Histrio-mastix The players scourge, or, actors tragædie, divided into two parts. Wherein it is largely evidenced, by divers arguments, by the concurring authorities and resolutions of sundry texts of Scripture ... That popular stage-playes ... are sinfull, heathenish, lewde, ungodly spectacles, and most pernicious corruptions; condemned in all ages, as intolerable mischiefes to churches, to republickes, to the manners, mindes, and soules of men. 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. All pretences to the contrary are here likewise fully answered; and the unlawfulnes of acting, of beholding academicall enterludes, briefly discussed; besides sundry other particulars concerning dancing, dicing, health-drinking, &c. of which the table will informe you. By William Prynne, an vtter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne.

A TABLE (VVITH SOME briefe Additions) of the chiefest Passages in this Treatise: p. signifying the Page: f. the Folioes•• from pag. 513. to 545. (which exceeded the Printers Computation) m. the marginall notes: if you finde f. be∣fore any pages from 545. to 568. then looke the Folioes which are overcast: if p. then the pages following.

A

• Abomination, used alwayes for a heinous sinne in Scripture. pag. 181.212. Mens wearing of womens, and womens putting on of mens apparell, an Abo∣mination to the Lord. p. 178. to 216.879. to 899.
• Acting of popular or private Enterludes, for gaine or pleasure, infamous, un∣lawfull, and that as well in Princes, Nobles, Gentlemen, Schollers, Di∣vines, as common Actors. p. 133.134, 137, 140, 841. to 911. p. 571. to 668. Sparsim. accompanied with effemina∣cic, hypocrisie, and others sinnes. p. 151. to 250.841. to 911. It occasions divers sins in Actors and Spectators. p. 151. to 250.907. to 911. It helpes not mens action or elocution. p. 931. to 939. Objections for acting of Playes answered. p. 84. to 106. & 913. to 943. Children ought not to bee trained up nor taught to act. pag. 135.138, 168, 169, 172, 908. Acting of Idols, Devils, evill persons par••s, or evill things, sinfull p. 84. to 106.141, 176, 177, 405, 406, 949. See Idols.
• Achilles taxed for putting on womens apparell. p. 182.199, 884.
• Adrian his Temples built for Christ, without Images. pag. 901.
• Adultery an hainous dangerous sinne. pag. 376. to 384. punished with death in divers places. p. 382.383. See the Ho∣mily against Adultery. part 3. pag. 86.87. and Thomas Beacon his 3. Booke of Matri∣mony. p. 660. to 670. occasioned, fo∣mented by Playes and Play-houses. p. 227. to 446.498, 662.
• AEgyptians, condemned musicke. p•• 287.
• AEtredus, his censure of lascivious Church-musicke. pag. 279.280. of Playes. pag. 684.
• AEneas Sylvius, his prophane Play and life. p. 112.113, 765. his recantation of his amorous Poems. pag. 840.918. his censure of wanton Poets. p. 917.918. of Playes and Players. pag. 691.737 m.
• AEschylus, one of the first inventors of

• Tragedies. pag. 17. f. 552. his strange and sudden death. fol. 552.553.
• AEthiopians, punished adultery with death. pag. 382.
• Agefilaus his answer to Callipides. p. 741.742.
• C. Agrippa, his censure of Dan••ing. pag. 237.238. of lascivious Church-mu∣ficke. pag. 284••285. of Popish Stewes, and of the incontinency of Monkes, Nons, and Popish Clergie men. pag. 213.215, 445, 446, 880, 881. of Playes and Players. pag. 692.869. of wanton Poems. p 385.836, 915.
• Alcibiades, traduced by Eupolis. pag. 121. f. 553. his dislike of Musicke. p. 287.
• Alcaeus, his modestie. fol. 515.
• Alchuvinus, his censure of Stage-playes, wanton Musicke, Kalends, New-yeeres gifts, and mens acting of Playes in womens apparell. pag. 197.198, 278, 564, 755, 756. m. his pas∣sage for sanctifying the Lords Day. pag. 630. m.
• Ale-houses, much haunted on Lords-dayes and Holy-dayes. f. 536. Clergie men prohibited to keepe, or haunt them. p. 591. to 637.655, 666, 667.
• Alexander Fabritius, his censure of Dan∣cing, Dancing-women and their at∣tires. p. 238.256, 257, 258. Of Dice-play; Epistle Dedicatory 1. & p. 626. m. of Stage-playes p. 434.435.
• Alexander Severus, his Temple for Christ. p. 901. m. withdrew Players peusions. pag. 313.
• Alipius, a memorable story of his fall and Apostasie by resorting to a Play-house. fol. 548.
• Bishop Alley, his censure of Playes and Play-bookes. p. 9••9. to 923.
• Altars, honoured and danced about by Pagans. p. 235.236, 758. m. none in the Primitive Church. p. 896. placing of Tapers on them, derived from Sa∣turne his worshippers. pag. 758. m. See Bishop ••ewels censure of Altars, & of their standing at the East end of the Church; in his Answer to M. Hardings Preface. p. 6. in his Reply to Harding. Artic. 3. Devis. 27. pag. 195.196. & Artic. 13. Devis. 6. p. 488. Thomas Beacon, in his Cat••chisme. fol. 484. William Wraghton, in his Hun∣ting of the Romish Fox. fol. 12. Bishop Hooper, his Iudgement of them. See Hooper.
• Gulielmus Altisiodorensis, his censure of Playes. pag. 68••.
• S. Ambrose, his censure of Dancing, especi∣ally in women. pag. 223.232. m. of Dicing. Epist. Ded. 1. of mens putting on womens apparell. p. 191.192, 193. of mens long and frizled haire. p. 190.193, 209. m. of Images, especially of the Deity. p. 898. m. of Kalends and New yeeres gifts. p. 20.786. of lasci∣vious Songs. p. 266. Of Stage-playes. p. 339.671. of giving money to Play∣ers. p. 316.323. How Christs Nativity ought to be celebrated. p. 774. to 781.
• Ammianus Marcellinus, his censure of Playes and Dicing. p. 465.710.
• Anna••us, his effeminacy. pag. 88••.
• Anselme, his censure of Playes. pag. 684.846. fol. 545.
• Anthemius, his Edict for sanctifying the Lords Day, and suppressing Stage-playes. pag. 469.470. against Images. pag. 900.
• Antioch, its preeminence before Rome, p. 410.424.
• Antiochus the mad, taxed for his Dancing, Masquing, Play-haunting, pag. 249.250, 857.
• Antiphanes the Comedian, his death. fol. 553.
• Antoninus the Emperor censured for his Dancing and delight in Playes. pag. 710.854, 855.
• Antoninus his censure of Playes and

• Players. pag. 691.
• Apparell, the end and use of it. p. 207. o∣ver costly new-fangled Play-house apparell censured. pag. 19.216. to 220.420, 427, 571, 584, 586, 755, 757, 772, 775, 776, 896. to 904. Mens putting on of womens, and womens of mens apparell (especially to act a Play) unlawfull, abominable, un∣naturall, the occasion of Sodomie and lewdnesse: proved at large. p. 168. to 172.178. to 276.584, 850, 859. to 889.
• Appearances of evill to be avoyded. p. 88.89, to 106, 948, 949.
• Apostles, their Constitutions against Stage-playe•• and Actors. p. 550.649. to 652. slandered and persecuted as Se∣ditious persons. p. 813.833. Puritans, as the world now judgeth. pag. 799.800, 801.
• Applauses of Playes and Players censured p. 297.298, 299. See Chrysost. Hom. 30. in Act. Apostol. Tom. 3. Col. 549.550. against Stage-applauses, and the heming and applauding of Preachers in their Ser∣mons.
• Aquinas his censure of Playes, Players, & putting on womens apparell. pag. 179.182, 306, 324. f. 543.689, 887.
• Arabians punish adultery with death. p. 382.
• Arcadius his Edict against Sword-playes. pag. 75.468.
• Architas his modesty. pag. 515.
• Ardalion his strange baptisme and con∣version. p. 119.
• Ardaburius censured for delighting in Playes. pag. 857. m.
• Arias Montanus his censure of Dancing, Playes and Acting. fol. 558.559. pag. 842.843.
• Aristodemus his effeminate practise and death. pag. ••05.
• Aristophanes his abuse of Socrates. p. 121.730.
• Aristotle his censure of Playes, Players, and wanton pictures. p. 121.366, 367, 448, 449, 484, 586. m. 703.
• Arnobius his censure of Playes and Dan∣cing. p. 222•• 334. of Images in Chur∣ches, and of making Gods Image. p. 896.897. m.
• Ast••rius his verdict against Dancing, Stage-playes, Mummers, Kalends, New-yeeres gifts, Stage-playes, and mens acting in womens apparell. pag. 197.316, 317. fol. 533.
• Ateas his censure of Musicke. p. 287.
• Athanasius, what singing he ordained in Churches. p. 283.284. his testimonies of George the Arrian. pag. 671.672. of the ill effects of acting Pagan Idols vices. p. 95. against Images. p. 900. m.
• Atheisme, occasioned and fomented by Stage playes. f. 550.551. & p. 363.
• Athe••agoras his censure of Sword-playes and Stage-playes. p. 558••669.
• Athaeneus, his censure of Dancing, Dan∣cers, Players, Playes, long haire, effe∣minacy, lascivious Musicke, &c. p. 249.250, 288, 209. m. 704.883.
• Athenians first inventors of Stage-playes. p. 17. their prodigality on them and hurt by them. p. 312. fol. 562. p. 709.710. Abandoned Playes and Play-Poets at last. p. 457.730, 921, 839.
• S. Augustine, his censure of Dancing and amorous Songs. p. 223, 270, 271. of Images, specially of God. p. 898•• m. of New-yeeres gifts and Heath-drink∣ing. pag. 20.22, 756. Of Stage-playes•• Players, Theaters, & Play-haunting. Epistle Ded. 2. p. 49.50, 164, 165, 313, 316, 324.325, 341, to 349, 474, 475, 476, fo. 524, 525, 532, 541, 542, 560, 681, 843, 844, 971, 987. of mens act∣ing in womens apparell & long haire. p. 193.194.189.202. See Enar. in Ps. 32. p. 244. his repentance for resorting to Playes before his cōversion. f. 568. his

• opiniō of the beginning of the Lords Day. p. 643. of giving mony to Stage-players. p. 324.325, 873.
• Augustus his proceedings and Lawes a∣gainst Playes, Actors, and Dancing. p. 459.460, 707, 708, 861.
• M. Aurelius his lawes and cens••res a∣gainst Playes and Players, whom he banished into Hellespont. p. 318.319, 463, 464, 137, 138.
• Axiothea her resort to Plato his Schoole in mans apparell taxed. p. 184.

B

• Bishop Babington his censure of Stage-playes. p. 359.360.
• Bacchanalia, how celebrated by Pagans. p. 744.745, 751. to 760. Imitated by Christians. f. 536. p. 743. to 749.757. to 765.
• Bacchus, Players, Playes & Play-houses dedicated to his worship. p. 17.22, 168, 510, 511. not to be invocated. p. 584.
• Baptisme in jest upon the Stage turned into earnest. p. 118.119. Stage-playes and Dancing the uery Pompes of the Devill which wee renounce in bap∣tismo. p. 3.15, 25, 42. to 61.129, 230, 236, 257, 425, 430.522, 523, 524, 528, 560. to 567, 658, 684, 704, 829, 836, 837, 911, 990. Our vow in bap∣tisme to be performed and most seri∣ously considered, p. 53. to 61. a great preservative against sin if oft remem∣bred. p. 563.564.
• Baronius his censure of Stage-playes. p. 566.567, 696.
• S. Basil his censure of Dancing. p. 223.224, 225. m. 277.278. of Health-drinking, p. 22. of lascivious Songs and Musicke. p. 266.273, 276, 277, 278, 308. of Stage-playes, and Play-poets. p. 308.337, 679, 680, 915. of mens effeminate long haire. p. 211. m.
• Ba••tologies in prayer prohibited. p. 19.
• Thomas Beacon his censure of Dancing, Dicing, and Stage-playes. pag. 626. m. 693. of lascivious Church-Musicke. p. 282. to 28••.
• Bellarmine his censure of Playes. fol. 538. pag. 696.697.
• Beare-baiting censured and prohibited. p. 583. & fol. 556.
• S. Bernard against Stage-playes, Dicing, long haire, and ribaldrie Songs. p. 350.560.684. against Images, &c. p. 902.903, 904. his prayse of the Scriptures fulnesse. p. 928.
• B••za his recantation of his lascivious Poems. p. 840.
• Bishops children prohibited to behold, act, or set forth Stage-playes, p. 574.591, 653. ought to suppresse Playes, Dan∣cing, & Play-haunters. p. 150. ought to invite the poore to their tables, and to have some part of the Scripture read at meales, and then to discourse of it p. 591.653. See Gratian. Distinct. 44. not to weare costly apparell. p. 621•• must not play at Dice, nor be∣hold Dice-players, nor keepe any Di∣cers or idle persons in their houses. p. 657. to 661.666. Bishops parts not to be acted on the Stage. p. 596.601. ought not to read Heathen or pro∣phane Authors. pag. 78.79, 915, 916, 925, 926, &c. ought to preach con∣stantly once a day in BB. Hoopers opi∣nion. fol. 521. p. 629. See Ministers.
• Petrus Blesensis hi•• character of an Offi∣ciall. f•• 537. m. his censure of Players. and such who harbour them. pag. 556.684, 737.
• Bodine his censure of Stage-playes. pag. 483.484.
• M. Bolton his verdict of Stage-playes pag. 16 364, 365.
• Bonefix••s condemned by Councels and Fathers. p. 21.22, 580, 583, 585, 587, 588, 770, 772, 773, f•• 535,
• ...

