. The image of the Cross and Lights on the Altar, in the Christian Church, and in heathen temples before the Christian era, especially in the British Isles, together with the history of the triangle, the dove, floral decorations, the easter egg, and other heathen symbols. eptwith such excesse of meats and drinks, in all kinds ofinordinate banketting and revell for the space of thirteenedales toofether, according to the custome still used evenunto this day, resembling the feasts which the Gentilesused to keepe in the honor of their drunken god Bacchus,called in Latin Bacchanalia ; wherein all k
. The image of the Cross and Lights on the Altar, in the Christian Church, and in heathen temples before the Christian era, especially in the British Isles, together with the history of the triangle, the dove, floral decorations, the easter egg, and other heathen symbols. eptwith such excesse of meats and drinks, in all kinds ofinordinate banketting and revell for the space of thirteenedales toofether, according to the custome still used evenunto this day, resembling the feasts which the Gentilesused to keepe in the honor of their drunken god Bacchus,called in Latin Bacchanalia ; wherein all kinds of beast! ielust and sensual voluptuousness was put in use. Butwhence so ever, or by whom so ever this insatiablegourmandise came up amongst us, suerlie a great abuseit is, to see the people at such a solemn feast, where theyought to be occupied in thanks giving to Almightie God,for the sendino: downe of his onlie begotten Son amono-stus, to give themselves in manner wholie to gluttonie,with such maner of lewd and wanton pastimes, as thoughthey should rather celebrate the same feasts of Bacclia-nalia, and those other feasts which the Gentiles also kept,called Floralia and Priapalia, than the remembi-ance ofChrists nativitie, who abhoreth all maner of such ex-. University of Toronf(Library DO NOT REMOVETHE CARD FROM THIS POCKET Acme Library Card PocketUnder Pat. Ref. Jndes File Made by LIBRARY BUREAU $?> /•in
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