to suffer two yeeres imprisonment and such as keepe any Dicing-houses to forfeit twenty pound a peece and to suffer 3. yeeres imprisonment c. for white and

mindes or manners be it but for a season as the marginall Scriptures witnesse therefore it cannot approve of these theatricall bestiall and diabolicall transfigurations of their bodies which are inconsistent with the rules of piety gravity honesty modesty civility right reason and expedience by which all Christians actions should be regulated Seventhly it informes us that even Achish King of Gath a meere Pagan Idolater when he saw David acting the madman before him and feining himselfe distracted scrabling on the doores of the gate and letting the spittle fall downe upon his beard said thus unto his servants Loe you see the man is mad wherefore then have yee brought him to mee Have I need of mad-men that yee have brought this fellow to play the mad-man in my presence shall this fellow come into my house If then this Heathen King was so impatient to see David act the Bedlam in his presence even in his ordinary apparell that he would not suffer him to stay within his Palace how much more impatient should all Christian Princes and Magistrates be of beholding Christians acting not onely Mad-mens but eve● Devils Idols Furies Monsters beasts and sencelesse creatures parts upon the Stage in such prodigious deformed habits and disguises as are unsuitable to their humanity their Christianity gravity sobriety bewraying nought else but the very vanity folly and bruitish frensie of the●r distempered mindes Certainely those who readily censure and detest such habits such representations in all other places must needs condemne them in the Play-house whose execrable infamous lewdnesse may happily make them more unlawfull never commendable or fit for Christians Lastly these theatricall habits vizards and disguises have beene evermore abominated condemned by the Church and Saints of God as namely by the Iewish Church and Nation who as they never admitted nor erected any Images of Pictures of God of Christ or Saints within their Temple as Hecataeus Abderita Cornelius Tacitus Dion Cassius Philo Iudaeus and Iosephus witnesse accounting it a hainous sinne contrary to the expresse words of the second Commandement to paint or make any Picture any Image of God because the invisible incorporiall God whom no man hath seene at any time nor can see betweene whom and any Image Picture or creature there is no similitude no proportion cannot be expressed by any visible shape or likenesse whatsoever his Image being onely spirituall and invisible like himselfe as not onely the Scripture but even Seneca and Tully informe us Vpon which grounds the Primitive Christians who had no Images no Pictures no Altars in their Churches as Arnobius Origen Minucius Felix and Lactantius testifie for which the Pagans blamed them as also Iustin Martyr Irenaeus Clemens Alexandrinus Tertullian Origen Min●●ius Felix Cyprian Arnobius Lactantius Gregory Nyssen Ambrose Hierom Augustine● Eusebius Epiphanius Cyrillus Alexandrinus Damascen and other Fathers together with Constantine the Great Constantinus Caballinus Nicephorus Stauratius Philippicus Anthemius Theodosius the second Leo Armenus Valence Theodosius the third Michael Balbus Theophilus Charles the Great with other Emperours the Councels of Eliberis Constantinople Toledo and Frankford with sundry Popish and Protestant Writers since our late renowned Soveraigne King Iames and our owne Homilies against the perill of Idolatry established by Act of Parliament and confirmed by our Articles and Canons as the undoubted Doctrine of our Church to which all our Clergie subscribe doe absolutely condemne as sinfull idolatrous and abominable the making of any Image or Picture of God the Father Son and holy Ghost or of the sacred Trinity the erecting of them of Crucifixes or such like Pictures in Churches which like the Emperor Adrians Temples built for Christ should be without all Images or Saints Pictures So they likewise cōdemned the very art of making Pictures and Images as the occasion of Idolatry together with all Stage-portraitures Images Vizards or representations of Heathen Idols c. as grosse Idolatry as Iosephus witnesseth The selfesame censure is passed against these theatricall Pictures Vizards Images and disguises by Philo Iudaeus De Decalogo lib. pag. 1037. By Tertul De Spectaculis lib. cap. 23. De Corona Militis lib. cap. 8.9 De Idololatria lib. By Cyprian Epist. lib. 2. Epist. 