• Bookes of Paganisme and Pagan Idols prohibited to be read. p. 78.79, 915, to 928. Prophane, lascivious, amorous Play-bookes, Poems, Histories, and Arcadi••es unlawfull to be penn••d, printed, read, especially of children and youthes. pag. 103. m. 108. m. 307.453, 454, 831.913. to 929. Magicke, and lascivious Bookes ought to bee burnt. p. 916.717, 919, 920, 922.
• Bowing to and before Altars, derived from Pagans. p. 236, See my Lame Giles his Haltings. p. 36. to 39. & the Appendix to it. p. 15.16. Bowing and kneeling downe to Images, is Idolatry. p. 896. to 904. m Exod. 20.5. c. 23.24 Levit. 26.1. Num. 25.2. Deut. 5.8, 9. Iosh. 23.7, 16. Iudg. 2.12, 17, 19, 1 King. 19.18 2 King. 5.18. c. 17.35. 2 Chron. 25.14. Dan. 3.5, 6, 28. Rom. 11.4. Therefore bow∣ing and cringing to Altars (a thing never used by the I••wes or Primitive Church and Christians, but onely by the Papists, who de∣cree thus: Summa reverentia & honor maxim{us} sanctis Altaribus exhibeatur, & maxime ••ubi sacrosanctum corpus Domini res••rvatur & Missa celebra∣tur. Bochellus Decret. Eccles. Gal. l. 4. Tit. 1. c. 81. p 558.) must be Idolatry too. If any reply; that they bow and kneele not unto Images, Altars, or Communion Tables, but before th••m: I answer, that as bowing, kneeling, praying, and worshipping before God; is the same in Scripture phrase with bowing, kneeling•• praying unto God, and worshipping of God: as is evident by De••t. 26••6. 1 Sam. 1.12, 15, 19. 2 Chron. 20.18•• Psal. 2••.7. Psal. 72.9 Ps. 86••9: Ps. 95.6. Ps. 96.9, 15. Psal. 98.6, 9. Isay 66.23. Rev. 3.9. c. 4.10. ••. 5.8. cap 7.11. c. 15.4. compared with Isay 45.23. c. 49.23. c•• 60.14. Rom•• 14.11. Gen. 24.26.48. c. 47.31. Heb. 11.21. Exod. 4.31•• c. 12.27. c. 34.8. 1 Chron•• 29.20. 2 Chron. 7.3. c. 29.29, 30. Nehem. 8.6. P••. 72.9. And as bowing, kneeling, or fall••ng d••wne before m••n, is all on•• with bowing, kneeling, and fall••ng down to men: witnesse Gen. 49.8. 1 Sam. 25.23. 2 Sam 14.33. cap. 24.20. 1 King. 1.16, 23. 2 King. 2.15. Prov. 14.9. compa∣red with Genes. 27.29. Exod. 11.8. 1 King. 2.9. 1 Chron 21.21. So bowing, kneeling, and falling downe before Images, Altars, or Communion-Tables, is the very same in Gods owne language and repute, with bowing, kneeling, and falling downe unto them: as the 2 Chron 25.14. L••k. 4.7. Dan. 3, 3.5, 6. paralleld with Exo. 20.5. Levit. 26.1. Matth. 11.9•• and the fore al∣leaged Scriptures infallibly demonstrate, and the Homily against the perill of idola∣try. p. 44. to 75 with William Wraghton his Rep••y to the Rescuer of the Romish Fox, and the Authors here quoted. p. 902.903. abundantly prove: Needs th••refore must it be most grosse Idolatry, as our owne Ho∣milies and Writers teach us.
• Thomas Bradwardine his passage against Stage-playes. p. 689.
• Bram••nes, Brasilians, & those of Bantam pu∣nish adultery with death. p. 382.383.
• Bribe-takers act their parts in Hell. p. 13.
• M. Brinsley his censure of Stage-playes. p. ••63.364. f•• 550.
• Brownists censured. p. 38.
• Bucer his opinion of academical and po∣pular Playes. p. 7.692. for two Ser∣mons every Lords Day. p. 629 m.
• Brissoniu•• his censure of Stage playes. p. 695.
• C. Bulengerius his censure of, and Booke a∣gainst Stage••playes•• p. 320.358, 696, 697
• Iohn de Burgo•• his verdict•• of Players, Playes and Dancing. p. 238.239, 689, 844. m. 846.847.

C

• C. Caligula censured for favouring Play∣ers, for acting and frequenting Stage-playes, putting on wom••ns apparell, and drinking his Horses health. pag.

• 200.249, 462, 708, 709, 736, 741, 848 849. slaine at a Play. f. 554. p. 849.
• Calvin his censure of Playes and Play∣ers. p. 692.907. of Dancing. p. 226.240.
• Candlemas, and the burning of Tapers on it derived from the Pagan Februa∣lia. p. 758.760.
• Canticles, anciently prohibited to be read of children and carnall persons p. 914.915.
• Cappadocia, its extent and division. p 678.679. its prayses. p. 675.
• Cappadocians, not alwayes infamous. pag. 674. to 677.
• Cappadox, not a proverbiall but a natio∣nall title. p. 674. to 678.
• Carinus censured for favouring Players, and lewde persons. f. 547. p. 710.857.
• Cassiodorus his censure of Playes and Players. p. 470.471, 478, 682, 683.
• Cirque-playes censured and condemned by Fathers and Emperours. pag. 470. 556, 685, 340, 729. fol. 519, 523, 524, 525.
• Catiline his conditions, pag. 133.149.
• Cato, how much feared of the Romanes. f. 529. his gravity. p. 740.
• Catullus censured, pag. 916.
• Censors appointed to correct Playes and Players. p 38.478, 472.
• Charles the Great his censure and Edicts against Stage-playes, Dancing, and ribaldry Songs on Lords-dayes and Holy-dayes, p. 271.715.996. See the places of Bochellus quoted in the mar∣gent: against Images. p. 900.
• Charles the 6. of France his danger at a Masque. f. 557.558.
• Charles the 9. of France, his Edicts a∣gainst Playes and Dancing on Lords-dayes and Holy-dayes. p. 715.
• King Charles his pious Statute for suppres∣sing all Playes, and Enterludes, and unlawfull pastimes on the Lords-day. p. 241.243, 495, 715, 716, 717. Dancing upon Lords-dayes punisha∣ble by this Statute. Ibidem.
• Charondas his law against Cowards pag. 584•• m. 883.
• Children to be kept from Playes. p. 366.367. See Parents.
• Christ wept oft, but never laughed. pag. 294.402, 403. fol. 526. accused of se∣dition & rebellion. p. 822.823. coun∣ted a Deceiver. p. 816. a Puritan, pag. 799.800, 801. his Nativity how to be celebrated. p. 48.225, 526, 743, to 783 for what end he dyed and suffered, and was incarnate. p. 26.526, 749. to 752•• the onely patterne of our imi∣tation. f. 526. p. 732. dishonoured and offended with Stage-playes•• p. 44.48. f. 525.526. p. 743. to 750. His passion ought not to be acted, and yet Papists and prophane Iesuits play it. p. 108. to 119, 624, 636, 763, 764, 765, 766, 929. Why he redeemed us. p. 26.27, 749, 450.
• Christians, must imitate & follow Christ alone. p. 98.99, 526, 732. must excell Pagans in grace and vertue. p. 57.98, 99, 4••5, 454, 455, 711, to 713. what they are and ought to be. p. 56.57, 63, 425, persecuted and hated for their goodnesse and because they are Chri∣stians. p. 799. to 826 nick-named pag. 824. accused of faction, rebellion, and hypocrisie. pag. 816. to 828. must not follow Pagan customes. p. 17. to 28. 32, 33, 47, 578, 580, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 751. to 762. not to read Playes and wanton Bookes: but the Scriptures and good Bookes. p. 913. to 924. the Primitive Christians con∣demned Stage-playes, and excommu∣nicated Players and Play-haunters. p. 2.3•• 4, 49. to 53. 325. to 355.545. to 705. and passim. Ill Christians worse then Pagans. p. 454.455, 711. to 713. 798•• exceedingly dishonour Christ,

• and scandalize religion. pag. 744. to 749.
• Christmas disorders censured at large•• p. 48 225, 743, to 783.600. to 635. See. Had∣don Cont. Osoriū. l. 3. f. 203. derived from Papists, & Pagans Saturnalia. p. 600. to 635. Sparsim. 751. to 769. Christmas, how to be celebrated. p. 48. 225, 226, 526, 576, 585, 586, 600. to 635. Spar∣sim. 743. to 783. See Holi-dayes.
• Christmas Lords of Misrule, whence deri∣ved. p. 767.
• Chrysologus, his censure of Dancing•• pag. 224. m.f. 526.
• Chrysostome, his censure of dancing, espe∣cially at ma••riages. p. 222.223, 228. m. 555. See Marriage. of Dice-play. Epist. Dedicit. 1. p. 423. of lascivious Songs and Musicke. p. 263.267, 268, 269, 412, 413, 420. See Homil. 20. ad Ephes. & Hom. 12. ad Collos. of gawdy apparell and Stage-attires. p. 219.420. of excessive laughter. p. 290. to 296.403, 404. of ••ffeminacy pag. 169. of mens long haire, womēs cutting their haire, & mens putting on of womens apparell. pag. 169.195, 196, 426. Of Stage-playes, Players, Play-haunters and Play-houses. p. 50.66, 156, 164, 169, 392, to 432, 474.552, 563, 566, 680, 681, 738, 988, 989. See Hom. 12•• in Collos. & 20. in Ephes.
• Churches, no Playes, Dances, scurrilous Songs or Pastimes to bee suffred in them, nor yet in Church-yards. p. 581.600. to 660. Sp••rsim. 995.999, 947. Gazers in i•• censured. p. 418.999. no Images, Crucifixes, or Saints Pictures to be suffred in thē. p. 894. to 905. not to be overcuriously or vainly adorned. p. 902.903. the Primitive Church ex∣communicated Players & Play-haun∣ters, & condemned Stage-playes, and dancing. p. 134.543. to 690. See Playes.
• Clemangis his censure of Dancing, Di∣cing, Playes, and Players, and of the abuses on Lords-dayes and Holi∣dayes. f. 535.536, 5•• 7. p. 690.691. of Popish Non•• and their grosse incon∣tinency. p. 880. m.
• Clemens Alexandrinus his censure of lasci∣vious kisses and dancing. p. 166. m. 222. of mens acting in womens appa∣rell and wearing long haire p. 167.187 189. of lascivious apparell. p. 218. of Images, especially of God the Father. p. 896.897. m. of excessive laughter. p. 392. s••urrilous Songs. p. 266. effe∣minate Musicke. pag. 275. of Stage-playes, and Theaters, p. 67. m. 329. 344, 472, 532, 609.
• Clemens Romanus his censure of mens long and frizled haire. p. 189. m. of Players, Playes, and Play-haunters. p. 49. f. 532. p. 649. to 652. his command and exhortation to Lay-men to read the Scriptures. p. 927.
• Commodus, censured for acting the Play∣er and Gladiator; for favouring Play∣ers and Gladiators, for Sodomie and putting on womens apparell, &c. fol. 555.721, 852, 853, 894, 882. his mur∣ther. f. 555. p. 854.
• Company of ••vill persons to be eschued. p. 144, 148. to 153. f. 547.548. a dan∣gerous snare, apt to draw men to Playes and sundry sinnes. pag. 143. to 152.416, 417. f. 547.548, 549. got by frequenting Playes. f. 547.548, 549, 598. See Master Boltons walking with God. p. 73, &c.
• Constantine the Great an Englishman borne: a suppressor of Stage-playes, of Sword-playes. p. 75.467. and of Images. p. 900.
• Constantius his Edict against Sword-playes. p. 468.
• Councels: 55. against Stage-playes. pag. 570. to 668. against Dancing, Dicing, Health-drinking, Beare-bayting, Bonefires, New••yeeres gifts, lascivi∣ous

• Pictures, Songs and Musicke•• pro∣phaning of Lords-dayes, Holi-dayes, Churches, Pagan customes, haunting of Ale-houses and Tavernes, Clergy∣mens seeing and acting of Playes, Dancing, Dicing, Non-residency, &c. p. 570. to 668 p. 150. m. 221.222, 240, 265, 286, 287, 354, 756, 915, 917, &c. See these severall Titles. Generall Councels binde in point of manners. Ibidem. For s••nctifying the Lords Day. p. 242. m. 570. to 660.
• Crab his Councels against Stage-playes. p. 571. to 660.
• Crossing of the face when men goe to Playes, shuts in the Devill. p. 342.
• Crownes of Lawrell not to be worne of Christians. p. 20.36.
• Cyprian his censure of Mens long haire. p. 189 of mens acting in womens ap∣parell. p. 168, 169, 187, 188. of lascivi∣ous apparell. p. 217, of Images. p. 897. his Bookes against Stage-playes, and censure of Players, Playes, Play-haun∣ting and Theaters, &c. pag. 135.136, 168, 169, 187, 188, 331, 332, 333, 334, 473, 523, 546, 558, 562, 670, 392, 722, 728, 729.
• Cyr••llus Alexandrinus, his censure of ma∣king Gods Image. p. 898. of Dancing & Stage-playes, especially on Lords-dayes and Holi-dayes. pag. 278.279, 533, 534, 682, of wanton Musicke. p. 278.279.
• Cyrillus Hierusolomitanus, his censure of Stage-playes, as the Devils pomps, &c. which we renounce in baptisme. pag. 49.339, 562, 565.

