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A11423	A second and third blast of retrait from plaies and theaters the one whereof was sounded by a reuerend byshop dead long since; the other by a worshipful and zealous gentleman now aliue: one showing the filthines of plaies in times past; the other the abhomination of theaters in the time present: both expresly prouing that that common-weale is nigh vnto the cursse of God, wherein either plaiers be made of, or theaters maintained. Set forth by Anglo-phile Eutheo.; De gubernatione Dei. Book 6. English	Salvian, of Marseilles, ca. 400-ca. 480.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633, attributed name.	1580 (1580)	STC 21677; ESTC S105761	39,276	142

it is a shame to saie it yet doubtles whosoeuer wil mark with what multitudes those idle places are replenished how emptie the Lordes sanctuarie is of his people may wel perceaue what deuotion we haue We maie wel saie wee are the seruants of the Lord but the slender seruice wee do him and the smal regard we haue of his commandements declares our want of loue towardes him For If yee loue me saith Christ keepe my commandements We maie wel be hirelings but we are none of his houshold Wherfore abuse not so the Sabboth daie my brethren leaue not the temple of the Lord sit not stil in the quagmire of your owne lustes but put to your strength to helpe your selues before your owne waight sinke you downe to hel Redeeme the time for the daies are euil Alas what folie is in you to purchase with a penic damnation to your selues why seeke yee after sinne as after a banket None delight in those spectacles but such as would be made spectacles Account not of their drosse their tresures are too base to be laied vp in the rich coafers of your minde Repentance is furthest from you when you are nearest such maie-games Al of you for the most part do leese the time or rather wilfulie cast the same awaie contemning that as nothing which is so pretious as your liues cannot redeeme I would to God you would bestowe the time you consume in those vanities in seeking after virtue glorie For to speake trulie whatsoeuer is not conuerted to the vse wherefore it was ordained maie be said to be lost For to this end was man borne and had the benefit of time giuen him that he might honor serue and loue his Creator thinke vpon his goodnes For whatsoeuer is done without this is doubtles cast awaie Oh how can yee then excuse your selues for the losse of time do ye imagine that your carelesse life shal neuer bee brought into question Thinke yee the wordes of S. Paule the Apostle are spoken in vaine when he saith VVe must al appeare before the iudgment seate of Christ that euerie man maie receiue the things which are done in his bodie according to that he hath done whether it be good or euil When that account shalbe taken I feare me your reckoning wilbe to seeke But you saie tush al is wel can the Lord see this wel folowe the thoughtes of your owne harts see what shal come vpon you yee shal find al your imaginations to be wicked and though you flatter your selues in your sinnes tempt the Lord in his mercie and pricke forward his slownes of wrath by your presumption yet he will strike in the end to your vtter cōfusion Be thou not wicked ouermuch neither be thou foolish wherefore shouldest thou perish not in thy time saith Ecclesiastes godlie And Salomon If thou hast bene foolish in lifting vp thy selfe and if thou hast thought wickedlie laie thine hande vpon thy mouth Againe Blessed is the man that feareth alwaie but he that hardeneth his harte shal fal into euil What shal I saie None but the wicked fauor iniquitie The despisers of GOD looke where they take anie pleasure and find sweetnes there they hold them-selues and feede their greedie humors it falleth out as Salomon saith that he who is throughlie an hungred thinkes the meate which he eateth to be sweete although it be as bitter as wormewood Those vnsauerie morsels of vnseemelie sentences passing out of the mouth of a ruffenlie plaier doth more content the hungrie humors of the rude multitude and carieth better rellish in their mouthes than the bread of the worde which is the foode of the soule They are alwaies eating neuer satisfied euer seeing and neuer contented continualie hearing neuer wearied they are greedie of wickednes and wil let no time nor spare for anie weather so great is their deuotion to make their pilgrimage to offer their penie to the Diuel It is the nature of the wicked to finde alwaie such sweetenes in their misdoings as they wil neuer giue ouer til they be ouerthrowen by Gods