2. lib. 1. Epist. 10. De Spectac lib. By Arnobius Adversus Gentes lib. 7. By Lactantius De Vero Cultu lib. 6. cap. 20. By Augustine De Civit. Dei lib. 2. cap. 5. to 14. By the 6. Councell of Constantinople Can. 60.62 See here pag. 88.69 583 584 By the Synode of Lingres her● pag. 600. By the Councell of Basil here pag 601. By the Councell of Toledo here pag. 603.604 by sundry oother for●-quoted Councels and Synods here pag. 606.625 633 635 c. By our owne Statute of 3. Henry 8. cap. 9. against Mummers and Vizards here pag. 493 494. By Tostatus in Deut. 22. Quaest. 2. Tom. 2. pars 3. p. 119. B.C. By Polidor Virgil De Inventoribus Rerum lib. 5. c. 2. By Ioannis Langhecrucius De Vita Honestate Ecclesiasticorum lib. 2. cap. 22. pag. 321.322 323. By Doctor Rainolds in his Overthrow of Stage-playes and by most others who have written either against Stage-playes vaine fashions and apparell or face-painting Wherefore they are certainely unlawfull as I have formerly proved at large Act 3. Scene 3. Act 5. Scene 1.2 3 5 6 7. on which you may reflect I shall therefore close this point with that speech of Saint Bernard in his Apologie to William the Abbot in his passage against the overcostly building and adorning of Temples and the setting up of vaine Images and Pictures in Churches a thing much condemned by sundry Fathers Councels and Imperiall Christian Constitutions by all Reformed Churches and orthodox Protestant Writens and by the Statutes Iniunctions Homilies Canons ancient and moderne Bishops authorized Writers of the Church and State of England who teach that all Images and Pictures especially Crucifixes with the Images the Pictures of God the Father and the sacred Trinity which to make is grosse Idolatry and superstition ought wholy to be abolished and cast out of Churches in which some of late erect thē where thus he writes Caeterum in claustris I may ●ay in Spectaculis theatris corā legentibus fratribus quid facit illa ridicula monstruositas mira deformis formositas ac formosa deformitas quid ibi immundae simiae quid feri leones quid monstruosi Centauri quid semi-homines quid maculosae tigrides quid milites pugnantes quid venatores tubicinātes Videas sub uno capite multa corpora in uno corpore capita multa Cernitur hinc in quadrupede cauda serpentis illinc

by and consecrated unto Idols and Devil-gods who were courted with them in their Festivals See Devils Dancing and Festivals pag. 478.479 482. fol. 558.559 p. 731 732 735. Idolatry a grand sinne to which men are naturally prone p. 27.58 59 80 81 82 83. the mother of Stage-playes p. 28. to 40.58 59. f. 522.558 559. pag. 546.547 The acting of an Idols part or making his representatiō Idolatry p. 89.90 865 866 891 892. The ve●y reliques and shadowes of it ●o be avoyded p. 27.58 59 80 81 652 891 892. occasioned by Stage-playes and Play-poets p. 80.81.84 fol. 550.551 55● p. 650.651 652. Iesuits act Christs passion c. in stead of preaching it p. 116.117 765 766 767 999. Gods Iudgement upon them for a prophane Play f. 558. Some of them have condemned Stage-playes pag. 996.997 c. Iewes condemned and rejected Stage-playes and Idols shapes and vizards pag. 466.552 to 556.714 718 723 894 981. had no Images in their Temples and condemned the ve●y art of Imagery p. 894. to 902. keept their Sabboth from Evening to Evening p. 639.642 Ignatius the Martyr condemned Dancing on the Lords Day p. 222.231 m. Ignatius