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• Damascen his censure of Playes & Dan∣cing, specially on the Lords Day. pag. 260.349. f. 533.544. p. 683. of making the Picture of God. p. 899 m.
• Damnation, oft occasioned by Stage-playes. f. 565. to 569. p. 910. oft to bee thought on. Ibidem.
• Dancing at marriages, condemned. p. 20. 22, 36,, 222, 278, 555, 573, 602, 603. See Marriage: the Devils procession and invention. p. 228.229, 232, one of the Devils pomps which we renounce in baptisme. p. 225.228, 229, 232, 236, 238•• 257, 562, 565. an occasion of the breach of all the 10. Cōmandements. p. 231.232. an offence against all the Sacraments. p. 257.258. derived from Pagans who spent their Festivals in dancing, and courted their Idols with it. p. 225.233, 234, 235, 236, 251, 575, 576, 584, 704, 751. to 763, 771, 779. Infamous among Pagans, and con∣demned by them. pag. 245. to 252. & 709. to 711.849. to 864.884, 854, 855, 801. a concomitant of Stage-playes. p. 220.221, 259, 260. condem∣ned by the Waldenses and French Protestants. p. 226. to 233.636, 637. Christians ought not to teach their Children, especially their Daughters, to dance. p. 232.233, 236, 636, 637. Delight & skil in Dancing, a badge of lewde lascivious women & strumpets. pag. 232.236, 237, 238, 240, 245, 248, 249.250.258. The Devill danceth in dancing women. p. 228.229, 232, 257, 258, 260. effeminate, mixt, lascivious dancing condemned by Scriptures, Councels, Fathers, Pagan and mo∣derne Christian Authors of all sorts, as an occasion of much sin and lewd∣nes, &c. p. 22.56, 220. to 262.271, 272. f. 534.575, 576, 599, 584, 600.636, 637, 652, 666, 693, 799, 698, 704, to 711.729, 765, 770, 771, 772, 479. Pro∣hibited and condemned upon Lords-dayes, and Holi-dayes as a sinfull, un∣se••mely, and unlawfull pastime, by Councels, Fathers, Imperiall and Ca∣nonicall Constitutions, Christian

• Writers of all sorrs by our owne En∣glish Canons and Homilies, and by the Statutes of 1. Car. c. 1. & 5, & 6. E. 6. c. 3. p. 231. m. 220.222, 240. to 245. 257, 258, 260, ••71, 272, 530. to 540. p. 575, 576, 580, 605. to 609.615, 620, 621, 622, 625, 627. to 636.664, 715, 716, 717, 770, 771, to 779, 780, 781, 913, 693, 419. All Clergie-men prohibited to dance, or to behold o∣thers dancing, or to reward or encou∣rage Dancers. p. 573. to 678. Sparsim. See Prudentius contr. Symmachum. lib. 1. Bibl. Patrū. Tom. 4. p 910. D Greg. Nyssen de Resurrect Christi. Oratio. 3. p. 160•• Va∣leri••n. Hom. 1. De bono pudicitiae. Bibl. Pa∣trum. Tom. 5. pars 3. p. 477. C.D. Arias Montanus in lib. Iudicum. c. 16. p. 568. to 573. Ioannis Munster De Saltationibus. lib. Gulielmus St••cki••s Antiqu. Convivalium. l. 3. cap•• 21.22. Zeghedini Lo••i Communes. Tit. Chorea & Saltatio. Gulielmus Peral∣dus Summa Virtutum ac Vitiorum. Tom. 2. Tit. De Luxuria c. 3. p. 68. M. Deering his 10. Lecture on the Hebr••wes. Francis Salis his Introduction to a devout life. part 3. c. 32.33. p. 648.649. Vincentius Belua∣censis Speculum Morale l. 3. pars 9. Distinct. 6. p. 251.252. & Summula Raymundi. fol. 93. where a Dance is thus defined. Chorea est circulus ca••henatus cujus cen∣trum est Diabolus. with sundry others here omitted, against Dancing.
• David his Royall resolution. p. 737. cen∣sured for feining himselfe mad. p. 894. 160. his dancing before the Arke no justification of our lascivious dan∣cing. p. 552. to 555.729, 773, 729.
• Day of Iudgement at hand, and ever to be meditated on•• p. 56.59.976. to 979.
• Dice-play, and Dice-houses censured, con∣demned, by Councels, Fathers, all sorts of Writers both Christian and Pagan, by Mahomet in his Alcoran, by Imperiall Edicts, and Princes Lawes, and by the Statutes of ou•• Kingdome Epistle Dedicatory. 1.2. p. 471.492, 494, 495, 618, 626, 627, 655 to 666.693, 700, 795. Ministers and Clergie-men prohibited to play at Dice or Tables, to stand by or looke upon Dicers, or to suffer any Dicing, Carding, or Gaming in their houses. p. 573. to 668. Sparsim.
• Dicers excommunicated and kept from the Sacrament in the Primitive Church. p. 618.926.
• Did••cus de Tapia, his censure of Players, Playes, and Theaters. pag. 481.482, 483, 766.
• Diodorus Siculus his testimony of the ori∣ginall of Playes: & censure of them. p. 510.704.
• Diogenes Cinnic••s his censure of Musicke. p. 287.
• Diogenes La••rti••s his censure of Stage-playes. p. 707.
• Dion Cassius, his censure of Dancing, Playes, & Caligula his acting of them. p. 707. to 710.
• Dionysius Halicarnasseus his censure of Playes, their originall and use. p. 704.
• Devils and Devill-Idols the inventors, the fomenters of Stage-playes, and Dan∣cing which were appropriated to their solemne honour and worship, their Festivals being spent in Playes and Dancing, which they exacted from their worshippers. p. 9. to 50.96, 131, 164, 165, 177, ••25, 228, 229, ••32, 236, 238, 257, 403, 404, 430, 47••, 479, 509, 510, 522, 523, 524, 550, 551, 561, to 567, 576, 584, 658, 684, 692, 704, 726, to 734, 751, to 763, 766, 772, 773, 779, 780, 786, 793. have Stage-playes in Hell every Lords-day night. p. 12.13. The inventors of no good things, and the enemies of mankinde. pag. 9.14, 15, 16, &c. Claime Playes, Play-haunters, and Play-houses as

• their owne. p. 10.11, 483. f. 523, 524, 555. honoured oft-times in stead of Christ. p. 744.745, 759. The onely gainers by Stage-playes. p. 44. to 48.
• Divinations and charmes unlawfull. pag. 20.21, 583.
• Divorce; women who resort to Playes & Play-houses, may be divorced from their Husbands by the ancient Ro∣manes and Iustinian his Lawe••. p. 391.661, 662.
• S. Dominicke, a story of his going to Hell. p. 12, 13.
• Domitian banished Players and suppressed Playes. p. 461.714.
• Domna censured for putting on mans ap∣parell. p. 204.
• Drunkennesse, occasioned by Stage-playes p. 508. to 512.731, 732. a great and scandalous sinne, especially in Clergy men. p. 508.509, 591. to 636. Sparsim. 780. m.

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• Edgar, his excellent Oration to his Pre∣lates. p. 762.
• Edricke his censure. p. 133.
• Edward the 6. his Statutes and Commis∣sion for abolishing Images and Saints pictures out of Churches. p. 902.903. m. For sanctifying the Lords Day, &c p. 781. his Comedy, De Meretrice Babilonica. p. 834.
• Effeminacy, a great sinne. p. 167.206. fol. 546.547. a neces••ary concomitant of Play-acting and a fruit of Playes. pag. 167. to 214.420.422, 458. f. 540, 547, 548, 874. to 895.949. in haire, appa∣rell, speech or gestures much condem∣ned. Ibidem.
• Queene ELIZABETH, and her Coun∣sell suppressed Playes, Play-houses, and Dice-houses. p. 491.492. her In∣junctions against Images & Pictures in Churches, which she caused to bee demolished & taken out of Churches. pag. 902.903. m. her Statutes against Playes and Players. p. 495.
• Engl••sh Lawes, Statutes, Magistrates, Vniversities, Writers, against Dicing, Mummers, Players, Dancing, Stage-playes, lascivious Songs and Musicke, Play-bookes, &c. p. 109.110, 227, 261, 273, 279. to 288.358. to 366.434. to 445.485. to 497. f. 517, 518, 519. p. 698.699, 700, 715, 716, 717, 793, 794, 919. to 924. against Images in Churches. p. 901.902, 903. m. Epist. Ded. 1. For the sanctification of the Lords Day. pag. 241.242, 243, 715, 716, 717, 781.
• Ephori. pag. 288.922.
• Ephorus his censure of Musicke. p. 287.
• Epicarmus punished for his wanton Ver∣ses. p. 921.
• Epiphanius his censure of Stage-playes, wanton Musicke, mens wearing of womens apparell, long haire, and womens cutting their haire. pag. 188.279, 556, 680. of Images in Churches•• p. 899. m.
• Erasmus his censure of wanton Church-singing. p. 285.
• Esau and Iacob a tipe of the Reprobate and Elect. p. 347.
• Euclid censured for putting on womens apparell. p. 182.
• Eu••hrosina and Empona censured for cut∣ting their haire, and putting on mans apparell. p. 184.204.
• Eupolis the Poet drowned by Alcc••iad••••. p. 121. f. 553.
• Eus••bius his censure of Stage-playes, Dancing and wanton Musicke, espe∣cially on Lords-dayes. p. 164.260. fol. 533.534. ••. 279.670. of making the Image of God. p. 899. m.
• Euripides his death. f. 553.
• Eustatius condemned for an Heretique, for perswading women to cut their haire and put on mans apparell under pretence of devotion. p. 203, 204 184.
• ...

• Examples of Gods fearefull Iudgements upon Play-poets, Players, and Play-haunters. f. 553. to 565.
• Exhortations to Play-poets, Players, Play-haunters, p. 53. to 62. f. 567.568. pag. 566. to 569 686, 687, 701, 711, 712, 717, 718, 8••9, 830, 974. to 995.

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• Fa••e-painting condemned p. 159, 160, 505 394, 229, 890, 799, 780, 854, 893. See Gulielmus Peraldus Summa Virtutum ac Vitiorù. Tom. 2. De Superbia. c. 14.
• Fathers: against Dancing. p. 22.36, 221. to 230. Dicing. Epistle Dedicatory. 1. Heathenish customes. pag. 20. to 37. Health-drinking. p. 26.597, 598, 609, 614, 615. Mens long haire and Peri∣wigs. p 188. to 191.209, 210. lascivi∣ous Songs and Musicke. p. 261. to 285. fan••astique and gawdy apparell and fashions. p. 217.218, 890. to 904. Ima∣ges in Churches, and the making of Gods Image. pag. 894. to 904. Stage-playes. p. 66 67, 309. to 355.392. to 432.668. to 688. Sword-playes. p. 74.75, 347, 467, 468, Reading of Play-bookes and prophane Authors. p. 78.79, 915. to 928. New-yeeres gifts. p. 20••36, 197, 198, 429, 430, 755, 756. See all these Titles. Their concur∣ring resolutions to bee submitted to. p. 685.686, 687, 718, 719, 720. Puri∣tans. p. 222. 798. to 802.
• Feastivals of Pagans spent in Playes, in dancing and excesse. pag. 225.233. to 237.251, 751. to 761.771, 779. See Dancing: to bee abandon••d by all Christians pag. 20.21, 575, 576, 584, 751. to 761. turned into Christian Holi-dayes, and so brought in Hea∣thenish abuses. pag. 751. to 761. S••e Holi-da••es.
• F••asts of the Primitive Christians descri∣bed p. 768. to 780.
• Few saved. p. 244.787, 788. See D. C••etwin his strait way and narrow gate.
• Iulius Firmicus, against mens long haire and putting on of womens apparell: and Stage-playes. p. 194.195, 670.
• Floralian Enterludes acted by Whores ob∣scene and invective. p. 122.163, 214. fol. 529.
• Fornication a hainous sinne. pag. 375. to 3••0. men prone unto it. p. 372.373. occasioned and fomented by Stage-playes. pag. 327. to 446.144, 145, 146, 432, 433, 498, 662. See whores and whoredome. Not to be acted among Christians. p. 63. to 72.89. to 94.
• A••dreas Frisi••s his censure of Dancing, Dicing, Playes and scurrill Songs. pag. 693.

