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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57291	The stage condemn'd, and the encouragement given to the immoralities and profaneness of the theatre, by the English schools, universities and pulpits, censur'd King Charles I Sundays mask and declaration for sports and pastimes on the Sabbath, largely related and animadverted upon : the arguments of all the authors that have writ in defence of the stage against Mr. Collier, consider'd, and the sense of the fathers, councils, antient philosophers and poets, and of the Greek and Roman States, and of the first Christian Emperours concerning drama, faithfully deliver'd : together with the censure of the English state and of the several antient and modern divines of the Church of England upon the stage, and remarks on diverse late plays : as also on those presented by the two universities to King Charles I.	Ridpath, George, d. 1726.	1698 (1698)	Wing R1468; ESTC R17141	128,520	226

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FINIS Introduction WE have had lately a Curious and Learned Survey of the Immorality and Profaness of the Stage but tho' that Author hath done excellently well there may still be some Gleanings left for another Mr. Collier strikes directly at the Miscarriages of the Stage because they were most obvious and nearest to View but this ought not supersede the Endeavours of others nor to put a stop to their Inquiry into the Root of the Mischief If the Foundation be sapp'd the Superstructures must ●umble of course and it signifies little to patch the Roof or to tell us that it Rains in at the Sky-Lights when an Inundation comes in at Doors and Windows There 's none can be fit to write for the Stage that hath not first been at School and if we be instructed there in Plays and Romances it s but natural we should think our selves good Proficients and that we have in a great measure answered the End of our Education when we can oblige the World with those of our own Composure If the Amorous Passages of Ovid Terence Plautus c. be thought commendable Patterns fit to be put into the hands of Youth and by them imbib'd as proper Nourishment why should not the Harvest answer the Seed-time or why should the Scholar be blam'd to Vi● with his Masters Copy or when time and opportunity serves to sett up for a Master himself CAP. I. The Stage Encouraged by the Clergy IF our Shepherds have no better Morals than to feed their Lambs with the Milk of Goats why should they not expect that their Flocks in time should come to smell P●nk and where 's the Justice to bait and worry them when they do so If the Pulpits be so grosly negligent as not to tell us with Tertullian that Stage-Plays are the Chief of those Pomps that we abjure at Baptism or if they will needs Canonize one as a Martyr and Saint who by Royal Authority introduc'd the Use of Masks and Plays into his Court and Dominions on Sundays and never testified his Repentance for it to the World why should not they who write and frequent Plays think they are in the Path Road to Heaven as well as he and why may not they who distinguish themselves from others by such like performances hope some time or other to bear him company in the Calendar If the Head and Fathers of the Church did prosecute Mr. Prin for his Histriomastrix and condemn those for Schismaticks who would not Comply with Laud's Book of Sports and Pastimes on Sundays whereof Masks and Opera's at Court led the Van why should not the Writing and Haunting of Plays be reckon'd genuine Marks of a true Son of the Church and the contrary the Badge of one that is no true Church-man as a certain Clergy-man thought fit to express it in relation to K. William because of his not frequenting the Play-house Let the Clergy if they seriously design a Reform in this particular strike St. Ch s out of their Calender or declare their opposition to St. Chrysostom Tertullian and many others that might be named who thought the writing and frequenting of Plays to be damnable without Repentance and much more the commanding and patron●●ing them It cannot be denied but Mr. Collier has writ ingeniously and has taken a great deal of pains to hew and lop off the Branches and considering how much the Play-house was favoured in the Reign of Charles I. by some of the highest Dignity in the Church we have more reason to wonder that he hath said so much than that he hath said any thing too little because that part of the Sense of Antiquity which he hath repeated to us in this Matter does obliquely condemn that Prince whom so many Ecclesiasticks of great Note have always accounted a Martyr Besides his writing against Plays at present and some of the principal Authors of them is not like to be accounted an extraordinary piece