Loyola prohibited Terence to be read in Schooles p. 917. Images and Pictures of God the Father Sonne and holy Ghost unlawfull to be made or set up in Churches pag. 286.894 to 904. See Hooper Images in Churches condemned by Fathers Councels Emperours Protestant Churches and Writers and by our owne English Statutes Articles Injunctions Homilies Canons ancient Bishops and Writers Ibidem See Bishop Ie●els Reply to M. Harding Artic 14. p. 496. to 517. Rodericke Mors his complaint to the Parliament in King Henry the 8. dayes cap. 19 24● D. Iohn Ponet BB. of Winchester his Apologie or Answer to Martyn 1555. c●p 6.7 pag. 74.84 85. Archb shop Vshers An●wer to the Iesuits Challenge pag. 495. to 514. Edit ult a short Description of Antichrist 1555. pag. 26. Demolished at Zuricke and Basil and here in England by Henry the 8. Edward the 6. and Queene Elizabeth p. 903. m. Images condemned by the Persians Syrians Scythians and Lybians of old Origen Cont. Celsum lib. 7. fol. 96. none suffred in the Temples and Synagogues of the Iewes Turkes Sarazens Mores Moschovites or barbarous Heathen Nations of Asia Africa and Europe now Haddon Cont. Osorium lib. 3. f. 254. condemned by Ma●omet in his Alcoran Edit Lat. Bibliandri 1550. p. 19.105 126 144 152. shall Christians shall Protestants suffer applaud erect them when as these condemne them See Thomas Waldensis Tom. 3. Tit. 19. De Religiosorum domibus cap. 150. to 162. Imitation of Pagans and their customes unlawfull p. 18. to 23.730 to 734. See Pagans Impudency a dangerous sinne occasioned by Stage-playes p. 441.512 to 516. Infamous to act Playes See Acting Players p. 412.429 841. to 860. Intention of Play-haunters p. 943. to 947. Inventions of Pagans how farre lawfull and unlawfull p. 16. to 42. Iosephus his censure of Stage-playes and Theaters p 466.467 553 554 c. of Images p. 894.895 Isiodo● Hispa●e●sis his censure of Dice-play● Epist. Dedic 1. of Stage-playes and Theaters p. 349. f. 524.525 pag. 562.583 757 758. m. of New-yeeres gifts p. 757.758 m. of reading prophane Writers p. 78.79 915 916. Isiodor Pelufiota his censure of Playes and Players p 477.795 of reciting human Authors in Sermons pag. 937 938. Isocrates his censure of Playes and Players p. 121.450 703. Iren●eus his censure of Players Playes p. 158. m. 669. Iudgements of God upon Play-poets Players Play-haunters● f. 550.552 to 565. Iulian the Apostate his Edi●t against Ministers resort to Playes or Ale-houses p. 461.665 Iulius Messalla his expence on Playes p. 315.322 Iuo Carnotensis his censure of Playes Players acting in womens apparell c. 665.684 846 886 906. Iunius Mauricus his censure of Playes p. 458. Iustinian his Edicts against Dicing Players Sword-playes Stage-playes which hee stiles the Devils pompes p. 469.562 563 656. to 663. his law for divorcing of Play-haunting wives p. 391.661 662. Iustin Martyr his censure of Images pag. 896. of lascivious Musicke p. 275. Iustin the Historian his censure of Playes and Dancing p. 709.710 Iuvenal his censure of Players Playes Play-haunters and Dancers pag. 249. 250 319 370 452 843 852. m. 859. 860. K Kalends their observation especially of the first of Ianuary prohibited p. 19. to 23.197 198 429 430 580 581 583 755 756 780 752. Kings most honoured when God is best served by their subjects p. 644. have suppressed Playes and Dicing and exiled Players p 455. to 472.656 to 665.703 to 713.725 870. infamous for them to act or frequent Playes or favour Players pag. 250.451 428 429 459 to 47● f. 557.558 p. 707. to 711.734 to 744.848 to 858.897 A good King and bad Councellors worse then an ill King and good Councellers p 153. what makes Kings evill f. 547. Their life ought to bee exemplary p. 734.735 741. Kissing in Dances and Playes dangerous p. 166.243 386. Knights prohibited to act to dance or come upon the Stage p 459.860 861 862. L Laberius his censure of his Play-acting p. 860.861 Lacedemonians prohibited Stage-playes and lascivious Musicke p. 121.122 288 455 713 921 839. L●ctantius his censure of Images p. 896.897 898● m. of acting in womens apparell p. ●88 of Stage-playes and Actors p. 169.180 334 335 336 473.670 Ioan. Langhe●rucius his censure of Health-drinking Stage playes acting of Academicall Enterludes and acting in womens apparell● p. 596.597 m. 695. 