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• Gallienus censured, yea slaine for favou∣ring Players, acting and frequent∣ing Playes. p. 465. f. 555. p. 739.856.
• Gallus the Poet censured. p. 454.
• Gelliu•• his censure of Stage-playes. p. 452.
• George the Arrian, a Cappadocian borne. p. 671. to 679.
• George the Martyr made Symbolicall by Melancton and others. p. 676.677.
• Gerardas his saying. p. 920.
• Ger••anes punish adultery with death. p. 382. used to poll th••ir wives taken in adultery & so ••urne thē packing. p. 203 condemned Stage-playes & kept their wives from them. p. 434 457, 458, 713.
• Gerson his censure of lascivious Poems, Playes and dancing. p 690.538.922.
• Gestur••s of Ministers and others ought to be grave. p. 934.935.
• Gluverius his censure of Stage-playes. p. 457.458.
• Gods Image or Picture cannot, ought not to be made; a great impiety to make it p. 894. to 904. his Comman∣dements not to be broken in ••est pag. 84. to 88. he abhorres Stage-playes

• 130, 131. fol. 525, 526.
• Gorgias his censure of Stage-playes. pag. 449.703.
• Gosson a penitent Play-poet, his censure & Books against Stage-playes. p. 140.360, 36••, 362, 436, 437, 486, 489.
• I.G. his refutation of the Apologie for A∣ctors, and his censure of Playes. p. 141.142, 146, 487, 491, 698, 700, 795, 796.
• Gothes and Vandals rejected Stage-playes p. 457. f. 527•• p. 713.
• Gratian the Emperour his Edict against Players, and Playes. p. 468.813.
• Gratian the Canonist, his censure of Players and Playes. pag. 684.846. of New-yeeres gifts. p. 796. of Health-drinking. p. 596.
• Grecians, the originall inventers of Playes p. 17.509. admired Playes and Players at first, but abandoned and made them infamous at last. pag. 455.704, 730, 731, 738, 843, 844. Their manners, customes, and Playes prohi∣bited Christians. p. 21.22, 549, 586, 650, 651, 652.
• Gregory the Great, turned Pagan Festivals ••nto Christian. p. 759.760. his cen∣sure of Playes and Pagan Authors. p. 78.79, 683, 848.
• Gregory Nazianz••n, his censure of Dan∣cing p. 225.279, 637. m. 771.772, 773. ••ace-painting. p. 217.890, 893. mens long and frizled hai••e. pag 189. mens putting on of womens ••pparell. pag. 169.170, 188, 189. lascivious attyres. p. 217.896. Players and Stage-playes. p. 136.163, 164, 169, 315, 338, ••39, 473, fol. 527.680. how Christs Nati∣vity must bee solemnized. pag. 771. 772, 773.
• Gregory Nyssen, his censure of Dancing, lascivious pictures, and Stage playes. p 337.338, 527. fol. 559.560 pag. 680. of Images and Gods Picture. pag. 898.
• Gregory the worker of Miracles, his ha∣tred of Playes caused a sudden pesti∣lence among Players and Play-haun∣ters. f. 559.560.
• Th. Gualensis his censure of Playes and laughter. p. 296.301, 689.
• Gualther his censure of Dancing, Players, Iesters, Playes, and Play-haunters, p. 45. m. 226.320, 479, 480, 481, 692, 737, 739.
• Guevara his censure of Stage-playes and Actors. p. 461.462, 696, 731.
• Gulielmus Parisiensis his censure of Stage-playes and Dancing. p. 688. his passage and reasons against mens putting on of womens apparell, or women of mens. p. 884.885, 886.
• Gunda her punishment for cutting her haire, and putting on mans apparell. p. 800.

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• Haire, womens cutting and frizling of their haire condemned by Deut. 22.5. 2 King. 9.30. Isay 3.18, 20, 22, 24. 1 Cor. 11.5, 6, 14, 15. 1 Tim. 29. Ti••. 2.2, 3, 4, 5. 1 Pet. 3.3, 4, 5. Rom. 1.26. Zeph. ••.8. Prov. 7.10, 13. Rev. 17.4. c. ••.8. by Councels, Fathers, and Chri∣stian Writers of all sorts as an unna∣turall, impudent whorish practise. pag. 184. to 206.217. m. f. 514, 799.805.879. to 890. Sparsim. 994. See Gulielmus Peraldus Summa Virtu••um ac Vitio∣rum. Tom. 2. Tit. de Superbia. c. 14. accordingly. Examples of women who have cut their haire, censured. Ibidem. Whores and Adulteresses pu∣nished heretofore by cutting their haire, which our women now make a fashion. p. 202.203, 204. Popish Nons cutting of their haire when they are admitted into Nonneries derived from the ancient punishment of Harlots, and Eustatius his Disciples. p. 202.203, 204. condemned. Ibidem.

• Mens wearing of long, false, curled haire & lovelockes, condēned by Deut. 22.5. Ezech. 44.20. Dan. 4.33. 1 Cor. 11.14, 15. Rev. 9.8. Num. 6.5. Ier. 7.29. Psal. 68.21. compared toge∣ther, by Councels, Fathers, and other Writers, as an effeminate unnaturall amorous practise, an incitation of lust, an occasion of Sodomy, and a practise of ancient Ganymedes and Sodomites. p. 186. to 203.209, 210, 211.426, 560, 799, 873, to 890.893. Ep. Ded. 2. & 3. To the Reader. See Guli. Peraldus qua supra. M. Bolton his com∣fortable directions for walking with God. p. 195.200. W. T. his Absoloms fall, wherein every Christian may as in a Mirror behold the vile and a∣bominable abuse of curled long haire so much now used in this our Realme pag. 8.9, 10, 17, 1••, 19. Arch-bishop Abbot his 18. Lecture upon Ionah. sect. 11. p. 570.571. Augustin. E••ar. in Psal. 32. Tom. 8. pars 1. pag. 24••. M. Edward Rainolds his sinfulnesse of sinne. p. 135. Quintil. Instit. l. 1. c. 15. agai••st mens long compt haire.
• Hauking, Hunting, yea keeping of Haukes and Hounds prohibited Clergie men by sundry Canons and Councels. p. 587. to 668. Sparsim.
• Haymo his censure of Stage-playes and Actors. p. 349.863. of making Gods Image. p. 900. m.
• Health-drinking, prohibited, condemned by Councels, Fathers, and others. pag. 22.596, 597, 598, 609, 614, 615, 656, 772, 780. m. 782.790. See my Healths sickne••se, with the Authors th••re quoted. H••abanus Maur••s Com. in Titum. c. 1. Tom. 5. pag. 502. E. Homil. in Dominicis diebus. Tom. 5. Op. p. 605. D. Iohannis Sarisberi∣ensis, De Nugis Curialium. l. 8. c. 6. Iuo Carnotensis. Decret. pars 6. c. 252 Master Gualther Hom. 9. in Haba••. p. 229.230. Innocentius 3. Operum Tom. 1. p 470. Gulielmus Stuckins An∣tiqu. Convivalium. lib. 3. thorowout. Hostiensis Summa. l. 1. Tit. de Tem∣pore ordinat. f. 51. Ioan. Langhecruci∣us. de Vita & Honestate Ecclesiastico∣rum. l. 2. c. 11. p. 250. &c. 12. p. 254.255 Gratian Distinct. 44. Polydor Virgil. de Invent. rerum. l. 3. c. 5. p. 215. D. Iohn White his Sermon at Pauls Crosse. March 24. 1615. sect. 16. Nathaniel Col•• his preservative against sinne. p. 380. M. Heildersham his 12. Lecture upon Iohn the 4. vers. 20. pag. 130. Barnaby Rich his Irish Hubbub. London 161••. p. 24.25. M. Edward Raynolds his sinful∣nesse of sinne. 1631. p. 125. who ex∣presly condemne the drinking and pledging of Healths, especially in Clergie-men, who ought by the Ca∣non Law to be deprived for it.
• Heaven, no Stage-playes there. pag. 964.965.
• Hecataeus Abderita his testimony of the Iewes wanting Images. p. 894.
• H••lena Constantine the Great his Mo∣ther, an English woman. p. 467.
• Heliodorus deprived of his Bi••hopprick•• for his amorous Bookes. p. 916.
• Helioga••alus censured. p. 278.710, 856.
• Henry the 3. the Emperor rejected Playes and Players. p. 471.
• Henry the 4. of England his Statute a∣gainst Rimers and Minstrels. p. 493.
• Henry the 8. his Statute against Mum∣m••rs, Vizards and Dice-play. p. 493.494. his expences upon Playes and Masques. p. 320. his Commissions for aboli••hing Images in Churches. pag. 903. m.
• Hen••y the 3. of France his Edicts against Stage-playes and dancing on Lords-dayes and Holi-dayes p. 715.
• Hercules censured for putting on wo∣mans

• apparell. pag. 888.
• Herod Agrippa smitten in the Theater by an Angell, and so dyed. fol. 554.555. See Freculphi Chronicon. Tom. 2. l. 1. c. 14. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 9. p. 408.
• Herod the Great, the first erecter of a Theater among the Iewes, who thereupon conspire his death. p. 486. f. 552.553. p. 555••
• Herodian his censure of Playes and Dan∣cing. p. 710.851.852, 853, 854, 855.
• Herodias, her dancing taxed: the Devill danced in her. p. 228.229. m. 232. m. 260.773. f. 534.
• Hi••ro punished Epica••mus for his wanton Verses. p. 921.
• Hierom his censure of mens long and curled haire. p. 188.340. of lascivious Musicke and Songs. p. 275.276, 340. of Images, specially of God. p. 898. m. of Players and Stage-playes. pag. 340. 680. of Dancing. p. 223. of reading Poets and prophane Authors. p. 78.79 114, 115, 917, 918, 925, 926, 927. his trance. p. 925.926. for Laymens rea∣ding the Scripture. p. 928. m. how Mi∣nisters ought to preach. p. 936.937.
• Hilarie his censure of Stage-playes, pag. 339.670. of making Gods Image. p. 900. m.
• Histories sophisticated by Players and Play-poets. p. 940.941.
• Hol••ot his censure of Stage-playes and Dancing. p. 229. m. 256.689.
• Holi-dayes, how to be spent and solemni∣zed. p. 240. to 244. f. 537.538, &c. 575 585, 586, 605. to 686. Sparsim. 743. to 783. exceedingly prophaned with dancing, dicing, drunkennesse and prophane pastimes. p. 222.232. to 250. Sparsim. 271.363. fo. 530. to 541.575. to 666.743. to 783.933. Dancing and Stage-playes prohibited on Holi-dayes by Councels, Fathers, and all Writers, Ibidem. See Dancing. & p. 913. Augmented by Papists who have tur∣ned Pagan Festivals into Christian. p. 751. to 761. See Haddon Cont. Oso∣rium. l. 3. f. 262.263, 264. Abridged by Trajan. f. 539.
• Ho••inesse becommeth Christians. pag. 63. 64, 528.
• Homilies of our Church against Images in Churches, &c. p. 286.901.902, 903.
• Honorius Augustodunensis censure of Stage-playes. pag. 505. m. 684. of Playerly Masse-priests. p. 113.114.
• Honorius the Emperour suppressed Sword-playes, p. 75.468.
• Bishop Hooper preached twice every day of the weeke; would have Bishops to preach once every day, would have two Sermons every Lords Day. his censure of those who complaine of two much preaching. f. 531. a profes∣sed Anti-Arminian. f. 532. condemned Dice-play. Epist. Ded. 1. yea, Altars too, of which he writes thus in his 3. Ser∣mon upon Ionah, before King Ed∣ward 6. An. 1551. p. 81. If questio•• now be asked, in there then no Sacrifices left to b•• done of Christian people? yea truely ••ut none other then such as ought to be done without Altars: and they be of 3. sorts: The first is the sacrifices of thankes-giving. Psal. 51. 17, 19. Amos 4.5. Heb, 13.15. Hos. 14 2. The 2. is benevolence and liberality to the poore, Mich. 6.8. 1 Cor. 16.1, 2, 2 Cor. 8.19. Hebr. 13.16. The third kinde of sacrifice is the mortifying of our owne bodies, and to dye from sinne. Rom. 12.1. Matth. ••1. Luk. 14. If we study not daily to offer these sacrifices to God, we be no Christian men. Seeing Christian men have no other sacrifices then these, which may and ought to be done without Altars, there should among Christians be no Altars. And therefore is was not without the great wisedome & knowledge of God, that Christ, his Apostles and the Primitive Church

• lacked Altars, for they knew that the use of Altars then was taken away. It were well then that it might please the Magistrates to turne the Altars into Tables, according to the first institution of Christ, to take away the false perswasion of the people they have of sacrifices to be done upon the Altars. For as long as the Altars remaine, both the ignorant people, and the ignorant and evill perswaded Priest will dreame alway••s of sa••rifice. Therefore were it best that the Magistrates remove all the mo∣numents and tokens of Idolatry and superstiti∣on. Then should the true Religion of God soo∣ner take place, &c. & Sermon 8. f. 150. A great shame it is for a Noble King, Emperor or Magistrate contrary to Gods Word to detaine or keepe from the Devill or his ministers, any of their goods or treasure, as the Candles, Images, Crosses, Vestm••••••s, Altars; for if they be kept in the Church as things ind••ffe••ent, at lengt•• they w••ll be maintained as things necessary. And doe not wee see his words prove true? Against the making of Gods I∣mage and s••ffring or erecting Im••ges in Churches. pag 902. m. of which hee writes thus in his•• Declaration of the second Commandement. London 1588. fol. 29. to 32. This Commandement ••ath 3. parts: The first taketh from us all liberty and licence, that we in no case represent or manifest the God invisible & incomprehensible with any Figur•• or Image, or represent him unto our sences that cannot be comprehended by the wit of man nor Angell. The s••cond part forbiddeth to honour any Image. The third part sheweth us, that it is no need to present God to us by any Image. Moses giveth •• reason of the first part, why no Image should be made, Deut. 4.15. Re∣member, saith 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to the people, that the Lord spake to thee in the vale of Oreb. thou ••eard∣est a voyce, but sawest no manner of si••ilitude, but onely a voyce be••rdest thou. Esay c. 40.18. & 449 &c. diligent••y sheweth what an absurdity and undecent thing it is to proph••re the Majestie of God incom••reh••nsible with a little blocke or stone; a spirit, with an Image. The like doth Paul in the 17. o•• th•• Acts. The text therefore forbiddeth all mann••r of Images that are made to expresse or represent Almighty God. The second par•• forbiddeth to honor any Image made: The first word ho∣nour signifieth, to bow head, legge, knee, or any part of the body unto them, as all those do•• (pray marke it) that say with good consci∣ence they may bee suffred in the Church of Christ, &c. Seeing th••n there is no Cōmandement in any of both Testaments, to have Images, but as you see the contrary; and also the univer∣sall Catholike and holy Church never used I∣mages, as the writings of the Apostles and Pro∣phets testifie, it is but an Ethnike v••rity and Gentile Idolatry, to say God and his Saints be honoured in them, when as all Histories testifi••, that in manner ••or th•• space of 500. yeeres af∣ter Christs Ascention, when the doctrine of the Gospell was most sincerely preached, was 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Image used, &c. Therefore S. Ioh•• biddeth us not onely beware of honouring of Images, but of the Images themselves. Thou shalt finde the originall of Images in no place of Gods Word, but in the writings of the Gentiles and Infidels, or in such that more followed their owne opinion and superstitious imaginations, than the authority of Gods Word. Herodo∣rus saith, that the AEgyptians were the first that made Images to represent their gods. And as the Gentiles ••ashioned their gods with what figures they lusted, so doe the Christians. To declare God to be strong they made ••im in the forme of a Lion, to be vigilant & diligent, in the forme of a Dog, &c. So doe they that would be accounted Christians, paint God and his Saints, with such pictures as they imagine in their fantasies. God, like an old man w••th a ••orie head, as ••hough his youth were past, which hath neither beginning nor ending &c. No difference at all bet••eene a Christian man and Gentile in this Idolatry, saving onely the name. For they thought not their Images to be God, but supposed that their Gods would