righteous iudgement or reclamed by the secret working of his holie spirit Looke vpon an whore-master if he be once chased with his owne lust the Diuel blindes him and makes him take such pleasure in his wickednes that al his delight is therein If a mā be giuen to drōkennes or to other wickednes he wil hardlie be reclamed or giue it ouer so great sweetenes doth he tast in those vnseemelie pleasures if so I maie saie Thus you maie see the despisers of God do finde sweetenes in al their misdoings O my deere brethren let not your affections carie you to wickednes it behooueth you to be verie warie and circumspect how you thrust your selues into publique assemblies of prophane plaies since there be so manie inticements vnto loosenes so manie meanes to traine you to vnthriftines there as wonder it is if you haunt them but your soules wilbe grieuouslie hurt Pleasure their capitaine is so politique an enimie that he knowes how to traine you into danger But when ye are once within his lap hard wil it be for you to escape because he can vse you so freendlie and so fitlie applie himselfe to your appetites that yee wil rather wish to be in bondage with him than at libertie without him So that yee are warelie to shun his ambushes and so to retire that Satan be not able to endamage you anie kind of waie And that you maie do it the better it is meete that yee be made priuie to his subtile pollicies It was trulie said of Chrysostome that none is hurt but of himselfe no man hath so dangerous a foe as that he caries about him The snake in our bosome which wee nurish with such care wil soonest annoie vs. Let vs throwe awaie our fleshlie minds and bridle our affections For if they maie haue the hed they wil neuer leaue running til they haue ouerthrowen vs and brought vs to a wretched state In the beginning cuerie disease is to be stopped and cured but if a sore run ouer-long it wil growe past the cure of the Physition The Magistrate is therefore to prouide in time a remedie to redresse the mischiefes that are like to ensue by this common plague They which gouerne the state are to trie and decerne each cause that they appeare not to deale vnaduisedlie They are to be diligent to finde out the truth of things and when a matter is knowen of them to be euil it is their part to reforme it otherwise by negligence they shal run into the displeasure of God The Magistrates hart must be as the hart of a Lion He is not to shrinke in the Lordes cause or to stand in feare to reforme abuses of the Common-weale because of some particular men of auctoritie He must haue both stoutnes and constancie to represse

openlie committed that I looked when God in iustice would haue presentlie in his wrath haue cōfounded the beholders The Theatre I found to be an appointed place of Bauderie mine owne eares haue heard honest women allured with abhominable speeches Sometime I haue seene two knaues at once importunate vpon one light huswife whereby much quarel hath growen to the disquieting of manie There seruants as it is manifestlie to be prooued haue consented to rob their maisters to supplie the want of their harlots there is the practising with married wiues to traine them from their husbands and places appointed for meeting and conference When I had taken a note of al these abuses sawe that the Theater was become a consultorie house of Satan I concluded with my selfe neuer to imploie my pen to so vile a purpose nor to be an instrument of gathering the wicked togither It maie seeme I am ouer lauish of speech and that which I haue publiqulie expressed ofothers by mine owne knowledge might haue bene dissembled But I haue learned that he who dissembles the euil which he knowes in other men is as giltie before God of the offence as the offenders the selues And the Lord hath expreslie commanded in Exodus that we should not folowe a multitude to do evil neither agree in a controuersie to decline after many and overthrowe the truth I cannot therefore but resist such wickedness least I might seeme to maintaine them For he that dissembles vngodlines is a traitor to God Since therefore that the cause is Gods I dare presse forth my selfe to be an Advocate against Satan unto the rooting out of sinne For I am fully resolued in Gods truth to build so strong and fure a fundation against these sellers setters forth of sinne as neither they nor their adherents shal euer be able to ouerthrowe And my trust is that the godile wil ionie with me to the suppressing of those which fight against his worde waging their battel on the Sabboth daie the more conuenientile to destroie the soules of the