864 865 866. Lasciviousnesse condemned a necessary concomitant and effect of Playes and Play-acting p. 161 to 178.332 to 446. Bishop Latymer his censure of Dice-play Epist. Dedic 1. of dancing and prophaning Lords-dayes f. 535. of Images p. 902. accused of sedition pag. 8●5 Laughter prophane profuse excessive censured p. 290. to 298.123 403 404. Christ never laughed 294.403 404. this life no time of laughter but of ●eares p. 293.294 404. See Chrysost. Hom. 12. in Collos. 4. an excellent discourse to this purpose occasioned by Playes p. 175.290 to 304.403 404. Laurell Christians prohibited to dresse their houses with it p. 21.581 756 m. 770.771 772. See Tertul. de Corona militis lib. c. 11.12 Laymen enjoyned by Councels Fathers and God himselfe to read the Scriptures diligently Epist. Dedicat. ● pag. 585.924 to 932. are spirituall Priests● and ought to be as holy as the Clergie p. 410.647 648. Leo the Emperour his Edict for the sanctifying of the Lords Day and suppression of Stage-playes p. 469.470 Lewis the 9. of France his Edict against Players Play-houses and Dice-houses p. 870. Leucippus his effeminacy in haire and apparell censured p. 883.885 Livie his censure of Stage-playes p. 449.450 f. 560. p. 705. Lodovicus the Emperor his Edict against Clergie-mens resort to Playes c. p. 715. Lodovicus Arch-bishop of Magdeburge his death f. 557. Lodovicus Vives his censure of Players Playes Play-bookes Dancing and Popish Enterludes pag. 114.115 134 226. fol. 554. pag. 691.916 London Magistrates suppressed Playes Play-houses

licentia vindicabit Maium●m faedum atque indecorum spectaculū denegamus Co●ex Theodosii l. 15. Tit. 6. Lex 2. See Calvini Lexicon ●uridicum Iacobus Spielegius Pandulphus Proteus H●eronimus Verrutius Lexicon Iuris Tit. Maiuma Suidas Mai●●mas Spondanus An. 399. sect 5. g See 1 Car. c. 1. h Malitia semper contra virtutem insanit Chrysost. Hom. 23. in Gen. Tom. 1. Col. 142. A. i See Mr. Boltons Discourse of true Happinesse p. 192 to 197. accordingly an excellent place to this purpose well worth the reading and all Antipuritans most serious consideration k So were the Saints and servants of God reputed in former times See 1 Cor. 1.18 21 23 25 27. c. 2.14 c. 3.18 c. 4.10 2 Cor. 11.16 17 19 23. Lactantius de Iustitia l. 5. c. 16. Timor Domini simplicitas reputatur ne dicam fatuitas Virum circumspectum et amicum propriae conscientiae calumniantur hypocritā Ber●ard De Consideratione l. 4. c. 2. Col. 885. C. l So were the Saints of olde accounted 1 Sam. 21.13 14 15. 1 Kings 9.11 Hosea 9.7 Isay 59.15 Ier. 29.26 Acts 26.24 25. Mar. 3 21. Iohn 10.10 1 Cor. 14 23. 2 Cor. 5 13. m Psal. 85.8 n Deut. 11.22 c. 10.20 Iosh. 22.5 c. 23.8 * Acts 26.18 1 Pet. 2.9 Col. 1.13 p Vt quisque nomine Christiani I may now say Puritani emendatur offendit Tertul. Apologia c. 2 3. * Vnum nomen est persecutionis sed non una est causa certaminis Leo De Qu● dr Sermo 9. f. 89 q See Tertullian de Pallio lib. Mr. Boltons Discourse of true Happinesse p. 190. to 192. And my Perpetuity Epistle 3. r De Gubern Dei l. 4. p. 110 111. And ad Ecclesiam Catholicam lib. 3. pag. 408. hee writes thus At vero nunc diversissime et impiissime nullis omnino a suis minus relinquitur qu● quibus ob Dei reverentiam plus debetur nullos pietas minus respicit quam quos praecipue religio commendat Denique si qui a parentibus filii offeruntur Deo omnibus filiis postponuntur oblati indigni iudicantur haereditate qui digni fuerint consecratione ac per hoc una tantum re parentibus viles fiunt quia caeperint Deo esse preciosi s Multi quod dolendu● est pro●ectibus uruntur alienis et qui se virtutibus vacuos despici noverunt arm●ntur