• be honoured that wayes, as the Christians doe. I write these things rather in contempt and hatred of this abominable Idolatry then to learne any Eng••ishman the truth, &c. The third part declareth, that it is no n••ed to shew God unto us by Images, and proveth the same with 3. reasons. First, I am the Lord thy God, that loveth thee, helpeth thee, defendeth thee, is present with thee: be••ieve and love m••, so shalt thou have no need to seeke me and my fa∣vourable presence in any Image. The second reason: I am a jealous God and cannot suffer thee to love any thing but in me and for me. I cannot suffer to be otherwise honoured than I have taught in my Tables and Testament The 3. reason is, that God revengeth the propha∣nation of his Divine Majesty, if it be trans••ri∣bed to any creature or Image, and that not only in him that committeth the Idolatry, but also in his posterity in the third and fourth genera∣tion, if they follow their Fathers Idolatry. Then to avoyd the ire of God and to obtaine his fa∣vour, we must use no Image to honor him with all. Gods Lawes expulseth and putteth Images out of the Church, then no mans lawes should bring them in. All which he thus seconds in his briefe and cleare Confession of the Chri∣stian Faith in an 10••. Articles, according to the Order of the Creed of the Apostles. London 1581. Artic. 79. & 87. I believe (write•• he) that to the Magistrate it doth appertaine, not onely to have regard unto the Common-wealth, but also unto Ecclesiasticall matters, to take away and to overthrow all Idolatry and false serving of God, and to ad∣vance the Kingdome of Christ, to cause the Word of the Gospell every where to be preach∣ed, and the same to maintaine unto death: to chasten also and to punish the false pro••hets which leade the poore people after Idols and strange gods, &c. I believe also that the begin∣ning of all Idolatry was the finding out and in∣vention of Images, which a••so were made to the great offence of the soules of men, and are as snares and traps for the feete of the ignorant to make them to ••all. Therefore they ought not to bee honoured, served, worshipped, neither to be suffred in the Temples or Churches, where Christian people doe meet together, to heare and understand the Word of God, b••t rather th•• same ought utterly to bee taken away and throwne downe, according to the effect of the 2. Comma••dement of God: and that ought to be done ••y the common authority of the Magi∣strate, and not by the private authority of every particular man For the wood of the Gallowes whereby justice is done, is blessed of God, but the Image made by mans hand is accursed of the Lord, and so is he that made it. And there∣fore we ought to beware of Images above all things. This was this Godly Martyrs faith concerning Images: this was the faith and doctrine of all our pious Mar∣tyrs and Prelates in King Henry the 8. King Edward the 6. Queene Maries, and Queene Elizabeths Raignes: this is the authorized doctrine both of the Articles and Homilies of our Church which every English Minister now subscribes to, and is enjoyned for to teach the people as the undoubted truth: Yea this was one of the Articles propounded by Do∣ctor Chambers, to which the reverend Bishop, Iewell, and all other yong Prote∣stant Students in both our Vniversities subscribed, in Edward the 6. and Queene Maries Raigne, Imagines & simulachra non esse in Templis habenda; ••osque gloriam Dei imminuere qui vel fuderint vel fabricati fu••∣rint vel finxerint, vel pinxerint, vel fabri∣canda & facienda locarint: as Doctor Hum∣fries De Vita & Morte Iuelli. pag. 43. in∣formes us: which I wish our moderne Innovators and Patrons of Images would remember.
• Horace his censure of Playes & Players. p. 370.452, 711, 834.
• Hybristica sacra, how solemnized. p. 204.
• Hylas the Player whipped. p. 459.
• Hypocrisie, a necessary concomit••nt of

• acting Playes, and a damnable sinne. pag. 156. to 161. 876. 877. Christ, his Apostles, the primitive and mo∣derne Christians unjustly taxed of it. p. 816. to 821.
• Hypocrites and Players, the same. p. 158. 159. 876.
• Hypolitus his censure of Stage-playes, and lascivious Songs. f. 565.566.

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• King Iames his Statute against propha∣ning Scripture and Gods Name in Playes. p. 109.110. his Statutes make Players Rogues, and Playes unlaw∣full pastimes. pag. 495.496. expresly condemned the making of God the Fathers Image or Picture. p. 901.
• Iason, the first introducer of Heathenish Playes among the Iewes. p. 548.549, 550, 552, 553.
• Ianus the author of New-yeeres gifts, &c. See Kalends and New-yeeres gifts.
• Idlenesse a dangerous mischievous sinne occasioned, fomented by Stage-playes. p. 141.471, 501, to 504.909, 947, 951. to 956.480, 1002.
• Idols and Devils parts and stories unlaw∣full to be acted; their Images, shapes and representations not to be made. p. 75. to 106.141, 176, 177, f. 550.551 552. pag. 547.865, 866, 890. to 904. The mentioning of their names and imprecations, adjurations, or excla∣mations by them, unlawfull. p. 32.33, 36, 77. to 89.891, 925. Things origi∣nally consecrated to them unlawfull. pag. 28. to 42.81. to 90. Stage-playes invented by, and consecrated unto I∣dols, and Devil-gods, who were courted with them in their Festivals. See Devils, Dancing, and Festivals. pag. 478.479, 482. fol. 558.559, p. 731, 732, 735.
• Idolatry a grand sinne; to which men are naturally prone. p. 27.58, 59, 80, 81, 82, 83. the mother of Stage-playes. p. 28. to 40.58, 59. f. 522.558, 559. pag. 546.547. The acting of an Idols part, or making his representatiō Idolatry. p. 89.90, 865, 866, 891, 892. The ve••y reliques and shadowes of it ••o be a∣voyded. p. 27.58, 59, 80, 81, 652, 891, 892. occasioned by Stage-playes and Play-poets p. 80.81.84, fol. 550.551, 55••. p. 650.651, 652.
• Iesuits act Christs passion, &c. in stead of preaching it p. 116.117, 765, 766, 767, 999. Gods Iudgement upon them for a prophane Play. f. 558. Some of them have condemned Stage-playes. pag. 996.997, &c.
• Iewes, condemned and rejected Stage-playes, and Idols shapes and vizards. pag. 466.552. to 556.714, 718, 723, 894, 981. had no Images in their Temples, and condemned the ve••y art of Imagery. p. 894. to 902. keept their Sabboth from Evening to Eve∣ning. p. 639.642.
• Ignatius the Martyr, condemned Dan∣cing on the Lords Day. p. 222.231. m.
• Ignatius Loyola, prohibited Terence to be read in Schooles. p. 917.
• Images and Pictures of God the Father, Sonne and holy Ghost unlawfull to be made, or set up in Churches. pag. 286.894. to 904. See Hooper. Images in Churches condemned by Fathers, Councels, Emperours, Protestant Churches and Writers, and by our owne English Statutes, Articles, In∣junctions, Homilies, Canons, ancient Bishops and Writers, Ibidem. See Bi∣shop Ie••els Reply to M. Harding. Ar∣tic. 14. p. 496. to 517. Rodericke Mors his complaint to the Parliament in King Henry the 8. dayes. cap. 19.24•• D. Iohn Ponet BB. of Winchester, his Apologie or Answer to Martyn. 1555.

• c••p. 6.7. pag. 74.84, 85. Archb shop Vshers An••wer to the Iesuits Chal∣lenge. pag. 495. to 514. Edit. ult. & a short Description of Antichrist. 1555. pag. 26. Demolished at Zuricke, and Basil, and here in England by Henry the 8. Edward the 6. and Queene Eliza∣beth. p. 903. m. Images condemned by the Persians, Syrians, Scythians, and Lybians of old. Origen. Cont. Cel∣sum. lib. 7. fol. 96. none suffred in the Temples and Synagogues of the Iewes, Turkes, Sarazens, Mores, Mos∣chovites, or barbarous Heathen Na∣tions of Asia, Africa and Europe now. Haddon. Cont. Osorium. lib. 3. f. 254. condemned by Ma••omet in his Alcoran. Edit. Lat. Bibliandri. 1550. p. 19.105, 126, 144, 152. & shall Christi∣ans, shall Protestants suffer, applaud, erect them, when as these condemne them? See Thomas Waldensis. Tom. 3. Tit. 19. De Religiosorum domibus. cap. 150. to 162.
• Imitation of Pagans and their customes unlawfull. p. 18. to 23.730. to 734. See Pagans.
• Impudency a dangerous sinne occasioned by Stage-playes. p. 441.512. to 516.
• Infamous to act Playes. See Acting, Play∣ers. p. 412.429, 841. to 860.
• Intention of Play-haunters. p. 943. to 947.
• Inventions of Pagans, how farre lawfull and unlawfull. p. 16. to 42.
• Iosephus his censure of Stage-playes and Theaters p 466.467, 553, 554, &c. of Images. p. 894.895.
• Isiodo•• Hispa••e••sis, his censure of Dice-play•• Epist. Dedic. 1. of Stage-playes and Theaters. p. 349. f. 524.525. pag. 562.583, 757, 758. m. of New-yeeres gifts. p. 757.758. m. of reading pro∣phane Writers p. 78.79, 915, 916.
• Isiodor Pelufiota his censure of Playes and Players. p 477.795. of reciting hu∣man Authors in Sermons. pag. 937 938.
• Isocrates his censure of Playes and Play∣ers. p. 121.450, 703.
• Iren••eus his censure of Players & Playes. p. 158. m. 669.
• Iudgements of God upon Play-poets, Players, Play-haunters•• f. 550.552. to 565.
• Iulian the Apostate his Edi••t against Ministers resort to Playes or Ale∣houses. p. 461.665.
• Iulius Messalla his expence on Playes. p. 315.322.
• Iuo Carnotensis his censure of Playes, Players, acting in womens apparell, &c. 665.684, 846, 886, 906.
• Iunius Mauricus his censure of Playes. p. 458.
• Iustinian his Edicts against Dicing, Play∣ers, Sword-playes, Stage-playes, which hee stiles the Devils pompes. p. 469.562, 563, 656. to 663. his law for divorcing of Play-haunting wives. p. 391.661, 662.
• Iustin Martyr his censure of Images. pag. 896. of lascivious Musicke. p. 275.
• Iustin the Historian his censure of Playes and Dancing. p. 709.710.
• Iuvenal his censure of Players, Playes, Play-haunters and Dancers. pag. 249. 250, 319, 370, 452, 843, 852. m. 859. 860.

K

• Kalends, their observation, especially of the first of Ianuary, prohibited. p. 19. to 23.197, 198, 429, 430, 580, 581, 583, 755, 756, 780, 752.
• Kings most honoured when God is best served by their subjects. p. 644. have suppressed Playes and Dicing, and exi∣led Players. p 455. to 472.656. to 665.703. to 713.725, 870. infamous for them to act or frequent Playes, or fa∣vour

• Players. pag. 250.451, 428, 429, 459, to 47••. f. 557.558. p. 707. to 711.734. to 744.848. to 858.897. A good King and bad Councellors, worse then an ill King and good Councel∣lers. p, 153. what makes Kings evill. f. 547. Their life ought to bee exem∣plary. p. 734.735, 741.
• Kissing in Dances and Playes dangerous p. 166.243, 386.
• Knights prohibited to act, to dance, or come upon the Stage. p 459.860, 861, 862.