children of God The cause is generalie to be defended for that the contention of the Aduersaries is about religion and therefore none can be discharged for bare saieng they consent not to the wicked For it is the part of euerie true soldier of lesus Christ with al power to withstand resist such as offer wrong to the maiestie of GOD by hindering the service which we owe unto him We are to be enimies unto the death against those uphiolders of wickedness and neuer to giue ouer the battel in so holie iust a quarel We see the wicked are alwaies readie to maintaine euil causes in these daies the worst men shal find bearers and bolsterers and be supported by those who by iustice are to supress them or at least to reforme their abuses which are intolerable If the wicked lurke together to vphold their lewdenes how much more ought the faithful to ioine themselues together to plucke downe vanitie I knowe my selfe a worme of al other the weakest to medle in these cases yet such is my desire to ouerthrowe their wickednes that I dare inflamed with the holie zeale of Dauid in the quarel of God unprouided both of armor and weapon with one poore sling resist the strength of their hugest Champion and endure the brunt of his fierce assalts doubting not but to finde some that wil stande with me to ouerthrowe the enimies of GOD and to pul downe those flags of defiāce which Satan hath set vp against the preaching of the Gospel to the decaie of the Church Let vs delaie no time deere brethren their doings are abhominable in the sight and eares of God and condemned of the righteous if therefore sentence against their euil workes be not executed speedelie The hartes of the children of men as Ecclesiastes saith wilbe fullie set in them to do euil If there were nothing to moue you it were great cause to stir vp your godlie furie and zeale to discommend plaies vtterlie but their abuses stretching further into the Common-wealth are by sufferance growen so huge that it is hard dealing with them as against foes for they are become priuate freends They are therfore to be delt withal by degrees For it is verie hard to roote out that frō our hartes be it neuer so great an abuse wherof we haue conceaued a good opinion Let therefore the Magistrate but repel them from the libertie of plaieng on the Sabboth daie For that is abuse which is generalie found fault withal allowed of none but those who are altogether destitute of the feare of God and without conscience To plaie on the Sabboth is but a priuiledge of sufferance and might with ease be repelled were it throughlie folowed The warrant which Magistrates haue to forbid plaies is great and passed vnto them by such a Prince whose auctoritie is aboue al auctories of earthlie gouernors God hath giuen vs an expresse commandement that wee should not violate the Sabboth daie and prescribed an order how it should be sanctified namelie in holines by calling into minde the spiritual rest hearing the worde of GOD and cessing from worldlie busines Wherevpon Isaiah the Prophet showing how the sabboth should be obserued saith If thou turne away thy foote from the Sabboth from doing thy wil on mine holie daie cal the Sabboth a delite to consecrate it as glorious to the Lord and shalt honor him not doing thine owne waies nor seeking thine owne wil nor speaking a vaine worde then shalt thou delite in the Lord and I wil cause thee to mount vpon the hie places of the earth and feede thee with the heritage of Iaakob thy father for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Here we see how the Lord requireth that this daie should be obserued and what rest he looketh for at our hands But alas how do we followe the order which the Lord hath set downe Is not the Sabboth of al other daies the most abused which of vs on that daie is not carried whether his affection leades him vnto al dissolutenes of life How often do wee vse on that daie vnreuerend speeches which of vs hath his hart occupied in the feare of God who is not led awaie to the beholding of those spectacles the sight whereof can bring but confusion both to our bodies and soules Are not our eies there carried awaie with the pride of vanitie our eares abused with amorous that is lecherous filthie and abhominable speech Is not our tong which was giuen vs onelie to glorifie God withal is not our tong there imploied to the blaspheming of Gods holie Name or the commendation of that is wicked Are not our hartes through the pleasure of the flesh the delight of the eie and the fond motions of the mind withdrawn from the seruice of the Lord meditation of his goodnes So that albe