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glory_n	battle_n	king_n	lift_v	3,025	5	10.8885	5	false

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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

endeavouring to reduce the golden age and of Pope Nicholas the 5. that he instituted secular Playes at Rome contrary to the Councell of Constans and that 560 persons were crushed to death and drowned with the fall of the Tiberine bridge who flocked to Rome to behold those Enterludes Hence Polydor Virgil Lodovicus Vives Ioannes Langhecrucius and Didacus de Tapia cry out against the popish Clergie for acting and representing to the people the passion of our Saviour the Histories of Iob Mary Magdalen Iohn the Baptist and other sacred Stories together with the lives and legions of their Saints and for erecting Theaters for this purpose in their Churches on which their Priests and Monkes together with common Enterlude-Players and other Laickes did personate these their Playes Which grosse prophanesse though thus declaimed against by many of their own Authors condemned by their Conncels is yet still in use among them as not onely Didacus de Tapia and others who much lament it but even daily experience the Iesuites practise together with Iohn Molanus Divinity-professor of Lovan witnesse who in his Historia SS Imaginum Picturarum Antwerpiae 1617. lib. 4. cap. 18. De Ludis qui speciem quandam Imaginum haben● in quibusdam anni solennitatibus p. 424 425 426 427. out of Conradus Bruno and Lindanus writes thus in justification of these their Enterludes Now even Stage-playes have a certaine shape of Images and oft times move the pious affections of Christians more than prayer it selfe And after this manner truly Stage playes and shewes are wont to be exhibited on certaine times of the yeare the certaine pictures of certaine Evangelicall histories being annexed to them Of which sort is this that on Palm-sunday children having brought in the picture of our Saviour sitting upon an Asse sing praise to the Lord cast bowes of trees on the ground and spread their garments on the way And that likewise upon Easter Eve when as the presbyter after midnight receiving the image of the crucifixe out of the sepulcher goeth round about the Church and beates the doores of it that are shut saying Lift up your gates yee princes and bee yee lifted up yee everlasting gates that the King of glory may come in and he who watcheth in the gates demanding Who is this King of glory the Presbyter answers againe The Lord strong and mighty in battaile the Lord of hoasts he is the King of glory Likewise that on the day of the resurrection of our Lord in the morning after morning prayers Angels in white garments sitting upon t●e sepulcher aske the women comming thither and weeping saying Whom seeke ye women in this tum●lt weeping he is not here whom ye seeke but goe ye quickly and tell his Disciples Come and see the place where the Lord lay And that on the same day the image of our Lord bearing an ensigne of Victorie is carried about in publike procession and placed upon the altar to be gazed upon by the people Likewise that of Ascention day in the sight of all the people the Image of the Lord is pulled up in the midst of the Church and shewed to be taken up into heaven In the meane time about the Image are little winged images of Angels carrying burning tapers in their hands and fluttering up and downe and a Pr●est singing I ascend unto my Father and your Father and the Clergy singing after him and unto my God and your God with this solemne hymne Now is a solemne c. and this Responsory Goe ye into the world c. And that upon White sunday the image of a dove is let downe from aboue in the midst of the Church and presently a fire falls downe together with it with some sound much like the noyse of guns the Priest singing Receive ye the holy Ghost c. and the Clergy rechanting There appeared cloven tongues to the Apostles c. By all which and other such like spectacles and those especially which represent the passion of our Lord nothing else is done but that the sacred histories may be represented by these exhibited Spectacles and Enterludes to those who by reason of their ignorance cannot reade them And these things hi●herto out of Conradus Bruno in his Booke of Images cap. 17. Thou hast the like defence of these shewes and Enterludes in William Lindane the reverend Bishop of R●remond in his Apologie to the Germans where among other things he saith For what other are these Spectacles and Playes than the living histories of Lay-men with which the humane affection is much more efficaciously moved than if they should reade the same in private or heare thē publikely read by others c. Thus he O the desperate madnesse the unparalleld profanes of these audacious Popish Priests Papists who dare turne the whole history of our Saviours life death Nativitie Passion Resurrection Ascention and the very gif● of the holy Ghost descending in cloven tongues into a meere prophane ridiculous Stage-play as even their owne impious Pope Pius the 2. most prophanely did● contrary to the forequoted resolutions of sundry Councels and Fathers who would have these things onely preached to the people not acted not represented in a shew or Stage-play No wonder then if such turne the sacred solemnity of our Saviours Incarnation into a Pagan Saturnal or Bacchanalian feast who thus transforme his humiliation his exaltation yea his whole worke of our redemption into a childish Play But let these Playerlike Priests and Friers who justifie this prophanesse which every Christian heart that hath any sparke of grace must needes abominate attend unto their learned Spanish Hermite Didacus de Tapia who reades this Lecture both to them and us That this verily is altogether intollerable that the life of Iob of St. Francis of Mary Magdalen how much more then of Christ himselfe should be acted on the Stage For since the very manner and custome of Play-houses is prophane it is lesse evill if it were tollerable that prophane things onely should be acted and that holy things be handled onely in a holy manner c. But now that a Theatre A PLACE SO FAMILIAR TO DIVELS AND SO ODIOVS VNTO GOD● pray marke it should be set up in the very middest of the body of the Church before the high Altar and the most holy Sacrament for Playes to be acted on it he onely can brooke it who by reason of his sins hath not yet knowne or felt HOVV CROSSE AND OPPOSITE THESE THINGS ARE TO THE HOLINES OF GOD. It is evident then by all these premises that our riotous ludicrous voluptuous Christmasses together with Stage-playes dancing Masques and such like Pagan sports had their originall from Pagan their revivall and continuance from Popish Rome who long since transmitted them over into England For if Polydor Virgil may be credited even in the 13. yeare of Henry