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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05288	A shorte treatise against stage-playes	Leighton, Alexander, 1568-1649.	1625 (1625)	STC 15431.5; ESTC S118511	9,971	28

on womans rayment for all that do so are an abomination to the Lord thy God For this change of apparell maketh the man effeminate and the woman manish as some can testifie if they would some haue confessed and the Heathen know Cyprianus lib. 2. epist 2. speaking of this change of apparell in Stage-playes sayth thus evirantur mares men loose their manhood c. Charondas made a law to the inhabitants of Thuria which is a citie in Greece described by Pausanias in Messenicis and by Strabo lib. 8. that if any man refused to goe to warres or being in the field cast downe his weapons and ranne away he should stand three dayes in the open market in womans apparell which argued effeminatenes in him as if formerly he had used it Diodor. lib. 12. Secondly they never come on the Stage in theire owne name but some in the name and person of a divell others of a foole others of a bawde others of a tyrant others of other men which beseemeth not a Christian neither proceedeth it of God nor is approved of God but is contrarie to Christian profession Tit. 2.12 Thirdly they sweare by the living God which is contrarie to the Law of God Exod. 20.7 or by heathen idols which is forbidden Exod. 23.13 or by both which is reproved Amos 8.14 Zephan 1.5 Fourthly they teach their hearers and beholders much sinne in the acting of their Playes as to sweare curse lye flatter cosen steale to play the bawde and the harlot with very many such other lewde lessons The fourth Reason Reason 4 8. THE fourth reason ariseth from the consideration of the hearers and beholders who being baptised into the name of Christ are brought into danger of gods wrath and their owne condemnation in as much as they are partakers of the sinnes of the Players and of the Playes in approving them And whatsoever brings men into these dangers must needs be evill And besides the approbation which maketh them guiltie they learne sinne for as sayth Cyprianus lib. 2. epist 2. adulterium discitur dum videtur they learne to commit adulterie when they heare and behold such immodest and unchaste words and gestures upon the stage And many goe honest thither which returne home dishonest Iob made a covenant with his eyes that he would not looke on a maide Iob 31.1 David desired God to turne away his eyes from regarding vanitie Psal 119.37 The fift Reason Reason 5 9. THE fift reason may be taken from consideration of these eight fruits or effects which follow Stage-playes First the Stage-players get their living by an ungodly unlawfull trade never approved by God when they shall stand at the barre of Gods judgement they shall be speachles and cast into utter darkenes where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth except they repent and forsake their wicked trade betimes whiles the Lord granteth space to repentance Secondly the hearers receaue much hurte by them as was noted in the fourth reason and if it be true which is reported whoredome is sometimes committed at that place and at that time Thirdly the better sort of men which are governours of families receaue domage when some of their families resorte to Stage-playes for sometimes their goods are stollen to mainteine Lewdnes sometimes their daughters or maide-servants are defiled or stollen away and maried without their governours consent or privitie Fourthly the word of God and the ministers thereof are now and then taxed and taunted Fiftly the Lord himselfe is there blaspheamed ordinarily Sixtly the poore in the church of Christ are hindred from some reliefe dist 86 c. 8 which otherwise they might haue for the prodigalitie lavished upon Stage-players restrayneth the liberalitie that might and ought to be bestowed upon the poore Seauenthly there is losse of pretious time which should be spent in Gods service by those that are hired to be diligent labourers in his vineyard and not be wickedly mispent in such sinfull sportes seeing everie one both young and olde must giue account to God of his labours and of his time spent in this life The Holy Ghost sayth Ephes 5.16 Redeeme the time for the dayes are evill but some men say Let us haue pastime that is any sinfull course whereby we may passe away mis-spend the short time which we haue in this life that the day of death judgment and condemnation may come speedily upon us before we repent and before we consecrate our selues wholly to God Peter sayth It is sufficient for us that we haue spent the time past of this life after the lustes of the Gentiles walking in wantonnes lustes drunkennes in gluttonie drinkings and abominable idolatries 1 Pet. 4.3 And if any be otherwise minded the Lord in his time will either convert or confound him Eightly whereas the life of a Christian effectually called should be spent continually in fighting against all kinde of sinne in crucifying the old man and in renewing the inner man dayly these Stage-playes quench the spirit and destroy the new man as also on the other part they foster cherish and mainteyne the old man as all those that haue the spirit of Christ know and feele But if any man haue not the spirit of Christ the same is not his Rom. 8.9 The sixth Reason 10. Reason 6 THE sixt reason may be taken from the opinion and judgment of all sortes and states of men by whom these Stage-playes haue been disalowed Orthodoxal Protestants First all orthodoxall Protestants of all ages and times which maintayned the generall doctrine of the Catholike church haue censured Stage-playes as unlawfull from age to age hitherto To reporte and repeate their severall judgements out of their owne writings or out of histories is more then I can performe it would make a greate volume it would be tedious to reade and perhaps not so necessarie Wherefore it seemeth rather convenient to call a greate number of them together out of all the places of their dwellings and as it were out of all the world that they all may be heard to speake altogether with one consent and voyce But because it would be a verie tedious and troublesome thing for so many so reverend and so old aged Fathers to travell so farre it is more convenient and reasonable to spare their labours so much as may be and call them together at three severall times and in three severall places of their habitations that is to call those of Asia to meete together in Asia those of Africa in Africa and those of Europe in Europe Asia In Asia about two and twentie of the most reverend Fathers of those times met together in Laodicea somewhat more then 300 yeres after Christ and holding a councill there decreed cap. 54. that none of the Cleargie should be present at Stage-playes And the Centuriators of Magdeburg haue inserted this whole Councill in their laborious and worthie historie Cent. 4. cap. 9. col 834. Afrike In Africa more then 400 years after