L

• Laberius, his censure of his Play-acting. p. 860.861.
• Lacedemonians prohibited Stage-playes, and lascivious Musicke. p. 121.122, 288 455, 713, 921, 839.
• L••ctantius his censure of Images. p. 896.897, 898•• m. of acting in womens ap∣parell. p. ••88. of Stage-playes and A∣ctors. p. 169.180, 334, 335, 336, 473.670.
• Ioan. Langhe••rucius his censure of Health-drinking, Stage playes, acting of Aca∣demicall Enterludes, and acting in womens apparell•• p. 596.597, m. 695. 864, 865, 866.
• Lasciviousnesse condemned: a necessary concomitant and effect of Playes, and Play-acting. p. 161 to 178.332. to 446.
• Bishop Latymer his censure of Dice-play. Epist. Dedic. 1. of dancing and pro∣phaning Lords-dayes. f. 535. of Ima∣ges. p. 902. accused of sedition. pag. 8••5.
• Laughter, prophane, profuse, excessive, censured. p. 290. to 298.123, 403, 404. Christ never laughed. 294.403, 404. this life no time of laughter but of ••eares. p. 293.294, 404. See Chrysost. Hom. 12. in Collos. 4. an excellent discourse to this purpose: occasioned by Playes. p. 175.290. to 304.403, 404.
• Laurell, Christians prohibited to dresse their houses with it. p. 21.581, 756, m. 770.771, 772. See Tertul. de Corona militis. lib. c. 11.12.
• Laymen enjoyned by Councels, Fathers, and God himselfe to read the Scrip∣tures diligently. Epist. Dedicat. ••. pag. 585.924. to 932. are spirituall Priests•• and ought to be as holy as the Cler∣gie. p. 410.647, 648.
• Leo the Emperour his Edict for the san∣ctifying of the Lords Day and sup∣pression of Stage-playes p. 469.470.
• Lewis the 9. of France his Edict against Players, Play-houses, and Dice-hou∣ses. p. 870.
• Leucippus, his effeminacy in haire and apparell censured. p. 883.885.
• Livie his censure of Stage-playes. p. 449.450. f. 560. p. 705.
• Lodovicus the Emperor his Edict against Clergie-mens resort to Playes, &c. p. 715.
• Lodovicus Arch-bishop of Magdeburge, his death, f. 557.
• Lodovicus Vives, his censure of Players, Playes, Play-bookes, Dancing, and Popish Enterludes. pag. 114.115, 134, 226. fol. 554. pag. 691.916.
• London Magistrates suppressed Playes, Play-houses and Dice-houses. p. 491.492.
• Lords Day, (exceedingly prophaned by Stage playes, Masques and Dances, which are prohibited on it by Coun∣cels, Fathers, Imperiall Lawes, our owne English Statutes, Homilies, In∣junctions, and sundry other Writers,) how it ought to bee spent and sancti∣fied p. 13.22, 240. to 24••.271, 363, 468, 469, 470, 491, 530. to 541.489, 554, 556, 575, 576, 615. to 663. Spar∣sim. 715.716, 913, 946. See Dancing, Holi-dayes. & Thomas Waldensis. Tom. 3. Tit. 17. cap. 140.141, 142 Playes,

• Masques and Dancing unlawfull on it, Ibidem. & p. 575.576, 996. and on Lords Day and Saturday nights. pag. 12.13, 40, 645, 646. It begins at eve∣ning, not at morning or midnight; proved at large by Councels, Fathers, and others. p. 638. to 646. Hence Iuo carnotensis. Decret pars 6. cap. 71. Gratian Distinct. 75. and all Canonists on this place of his, upon the words of Pope Leo Epist 81. cap. 1. conclude thus, that the Lords Day begins at Evening: Non passim (say they) di••bus omnibus sa∣cerdotalis vel levitica ordinatio celebretur, sed post diem Sabbati ejus{que} noctis quae in prima Sabbati luc••s••it, exordia consecrandi deligantur. Quod ejusdem observantae erit∣si mane ipso Dominico die continuato Sab∣bati jej••nio celebretur, à quo tempore praece∣dentis noctis initia non recedunt. Quod ad diem resurrectionis (sicut etiam in Pascha domini declaratur) pertinere non est dubi∣um, &c. His qui consecrandi sunt nunquam benedictio nis in die Dominicae resurrectio∣nis tribuatur, cui à vespere Sabbati initium constat ascribi. Dies Dominica initium ha∣bet à vespere Sabbati; & vespera praece∣dentis noctis trahitur ad diem sequentem, ut sive de vesp••re in Sabbato, sive de mane in Domini••o ordines conferantur semper in die Dominico videantur conferri. Hence also Hostiensis. Sum. lib. 2. Tit. de Ferijs. fol. 149 Baptista Trovomala in his Sum∣ma Rosella Tit. Feriae sect. 4.5. Summa Angelica. Tit. Dies sect. 1. Lindwood Constit. provin•• lib. 2. Tit de Ferijs. ••ol. 74. with all other Canonis••s Tit de Ferijs, & Ioannis de Burgo Pupilia oculi pars 9. cap. 6. De Ferijs. D••E. lay downe this for an infallible maxime. Quod abstinendū est à servilibus operibus omni die Dominica ab¦hora vespertina diei Sabbati inchoando, non ipsam horam praeveniendo. Quod feriatio∣nem tenere debemus à vespera in vesperam. Quod debemus festum incipere, quantum ad feriationem à vespera in vesperam; scilicet ab ultima parte diei praecedentis seu vigiliae. Quod dies diversis modis incipit & desinit: nam quoad celebrationem divinarum, consi∣deratur de vespera in vesperam: quoad ju∣dicia, de mane in vesperam, & sic de luce in lucem: sed quoad contractus, de media nocte in mediam noctem: And this hath beene the received resolution of all former ages, which should over-b••llance all new opinions. See Polydor Virgil. De Invent. Rerum. lib. 2. cap. 6. for the be∣ginning and ending of dayes.
• Lovelockes, bushes of vanity whereby the Devill leads and holds men captive. Epistle to the Reader: provocations to lust and unnaturall lewdnesse, in use among Sodomites and Pagans of old, ••nd none else. p. 188. to 195.209, 210, 211, 882, 883, 888. See Haire.
• Lucas Tudensis against making the picture of the Trinity. p. 900 m.
• Luxury a dangerous sinne, occasioned by Stage-playes. p•• 508. to 513.
• Lycurgus prohibited Playes. p. 455.
• Lyd••ans effeminated by Musicke, Dan∣cing, Playes, and idlenesse. p. 288.
• Lyes, condemned: frequent in Playes. p. 106.107, 108, 837, 838.
• Lysima••hus his Court censured. p. 856.

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• Macarius AEgyptius his censure of Playes and Players. p. 45. m. f. 556. p. 670.
• Macrobius his censure of Dancing and Play-acting. p. 245.246, 129, 704, 860, 861. his testimony of the Saturnalian Feasts. p 751.752.
• Macro his advice to Caligula. p. 741.
• Magicke Bookes censured p. 917.
• Magistrates ought to suppresse Players, Playes, and Play-houses, and have anciently done so. p. 448. to 495.787.
• Mahomet his censure of Dice-play. p 665.
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• Manners and mindes of people corrupted by Playes. p. 329. to 501.
• Marriages; Dancing and Playes at them prohibited, condemned by Fathers and Councels. See Dancing: & Saint Chrysostom. Hom. 12. in Colos. 2. Tom. 4. Col. 1210. to 1214. Hom. 20. in Ephes. 5. Tom. 4. Col. 1009. where hee writes thus. In matrimonio omnia oportet esse plena temperantia & modestia, gravi∣tate & ho••esta••••. Contrarium autem video, saltantes tanquam camelos, tanquam mulos. Quid facis ô homo? quid ludibria illa, quid monstra in••u∣cis? Omnino turpe est & indecorū, viros molles & saltantes & omnem pompam Satanicam domum introdu∣core. Quando unguentum componi∣tis nihil malè olens sinitis appropin∣quare. Matrimonium est unguentum; cur caeni faetorem inducis in compo∣sitionem unguenti? Quid dicis? s••l∣tar virgo, & nō eam pudet suae aequa∣lis? oport•••• enim ipsam hac ••sse ho∣nestiorem & graviorem, ex ulna enim egressa est, non ex palaestra, &c. Ne transuehas & in pompam ducas virgi∣nitatem. An non sunt haec probrum & dedecus? Sunt. Probrum enim & dedocus est se indecore gerere etiamsi sit Regis filia, etiamsi serva si•• virgo, &c. The ••rum enim non est matri∣monium, est mysterium, seu sacra∣mentum, & rei magnae typus. Sacra∣mentum inquit, hoc magnum est, ego au••em dico in Christo & Ecclesia. Ecclesiae est typus & Christi, & salta∣tri••es introducis? Si ergo, inquis, n••̄∣que v••rgines saltant, neque quae nup∣serunt, quis saltabit? Nullus. Salta∣tionis enim quaenam est necessitas? In mysterijs Graecorum sunt saltatio∣nes: in nostris autem, silentium, ho∣nesta gravitas, pudor & modestia. Magnum peragitur mysterium, foras meretrices saltatrices, foras prophani, &c. Haec vobis non temere dicta sunt, sed ut vos nec nuptijs, nec saltationibus, nec choris adsitis Satanicis. Vide enim quid invenerit Diabolus. Nam quoniam a scena & ijs quae illic sunt turpia & inde∣cora, ipsa natura abduxit mulieres, quae sunt theatri abduxit in gynaecium, mol∣les inquam, se•• pathicos & meretrices. Hanc pestem invexit lex nuptialis, imo vero non lex nuptialis, absit, sed lex no∣strae mollitiei. Quid ergo dico oportere? Omnia tu••pia cantica quae sunt Satani∣ca, inhonestas cantilenas, immundorū juvenum circuitiones auferre à matri∣monio,, & haec poterant castigare spon∣sam & modestam reddere; statim n. apud se considerabit, Papae; qualis est hi•• vir! est philosophus; hanc vitam nihili ducit, ad procreandos liberos & educandos me domi duxit, & ad domum custodier d••m. Ex his ipsis ostendit mentem suam, nullo horum delecta••i, ne{que} unquam concessu∣rum ut siant saltationes & can••ntur im∣pudica cantica. Sed haec sponsae sunt in∣jucunda ad primum us{que} & secundum diem, non autem deinceps; sed & maxi∣ma•• ••apiet voluptatem se ab omni suspi∣cione liberans. Nam qui neque tibias neque saltantes, nequ•• fractos ••antus su∣stinuerit, idque 〈◊〉〈◊〉 nuptiarum, vix ipse in animum induxerit ut turpe ali∣quid unquam aut faciat aut dicat. Sed videntur res quidem in••ifferens quae fi∣unt circa matrimonium. Sunt autem causae magnorum malorum. Omnia sunt plena iniqui••ate. Turpitudo & stulti∣loquium & scurrile verbum, inquit, ex¦ore vestro non exeat. Omnia autem illa sunt turpitudo, & stultiloquium & scur∣rilitas, non leviter, sed cum intentione. Ars enim est hoc, & magnam affert lau∣dem ijs qui eam exercent. Ars facta sunt peccata. Non leviter & tom••re ea tra∣ctamus sed adhibito studio & scientia, &

• de caetero Diabolus est harum rerum Dux & Imperator. Vbi n. ebrietas & lascivia, ubi lermo obscaenus & saltatio, ade••t Diabolus sua afferens. Cum his convivans dic quaeso, Christi mysterium peragis, & Diabolum invocas? Me fortè existimatis gravem & importunū. Nam hoc quos{que} est multae perversitatis, quod qui increpat ludibrio habetur tanquam austerus. Nonne auditis Paulum dicen∣tem. Quicquid faciatis sive comedatis, sive bibatis, sive aliquid faciatis, omnia ad gloriam Dei facite? Vos autem ad maledicentiam & ignominiam. Non auditis Prophetam dicentem. Servite domino in timore, & exultate ei in tre∣more? Vos autem diffundimini & luxu diffluitis. An non vero licet etiam tu∣tò laetari? Vis audire pulchros modos? Maximè quidem ne oporteret quidem. Sed me dimitto, & me tibi accommodo. Si velis, non audias Satanicos modos, sed spirituales. Vis videre saltantes? Vi∣de chorum Angelorum. Et quomodo fieri potest ut videam? Si haec abegeris, veniet Christus quoque ad has nuptias. Si adsit autem Christus, adest etiam cho∣rus Angelorum. Si velis, nunc quoque faciet miracula sicut & tunc. Faciet nunc quoque aquam vinum & multo admira∣bilius. Diffluentem & dissolutam con∣vertet laetitiam & cupiditatem, & trans∣feret ad spiritualem. Hoc est ex aqua vinum f••cere. Vbi sunt Tibicines (pray marke it) nequaquam est Christus. Sed & si fuerit ingressus, eos primum eijcit, & tunc fa∣cit miracula. Quando itaque es facturus nuptias ne domos obeas, specula & ve∣••tes commodato accipiens; res n. non fit ad ostentationem, neque filiam addu∣cis ad pompam: sod ijs quae in ea sunt domum exhiler••ns, voco vicinos, amicos & cognatos. Quos nosti quidem bonos & probos, eos voca, & ut ijs quae adsunt contenti sint admone. Ex ijs qui sunt ex Orchestra, adsit nullus. Illic n. est sumptus vacuus & indecorus. Ante alios omnes voca Christum. Orna sponsum non aureis ornamentis, sed mansuetudine & pudore & consuetis vestibus. Pro quovis mundo aureo & implicaturis & intexturis, induens pu∣dorem & verecundiam, & quod illa non quaerat. Nullus sit tumultus, nulla perturbatio. Vocetur sponsus, accipiat virginem. Prandia & caenae non sint plena ebrietatis, sed satietate cum voluptate. Videamus quam mul∣ta ex hoc sunt bona, quando viderim{us}, ex ijs quae nunc fiunt nuptijs, si nup∣tiae & non potius pompae sunt dicen∣dae, quot mala? Illic enim Christus, hic Satanas. Illic tristitia, hîc cura. Il∣lic voluptas, hîc dolor. Illic sumptus, hic nihil tale. Illic probrum & dede∣cus, hîc modestia. Illic invidia, hîc nulla plane est invidia: Illic ebrietas, hîc salus, hîc temperantia. Haec autem omnia cogitantes, hactenus ma∣lum sistamus, ac cohibeamus, ut Deo placeamus, & digni habeamur qui consequamur bona quae sunt promis∣sa ijs qui ipsum diligunt, gratia & be∣nignitate Domini nostri Iesu Christi. The whole Homilies are worth the reading, but thus much onely I thought good to insert to controll the marriage disorders of our lascivi∣ous age.
• Marbachius his censure of Vizards, dis∣guises, wanton apparell, and acting in womens apparell. p. 889.890.
• Mariana the Iesuit his Book against, and censure of Stage-playes, Players, and Theaters. p. 695.996. to 1000.
• Marius his censure of Dicers, of Players. p. 450.
• Martiall his Poems censured. p. 792.916, 917.
• Masse turned into a Stage-play, and

