. Histrio-Mastix : The players scourge, or, Actors Tragaedie, divided into two parts : wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers Arguments ... that popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions ... and that the profession of play-poets, of stage players, together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians. eniasre-Hway hiMfe>as foone as he is born, whiles we thus impi- °l maJornmoufly celebrate & prophane Fus birth,& eve pierce h:m non omnilam:through with thef
. Histrio-Mastix : The players scourge, or, Actors Tragaedie, divided into two parts : wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers Arguments ... that popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions ... and that the profession of play-poets, of stage players, together with the penning, acting, and frequenting of stage-playes, are unlawfull, infamous and misbeseeming Christians. eniasre-Hway hiMfe>as foone as he is born, whiles we thus impi- °l maJornmoufly celebrate & prophane Fus birth,& eve pierce h:m non omnilam:through with thefe grofle diforderswhich are now too fadiwsmaro-frcquent among many Turkcs & In- rum aimkuradels behold our Bacchanalia Chriftmas extravagancies, quam mmo*would they not thinke our Saviourtobe * glutton, an ™?£ ev*Epicure, a yvine-bibber, a Divell, afrimd of pub Heaves mXra crimi-andfwners, as the * Iewes once ltiled him ; yea a very na cum mino-Bacchus, a God of all diflbluteneffe, drunkennelTe and r& his Nativitie is thus folemnized by his q\ ^filc ho are never fo diffolutely, fo exorbitantly ^afor|bus ^er-kindes,as in this his feffivall? Would they Tn un probrofitatem propeomni* Ecclcfiaftica okbi e4 • utincunfto popfflSciinftiano genus quodammodo fanaiutis cfle vitiofum 5c c,ldvi*% * Luke 7.$ ,:.,:i 7-°. Ccccc a not. 748 Hiftrk-Majlix. P a r t . r. *De Gubema. not take up that ipeechin Salvian. * Ecce quale s funttione Dei 1. 4. qHl Chrijtunu colunt ? falfunu plane illud est quod ai-p. 1373 x38, pint fe bonadifcere, quod jail ant fe fanbla legis pr&ceptaretinere. St enirru bona difcerent, boni ejfent. Talis pro-fetto fefta eft, qvtales et feftatores: hoc funt abfque dubtoquod docentur. ^Apparet itaque Prophetas quos habenttrnpurituterru docere, et o/fpoftotos quos legunt nefariafenfire, et Evangeliaquibus imbuuntur hacqua ipfifact-um pradicare. Toftremo (anila a (fhrifttanis fieren
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