in ●orum odium quorum non sequuntur exemplum Leo De Quadragesima Sermo 10. f. 91. t In bono proposito constitutis inimicitiae dissimilium di abolo instigante non desunt et facile in odia prorumpunt quorum improbi mores detestabiliores fiunt comparationerectorum Iniquitas cum iustitia non habet pacem temperantiam odit ebrietas falsitati nulla est cum veritate concordia non a●at superbia mansuetudinem pe●ulantia verecundiam avaritia largitatem et tam pertinaces habet diversitas is●a conflictus ut etiam si exterius conquiescat ipsa tamen piorum cordium penetralia inquietare non desinat ut verum sit quod voluerunt in Christo pie vivere persecutionē patientur c. Leo De Quadr. Ser. 9. f. 89. x Gal. 5.17 2 Cor. 6.15 16. y Gen. 3.15 z Gal. 4.29 1 Io● 3.12 13. a Ioh. 15.19 20. b 2 Cor. 6.14 15 16. c Prov. 29.27 d Psal. 38.19 20. e 1 Pet. 4.3 4. f 1 Ioh. 3.12 13. g Wild. 2.15 16. c. h Iohn 7.7 See my Perpetuity Epistle 3. Malignorum spirituum adversus sanctos insidiae non quiescunt et sive occulto dolo sive aperto praelio in omnibus fidelibus propositum bonae voluntatis infestant Inimicum autem illis est omne quod rectum omne quod castum Leo de Passione Dom●ni Serm● 19. f. 140. i Maledictione autem et amatitudine replerios valde mul●orum est Quis enim ita emendati cris est quem non maledicenti consue●udo sollicitet non dicat adversus eos qui maledicto digni sunt sed etiam adversus eos quos Dominus non maledixit id est iustos et innocentes viros Origen lib. 3. in Epist. ad Rom. c. 3. Tom. 3. fol. 154. C. Vid. Ibid. k In my Perpetuity Epist. 3. Healths Sicknesse p. 79. to 89. l Mat. 10.16 to 36. c. 24.9 Ioh. 15.19 20. c. 16.2 33. c. 17.14 m Mat. 5.11 12. Luk. 6.22 23. * Maioris contumeliae res est falsis quenquam notare et insignite crimimbus quam vera ingerere atque oblectare delicta Quod enim sese dici et quod esse te senties morsum habet minorem testimonio tacitae recognitionis infractum Illud vero ac●rbissime vulnerat quod innoxios et quod decus nominis er aestimationis infamat Arnobius adversus Gentes l. 4. p. 147. n Iohn 16.33 o Iohn 16.2 p Omnes dixit excepit nullū Quis enim exceptus potest esse cum ipse Dominus persecutionum tentamenta toleraverit Ambr. Enar. in Psal. 118. Octon 20. Tom. 2. p. 501. G. See Ambrose Chrysost. Theodoret Theophylact Remigius Beda Anselme Primasius Haymo HRabanus Maurus and all other Fathers and Expositors on this text q Acts 14.22 1 Thess. 3.4 r 1 Iohn 3.12 13. s De Gubernatione Dei l. 1. p. 22. * Isay 8.18 u Zech. 3.8 See Psal. 102.6 Ier. 12.9 Psal. 71.7 x Dan. 5.3 to 12. y See my Perpetuity Epistle 3. z Adversus Gnosticos lib. p. 430 431. a See my Perpetuity Epistle 3. at large b 1 Cor. 4.9 10. c See Iustin Martyr Apologia 2. pro Christianis Tertulliani Apologia Lactantius De Iustitia l. 5. c. 1 5 9. d In my Perpetuity Epist. 3● e Epist. l. 10. Epist. 97. f Stromatum l. 4. f. 104. F. g Apologia adversus Gentes c. 2 3. * Nam et hoc quoque genus invenitur qui meliores obtrectare malint quam imi●a●i et quorum sim●li●udinem de●perent eorum affectant simultatem s●●licet u●i qui suo nomine obscuri sunt alieno innotescant Ap●l●iu● Floridorum l. 1. p. ●05 h Oratio 21. p. 412. i Who are oft trad●ced on the St●ge See Sir Thomas Overburie his Cha●acter of an excellent Actor● and here Act. 3. Scene ● accordingl● k ●narratio in P●al 90. Tom. 8 pars 2. p 145 146. See ●nar in Psal. 128. p. 750 751. l Enarratio in Psal. 30. Tom. 8 pars 2. p. 209 210. See Ibid. p. 190. to 208. accor●ing●y ●e Civit. Dei l. 1. c. 1 2. m Iustin M●rtyr Apol●gia 1 ● A●axagoras pro Christianis Legat●o C●●rian Epist. l. 2. Epist. 2. Donato Basil. Epist 80. ●ustathio Medico Lactantius de Iustitia l 5. c. 1 9. Leo de Qu●dragesima Sermo 9. Athanasius Ep ad Solitariam vitam agentes See Eusebius Socrates Scholasticus Theodoret Sozomen Cassiodorus Nicephorus Callistus The English and French Booke of Martyrs the Centuries and Baronius passim accordingly o Opus imperfectū in Matth. Hom. 24. Tom. 2. Col. 772. B.