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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	deny_v	lust_n	ungodliness_n	2,308	5	11.2023	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08344	Spiritus est vicarius Christi in terra. A treatise wherein dicing, dauncing, vaine playes or enterluds with other idle pastimes [et]c. commonly vsed on the Sabboth day, are reproued by the authoritie of the word of God and auntient writers. Made dialoguewise by Iohn Northbrooke minister and preacher of the word of God; Treatise wherein dicing, dauncing, vaine plaies or enterludes with other idle pastimes, etc. commonly used on the Sabboth day, are reprooved, by the authoritie of the worde of God and auncient writers	Northbrooke, John.	1577 (1577)	STC 18670; ESTC S113358	126,370	164

ytching eares and lothe that heauenly Manna as appeareth by their flowe and negligent comming vnto Sermons and running so fast and so many continually vnto Playes c Ouid was banished by Augustus into Pontus as it is thought for making the booke of the Craft of Loue. Hiero Syracusanus did punishe Epicharmus the Poet bicause he rehearsed certaine wanton verses in the presence of his wife For he woulde not haue onely in his house chaste bodies but also chaste cares Why then shoulde not Christians abolishe and punishe suche filthie Players of Enterludes whose mouthes are full of filthinesse and wickednesse Saint Paule willed the Ephesians that fornication and all vncleannesse shoulde not once be named among them Neyther filthinesse neyther foolishe talking neyther feasting whiche are things not comely but rather giuing of thankes He sheweth the reason to the Corinthians why they shoulde so abstayne Bicause euill speakings corrupt good maners sayth he Again Come out from among them and let vs seperate our selues and touche no vncleane thing and then the Lorde will receyue vs and abide with vs. For sayth he the grace of God that bringeth saluation vnto all men hath appeared and teacheth vs that we should deny vngodlynesse and wordly lusts and that we should liue soberly righteously and godlily in this present worlde looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glorie of the mightie God and of our sauiour Iesus Christ. YOVTH Nowe I perceyue it is not good nor godly haunting of such places AGE It is truth For as the Preacher sayth It is better to go vnto the house of mourning than go to the house of feasting c. For the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning but the heart of fooles is in the house of myrth And therefore it is better sayth Salomon to heare the rebuke of a wise man than that a man shoulde heare the songs of fooles YOVTH Truly I see many of great countenance both men and women resort thither AGE The more is the pittie and greater is their shame and payne if they repent not and leaue it off Many can tarie at a vayne Playe two or three houres when as they will not abyde scarce one houre at a Sermon They will tunne to euerye Playe but scarce will come to a preached Sermon so muche and so great is our follye to delyte in vanitie and leaue veritie to seeke for the meate that shall perishe and passe not for the foode that they shall liue by for euer These people sayeth Iob haue their houses peaceable without feare and the rod of God is not vpon them they sende forth their children like sheepe and their sonnes daunce They take the Tabret and Harpe and reioyce in the sounde of Instruments They spende their dayes in welth sodenly they go down to the graue They say vnto God depart from vs. For we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes Who is the almightie that we shoulde serue him and what profite shoulde wee haue if we shoulde pray to him Therefore I speake alas with griefe and sorowe of heart against those people that are so fleshlye ledde to see what rewarde there is giuen to suche Crocodiles whiche deuoure the pure chastitie bothe of single and maried persons men and women when as in their Playes you shall learne all things that appertayne to crafte mischiefe deceytes and filthinesse c. If you will learne howe to bee false and deceyue your husbandes or husbandes their wyues howe to playe the harlottes to obtayne ones loue howe to rauishe howe to beguyle howe to betraye to flatter lye sweare forsweare howe to allure to whoredome howe to murther howe to poyson howe to disobey and rebell agaynst Princes to consume treasures prodigally to mooue to lusts to ransacke and spoyle cities and townes to bee ydle to blaspheme to sing filthie songs of loue to speake filthily to be prowde howe to mocke scoffe and deryde any nation lyke vnto Genesius Aralatensis c. shall not you learne then at suche Enterludes howe to practise them as Palingenius sayth Index est animi sermo morumy ● fidelis Haud dubiè testis The tongue hath oftentimes witnesse brought Of that which heart within hath thought And maners hidde in secret place It doth disclose and oft disgrace Therefore great eeason it is that women especiallye shoulde absent themselues from such Playes What was the cause why Dina was rauished was it not hir curiositie the Mayden woulde go forth and vnderstande the manners of other folkes Curiositie then no doubt did hurt hir and will alwayes hurt women For if it were hurtfull vnto the familie of Iacob being so great a Patriarch for a Mayden to wander abroade how much more daungerous is it for other families which are not so holye nor acceptable vnto God But the nature of women is muche infected with this vice And therefore Saint Paule admonisheth women to loue their husbands to bring vp their children and to be byders and tariers at home And when he entreateth of wanton and yong widdowes They wander abroade sayeth he and runne from house to house and at the last go after Satan Giue the water no passage no not a little sayth Syrach neyther giue a wanton woman libertie to go out abroade If thy daughter be not shamefast holde hir straitly least she abuse hir selfe thorow ouermuch libertie As men cannot gather grapes of thornes and figges of thistles neyther can anye man or woman gather anye vertue or honestie in haunting places where Enterludes are As one vertue bringeth in another so one vice nourisheth another Pryde ingendreth enuie and ydlenesse is an entraunce into lust Idlenesse is the mystresse of wanton appetites and postresse of Lusts gate For no māentreth into the pallace of Lust vnlesse he be first let in by Idlenesse and more Idlenesse can there not bet than where such Playes and Enterludes are Therfore as Christ sayth The light of the bodie is the eye If then the eye be single thy whole bodie shall be light But if thine eye bee wicked then all thy body shall be darke c. As if he would saye It thine affections and wicked concupiscence ouercome reason it is no maruell though men be blinded and be lyke vnto beatles and followe all carnall pleasures To take away this darkenesse and blindenesse the Athenians prouided well when they appoynted their Areopagites to write no Comedie or Play for that they woulde auoyde all euils that might ensue thereof c Theodosius likewise did by expresse lawes decree that daunces and wanton daliance shoulde not be vsed neyther Games or Enterludes Constantinus the Emperour made lawes wherein he did vtterly forbidde all Enterludes and spectacles among the Romanes for the great discommoditie that came thereof Saint Cyprian sayth it is not ynough for his frende Eucratius to abstayne from such Enterlude