• priests oft-times into Actors. p. 112. to 116.573. to 668. Sparsim•• pag. 762. to 767.877, 935, 999. Sacrilegious unto Christ and his merits. p. 759.
• Massilienses prohibited and condemned Playes and idlenesse. p. 65.445, 446, 480, 713, 920, 839.
• May-games, and May-poles derived from the ancient prohibited Heathen Ma∣jumae. p. 253. m. 807. m. & from the Floralian Feasts and Enterludes of the Pagan Romanes, which were so∣lemnized on the first of May. See Ovid Fastorum. lib. 4. pag. 81. Mille ve∣nit varijs florum dea nexa coronis. Scena joci morem liberioris habet. Exit & in Majas Festū Florale Kalen∣das. & lib. 5. pag. 86. t•• 92. Mater a∣des florum ludis celebranda jocosis Incipis Aprili, transis in tempora Maij: Alter te fugiens, cùm venit, alter habet. Cum tua sint, cedantque tibi confinia mensùm, Convenit in laudes ille vel ille tuas. Circus in hunc exit clamata{que} palma Theatris, &c. Dic Dea, respondi, ludorum quae sit origo. &c. Convenêre Patres: & si bene floreat annus. Numinibus nostris annua festa vovent. Annui∣mus votis, Consul nunc consule ludos. Posthumio Lenas persoluêre mihi. Quaerere conabar quare l••scivia ma∣jor, His foret in ludis liberiorque jo∣cus; Sed mihi succurrit numen non esse severum, Aptaque delicijs mune∣ra ferre Deam. Tempora sutilibus cinguntur tota coronis, Et latet in∣jecta splendida mensa rosa. Ebrius incinctis philyra conviva capillis, Sal∣tat, & imprudens utitur arte meri•• E∣brius ad durum formosae limen ami∣cae Cantat: habens unctae mollia ••er∣ta comae. Nulla coronata peraguntur seria fronte: Nec liquidae vinctis flore bibuntur aquae, &c. Bacchus a∣mat flores; Baccho placuis••e coro∣nam Ex Ariadnaeo sidere nosse potes. Scena lenis decet hanc: non est, mihi credite, non est, Illa cothurnatas inter habenda Deas. Turba quidem cur hos celebret meretricia ludos, Non est de tetricis, non est de magna professis, Vult sua plebeio sacra patêre choro, &c. See Alexander ab Alexand. Genial. Dierum lib. 6. cap. 8. Godwin, his Roman Antiquities lib. 2. sect. 2. cap. 3 pag. 87. Polydor Virgil, de Invent. Rerum. lib. 4. c. 14. Bulengerus De Theatro. lib. 1. cap. 50. pag. 296. to the like purpose. He who shall but seriously consider this man∣ner of celebrating these Floralian Festivals, and paralell them with our May-games; will soone conclude as Polydor Virgil doth in expresse tearmes (De Invent. Rerum. lib 5. cap. 2) that our May-games, Maying, and May-pole•• (adorned commonly with Flow∣rie Garlands) had their originall from these Floralian Feastivals, or the Heathen Majumae; and that there∣fore Christians ought wholy to aban∣don them, as they are expresly enjoy∣ned both by Imperiall Edicts, Coun∣cels and Fathers. See here, p. 807. m. 575.576, 581, 583, 584, 587, 755, 756. m. (Pope Martyns Decree) pag. 750, 770, 780, 20, 21, 22, 23. Tertullian De Corona Militis lib. Polydor Virgil. De Invent. Rerum. lib. 5. cap. 2. M. Stubs his Anatomy of Abuses. p 109.110. (who particularly condemne both May-games and May-poles:) and Francis de Croy his first Conformity•• cap. 19.20. accordingly.
• Menander the Com••dian his death•• fol. 553.
• Ministers and Clergie-men, prohibited to Dance, Card or Dice, or to behold Dancers, Carders, Dicers, in publike or private, or to suffer them in their

• houses, to act or behold either pub∣like or private Enterludes: to play at any dishonest or unlawfull games: to disguise themselves: to Hauke, Hunt, or to keepe Haukes or Hounds: to haunt or keepe Tavernes or Ale∣houses, or to enter into them but on∣ly in case of necessity when they tra∣vell: to begin or pledge any Healths; to frequent or make any riotous Feasts; or to weare costly apparell. p. 150.469, 739.933. to 938.979, 980. fol. 528. pag. 573. to 668. Sparsim. See Vincent•• Speculum. Hist. lib. 27. cap. 39. 40.47, Summa Angelica Clericus. 11. & all Canonists. De Vita & Honestate Cleri∣corum: conclude the like. Ought to suppresse and disswade others from Dancing, Dicing, Health-drinking, or resort to Playes. Ibidem. Scurrilous Iesting, Dancing, Dicing, Play-acting, or Play-haunting Ministers to bee suspended and deprived. Ibidem. Their duties. Ibidem. Ought not to meddle with secular affaires; not to beare se∣cular offices. Ibidem. Ought to be re∣sident on their Cures, and to preach twice a day. fol. 531. pag. 639.623, 624. Ought to be grave in their ge∣stures and speeches, nor Player-like. p. 933. to 938. Ought not to read lascivious Poems, or prophane Au∣thors, not to stuffe their Sermons with them, p. 70.79, 915. to 939. No Players or Actors of Playes to bee made Ministers, or to take Orders, f. 528. p. 846.847, 934, 935.
• Minucius Felix, his censure of Playes and Players, p. 336.337, 558, 670. of Images. p. 896.897.
• Modestie and shamefastnesse banished by Playes. fol. 512. to 516. their prayse. Ibidem.
• Molanus his justification of prophane sa∣crilegious Popish Enterludes. p. 763. 764, 765.
• Monkes many of thē Sodomites, Whore∣masters, Epicures. pag. 213.760, 761, 762, 880, 881. See Vincentij Specu∣lum. Hist. lib. 27. c. 29. to 58. lib. 28. cap. 6. to 19. cap. 90. to 101. Women-Monkes. pag. 184.185, 201, 202, 203, 204, 880, 881.
• Morice-dances censured. p. 20. See Dances and May-games.
• Moscovites how they keepe their Christ∣mas. pag. 782.
• Moses prohibited Playes and Enterludes. why. pag. 555.
• Mourning for other mens sinnes, a duty. p. 291. to 295. This life a life of mour•• Ibid. & p. 967. to 973. See Chrysost. Hom. 12. in Colos. accordingly.
• Multitude no argument of goodnes. pag. 787.788, 442.
• Mummeries and Mummers condemned. p. 493.494. fol. 51••.891. to 904.
• Murthers occasioned oft by Playes. fol. 516. to 520.
• Musicke, lawfull, usefull. p. 274. lascivious effeminate Musicke, unlawfull. p. 273. to 290.394.395. See Vincentij Speculū. Hist. lib. 29. cap. 144. M. Northbrooke his Treatise against vaine Playes, &c. fol. 39.40, 41. Agrippa De V••nitate Scient. cap. 64. M. Stubs his An••tomy of Abu∣ses. p. 128.129, 130, &c. Church-mu∣sicke ought to be grave, serious, pious, not quaint, delicate, or lascivious; which abuses of it are censured. p. 276 to 288. & Reformatio Legu•••• Ecclesiast. ex Authoritate Regis. Hen. ••. & Edw. 6. Lo••di••i 1571. Tit. De Divin••s Offi••••••. c. 5. ••. 43. grounded on, and authorized by the Statutes of 25. H••••ry 8. c. 19.27. H••••••y S. c. 15. &. 3. & 4. Edward 6. c. 11. which proscribos this rule in 〈…〉〈…〉. In divinis 〈◊〉〈◊〉 recitandis & Psalmis 〈◊〉〈◊〉, ministri & clerici diligent••r Doe c••gitare ••ebent, non solum ••se Doum la••dari oportere, sed

• alios etiam hortatu & exemplo & observa∣tione illorum, ad cundem cultu•• adducendos esse. Qua propter partite voces & distincte pronuncient, & cantus sit illorum clarus & aptus, ut ad auditorum omnis fensum, & intelligentiam perveniant. Ita{que} vibratam i••am & operosam musicani, quae figurata dicitur, auferri placet, quae sic in multitudi∣nis auribus tumultuatur, ut saepe linguam non possit ipsam loquent••m intelligere. (See Q. Eliz. Injunctions. Injunct. 49, accor∣dingly.) Which kinde of quaint and delicate Church-musicke is largely censured, by Hugo Parisiensis. lib. 2. de Claustro Animae, by Vincentius Beluacen∣sis. Speculum Histor. lib. 27 c. 45. by Iohn Bale his Image of both Churches, on Rev. c. 18 sect. 10.11 by William Wragh∣ton his Hunting and Rescuer of the Romish Fox. fol. 12.59, 125, 126. by Gualtherus Haddon Contr. Osorium lib. 3. fol. 263.264. & M. Northbrooke against Dice-play. fol. 40.41. Musicke, when, why, and by whom brought into the Church. p. 277. to 288.

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• Name of God not to bee used in Playes, in which it is oft prophaned. pag. 108. to 112.
• Names of Idols not to be named, invoca∣ted, &c. by Christians. p. 32.33, 36, 77, 78. to 88.584, 891, 926.
• Naked Harlots not to be looked on. pag. 406. dancing naked censured. p. 246. 251. See Lampridij Commodus. p. 90.
• Nero censured, and his death conspired for his singing, acting, dancing, and Masquing on the Stage. p•• 451.465. fol. 517.555. pag. 707.736, 737, 843, 849. to 853. Suppressed Playes and Players. p. 460.516.517, 714.
• Nerva prohibited Sword-playes. pag. 75. 468.
• New-yeeres gifts, and the observation of New-yeeres day, condemned as a Pa∣gan custome, by Councels, Fathers, and others. pag. 20. 36, 197, 198, 429, 430, 580, 581, 583, 755, 756, 757, 781. Spent in Stage-playes, Mummeri••s and dances by Pagans. Ibidem. a pub∣like fast enjoyned on it to bewaile the abominations thereon committed by Pagans. Ibidem.
• Night, not to be spent in Playes, in Dan∣cing, Masques, and such disorders, but in sleepe, in prayer, in devotion: night disorders censured. p. 255.360, 645, 646, 746, 747, 754, 755, 848, 849, 946, 429.
• Nilus his censure of Playes. pag. 349.385, 682.
• Non-residency censured by 55. severall Councels. p 623.624. by sundry Ca∣nonicall Decrees and Canonists. Ibid. See the Canonists in their ••itles, De Clericis Nonresidentibus. & My Anti-Arminianisine. Tit. Bisho••s in the Table, to∣gether with M. Whetenhall his Discourse of the Abuses now in question in the Churches of Christ. p. 170 182.192, 202, 203, 206, 208. D. Taylor his Com∣mentary upon Titus. c. 3. vers, 12. p. 726•• to 730. Doctor Wille•• on the 1 Sam cap. 14 28. Master Robert Bolton, of True Hap∣pinesse. pag. 111. Master William Atter∣soll on Philemon. Master Ieremy Dike his Cav••at to Archîppus on Col. 4.17. London 1619. of late: Bishop Hooper on the 8. Commandement, his first Sermon upon Ionas. fol. 22. Sermon 3. fol. 69.70. Sermon 5. fol 112.119, Bishop Latymer his 4. Sermon of the Plough. Master William Tyndall in his Workes. London 1573. pag. 20.102, 135, 136, 267, 289, 360, 373. Master Roger Hutchinson in his Image of God, 1550. Epistle Dedicatory to Archbi∣shop Cranmer, & f. 76.77, 86, 87, 173, 174, 175. and his 1. Sermon of the Lords Supper. 1552. Reformatiole∣gum

• Ecclesiasticarum fol. 31. cap. 12.14.15. Bernard Gilpin his Sermon be∣fore King Edward 1552. p. 8. to 26. See in Ezechiell Woodward, his Dowayes Drosse, Epistle to his revolted Coun∣try-men, a story of Gilpin against Non-residency. Haddon Contr. Osorium. l. 3. f. 297. The ship of Fooles. p. 58.59, 60. Thomas Beacon his Preface to his Workes, to the Archbishops and Bi∣shops of England, & his Catechisme. f. 361. ••ulielmus Peraldus Summa Vir∣tutum & Vitiorū. Tom. 2. Avaritia•• p. 58.59, 60. Petrus Binsfeldius de Iustitia & Injustitia Clericorum in Ordine ad Beneficia. c. 3. in his Enchiridion Theologiae. 1609. pag. 489. to 506. Summa Angelica Clericus 7. Ambrose Serm. 7. & 9. Tom. 5. p. 5. & 6. G. H. Hierom. Epist. 1. c 7.8. Epist. 3. c. 5. E∣pist. 4. c. 1. Epist. 83. c. 2. Prosper de Vita Contempl. l. 1. c. 13. to 35. Augustinus de Pastoribus. lib. Tom. 9. Chrysostom. de Sacerdotio. lib. 6. Tom. 5. Operum•• Greg. Magnus Pastoraliū. lib. & Hom. 47. in Evangelia. Bernard. Hom. 77. Super Cant. De Consideratione. l. 2. c. 4. Declamationes, & ad Pastores. Sermo. Hildebertus. Epist. 46. Bibl. Pa∣trum. Tom. 12. pars 1. p. 328. Hinc mari Rhemensis. Epi••t. 14. Bibl. Pa∣trum Tom 9. pars 2. p. 47. Pe••rus Ble∣sensis. Epist. 148. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 12. pars 2. p. 824. Athanasius Constanti∣••nsis, De Necess••ria Episc. Residentia. Epist. 8. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 13. pag. 486•• to 492. Cyprian Epist. l. 1. Epist. 2. 3•• 9. & l. 3. Epist. 15. BB. Iewell on the Thesa••onians. p 406.407. with sun∣dry other Commentators on the 8. Commandement, on Ezech. 34.2. to 18.22, 23•• c. 44.8. Ier 23.1. to 5. c. 3.15. c. 6.3. c. 31.10 cap. 50.6, 7. Zech. 11.4, 5, 7, 8, 15. M••l 2.6, 7, 8. Prov. 27.23. Isay 40.11. c. 54, 9, 10, 11, 12. Ps. 78.71, 72. Gen. 31.38, 39, 40. 1 Sam. 17.28, 34, 35. Luk. 2.8. Ioh. 10.3. to 14. c. 21.15, 16, 17. Acts 20.18, 20, 28. cap. 15.35, 36. Rom. 12.7, 8. 1 Cor. 9.7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27. 2 Cor. 12.14, 15. Phil. 2.20, 21, 26, 30. Col. 4.17. 1 Thes. 2.7, 8, 9. c. 5.12. 2 Thes. 3.10, 11. 1 Tim. 3.1, 2, 5. c. 4.6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. c. 5.17, 18. c. 6.17. 2 Tim. 1.6, 11. c. 2.1, 2, 4, 14, 24, 25. cap. 3.16, 17. c. 4.1, 2, 5, 7, 17. Titus 1.5, 9. c. 2, ••. to the end. c. 3.1. to 12. Heb. 10.24, 25. c. 13.7, 17. 1 Pet. 4.10, 11. c. 5.1, 2, 3. 2 Pet. 1.12, 13, 14, 15. Iude 3.5. all which condemne Non-residency, and Non-residents, who act their parts in Hell. pag. 13. and goe to Heaven by their Curates, to Hell by themselves. pag. 88. For preaching and feeding of their flocks with care & con∣science being a personall duty imposed on them by God himselfe, as the very essence of their function, they can no more discharge it by a Substitute, then themselves or Laymen can receive the Sacrament, pray, heare, read the Word, or serve God by a Deputy, neg∣lecting all these duties themselves. And if cures may bee well discharged by a poore stipendiary Curate, I see no rea∣son but Lay-patrons (as some Ecclesia∣sticall doe) may keepe their Livings in their owne hands when they fall, so as they procure a sufficient Clergie-man to discharge the cure, which they may doe perchance with the tenth part of the profits: which some Non-residents thinke too much for a laborious learned Curate who takes all the toile, when as two or three good Livings is not suf∣ficient for themselves, who take no paines at all, or very little. Certainely if 10. or 20. or 30. pounds a yeere be a sufficient stipend for an able painefull Substitute, (perchance a man of more worth, more learning, and of a greater

• charge then his Master Non-resident) it must needs be a more then sufficient com∣petency for the negligent Encūbent, who transcends not his Curate, either in fun∣ction, or desert, but onely in sloath, in pride, and idlenesse. I shall therefore de∣sire all such Non-residents & Pluralists who feed their flockes by Substitutes, to consider the words of Guli. Peraldus Sum∣ma Virtutū ac Vitiorū. Tom. 2. Tit. Avaritia f. 59.60. (a most excellēt discourse against Pluralists,) where thus he writes. Contra illos verò qui credunt se posse habere plura talia beneficia, quia vicarios ponunt. Primò dicimus, quod eadem ratione Laīcus unus, immo etiam mulier posset habere decē beneficia ecclesiastica: posset enim ponere vicarios. Praeterea, ridicu∣lum est matrimonium contrahere spe ponendi vicarium; & qui hoc facit, vi∣detur incidisse in illam maledictionem. Deutronomij 18. Vxorem habebit & alius dormiet cum ea. Tertio, quaerimus de Vicario eo, utrum ••it Pastor vel mer∣cenarius? Si mercenarius est, latro est, sicut prius ostensum est. Quum ergo di∣cit aliquis, Bene possum habere hoc be∣neficium, quia ponam ibi vicarium, pae∣ne idem est ac si dicat; Bene possum il∣lud habere, quia ponam ibi Latronem, qui furetur, & mactet, & perdat; Ioan∣nis 10•• Si verò Pastor est, quae ratio est ut tu habeas duas Ecclesias, ipse vero nullam? Nunquid dicet tibi Ioannes, id est gratia Dei, vel in quo est gratia Dei; Non licet tibi habere uxorem fra∣tris tui? Quarto quaerimus à tali, utrum vicarius ille ••it minus bonus, vel aequè bonus, vel melior quam ipse? Si minus bonus, tunc naturalis ratio dictat, quod non est recipiendus pro eo. Operarius n•• in vineam alicujus conductus, non potest vicarium minus bonum pon••re. Si verò aeque bonus est vel melior, quae causa est, quod iste habeat duo beneficia, & ille nullum? Quintò, quod ipse deberet attendere quid acciderit de primo vica∣rio Synagogae. Sic enim legitur Exodi. 32. Moyses relinquens popu∣lum, satis parvam moram facturus cum Domino, dimisit vicarium satis bonum Aaron, & tamen in reditu po∣pulum quem reliquerat fidelem, infi∣delem & idololatram invenit. Praete∣rea dixit Apostolus, quod si quis non laborat, non manducet. Quo jure igi∣tur pascitur aliquis de beneficio illo ubi ipse non laborat? Ordinavit Deus, ut qui seminat spiritualia, metat carna∣lia. Qua ratione ergò pauper vicarius spiritualia seminabit, & alius carnalia metet? Et quum Dominus dicat; Quos Deus conjunxit homo non separet: quo jure denarius ille quem subditus offert vicario pauperi sibi spiritualia seminanti, accipietur à patrono male vivente? Et si quò ad forum contensiosum jus ibi•• vi∣deatur habere: tamen quoad judicium sac••ae Scripturae ipse raptor est, usur∣pans sibi alterum eorum quae à Deo conjuncta sunt sine reliquo; id est mer∣cedem sine Iabore: immo etiam homi∣cida reputatur, & respectu mercenarij quem defraudat, & respectu pauperum subditorum quorum sudorem comedit. De primò legitur. Ecclesiast. 33. Qui effundit sanguinem, & qui fraudem fa∣cit mercenario, fratres sunt. De secun∣do ••egitur ibidem. Qui aufert in sudo∣re panem quasi qui occidit proximum suum. Vltimò dicemus, quod illi qui vicarium ponunt, qui sola cupiditate lu∣cri serviunt, & non amore Dei, talem a∣morem faciunt matri suae ecclesiae qua∣lem amorem aliquis faceret matri suae carnali, si pedem verum ei auferret, & loco ejus pedem ligneum sub••••itueret. Pes ligneus non vivit neque corpori ad∣haeret. Si•• vicarius qui charitatem non habet non est membrum vivum vita spi∣rituali,

• nec adhaeret corpori ecclesiae. Sola n. charitate vivit quis, & adhae∣ret caeteris membris Ecclesiae. See much more to this p••rpose in that pithy•• Discourse.
• Nonnes, many of them notorious Whores, and Bawdes; who have clad themselves in mans apparell, shorne their haire, and entred into religion in Mon••staries as Monkes, to satiate these their holy Votaries lusts. pag. 184.185, 201, 202, 203, 204, 879.880, 881, 885. See William Wraghton his Hunting of the Romish Fox. fol. 24. and Iohn Bale his Acts of English Vo∣taries. Cambdeni Britta. Glocester-shire, Barkly Castle. Their haire shaven off when they enter into Orders. pag. 201.202, 203, 204. Yet Ioannes de Wankel. Clementinarum Constit. Tit. de Statu Monachorum. f. 64. pro∣pounds this question. An moniales possint nutrire comam, aut debeant sibi crines praescindere? & Hostiensis Sum. lib. 1. Tit. de Tempore ordina∣tionis, &c. concludes: Quod mulie∣ribus ordines non sunt conferendi, quia nec tonsurari debent, nec mulie∣ris coma amputanda est: quoting Gra∣tian Distinct. 30. to warrant it. See Summa Angelica. Faemina. sect. 1. & Sum, Rosella. Faemina. 2. accordingly.
• Master Northbrooke his Treatise against, and censure of Dancing, Dicing, Stage-playes, and Actors. p. 485.698.626. m. ••227.

O

• Oathes of the Gentiles, or by Pagan-I∣dols unlawfull. pag. 21.22, 81. to 89. fol. 551.
• Objections in defence of Stage-playes, of acting, penning, and beholding them, answered. pag. 34. to 42.96. to 106.124. to 127.721. to 828.913. to 975. in defence of lascivious mixt Dancing, answered p. 252. to 257.
• Obscenity and scurrility condemned; which abound in Stage••playes•• p. 62. to 72.160. to 168.262, 264, 265, 382, 385, 423, 914. to 930.593, 594.
• Occasions of sinne to be eschued. pag. 423.424, 911.
• Ochin his Tragedie of Free-will. p. 834.
• Odo Parisiensis, his Decretals against Clergie-mens Dicing and resort to Playes. pag. 654.655.
• Officiall, characterized. f. 537. See Vin∣centij Speculum. Hist. lib. 29. cap. 128.
• Ofilius Hilarus the Player, his death. fol. 553.
• Olaus Magnus his censure of Players, Ie∣sters, Playes, lascivious Pictures, and such who favour Players. p. 739.740. 741.
• Olympiodorus his censure of Playes and Play-haunting. fol. 524.
• Operius Danus his wanton Bookes cen∣sured. p. 922.
• Opmeerus his verdict of Stage-playes. pag. 481.
• Oratorie not helped or acquired by acting Playes. p. 931. to 938.
• Organs by whom brought first into Churches. p. 260.283, 285, 286, 287. See William Wraghton his Hunting of the Romish Fox, and his Answer to the Rescuer. fol. 12.59, 125, 126.
• Origen his censure of Altars and Images. p. 896.897. of Stage-playes, Actors, and Play-haunters. fol. 528. m. 330.331, 555, 669, 670.
• Orosius his doome of Stage-playes. p. 476. fol. 560. p. 682.
• Ortyges his effeminacy and death. pag 882.883.
• Osorius his censure of wanton Bookes and Poems. p. 916. m.
• Ovid his exile for his amorous Bookes.

• pag. 369.921. See Thomas Beacon his Booke of Matrimony. pars 4. fol 662. his censure of Playes, Play-houses, Play-poets, and the resorters to them; and of wanton Dancing, Songs and Musicke. p. 249.272, 288, 369, 370, 452, 453, 454, 921. his description of Pagan Feastivals. p. 233.753, 754.
• Oxford, the Vniversiti••s Edict against Stage-playes. p. 490.491, 941, 942.

P

• Pagans, the originall inventors and fre∣quenters of Stage-playes. pag. 16. to 40.731, 732. See Stage-playes: their customes and ceremonies to be avoy∣ded. Ibidem. & p. 236.545, 546, 552, 555, 561, 575, 578, 580. to 588.650, 651, 652, 658, 730. to 734.743. to 781. Sparsim. No paternes for Chri∣stians, who must excell them. p. 96. to 100.111. to 228.730. to 734. Some inventions of theirs lawfull, others not. p. 18. to 29. Their vertues coun∣terfeit, and shining sinnes. pag. 96. to 100. spent their Feastivals and hono∣red their Idols with Playes and Dan∣ces. See Dances, Feastivals and Idols. Ma∣ny, yea al the best of them condemned Stage-playes, and made Players infa∣mous. See Players and Stage-playes.
• Paganisme, men prone unto it. pag. 27.28.
• Rich. Panpolitanus his censure of Playes and Play-haunters. p. 690.
• Papists much addicted to Playes, many of our Players being such. p. 12.142, 560. to 568. Sparsim. 762. to 766. Act the passion and story of our Sa∣viour, the Legends of their Saints, &c. both on the Stage and in Chur∣ches, which many of them condemne: many of their Priests Players. p. 108. to 119.580. to 668. Sparsim. 762. to 766.9••9, 999, 1000. See Popes, Monkes, Nons.
• Parents ought not to traine up or encou∣rage their children to act, to dance, or behold Stage-playes: See Acting and Dancing. & pag. 335.336, 339, 340, 342, 343, 350, 3••3, 364, 306, 367, 369, 370, 373, 37••, 391, 392, 437, 439, 441, 44••, 447, to 491. Sparsim. 574.999 to 1005.
• S. Paul his Constitu••ions against Playes and Players. p. 550.55••, 652. would not have a lodging in Rome neere the Play-house, and why. fol. 545. See HRabanus Maurus. Comment. in Epist. Pauli. lib. 26. Operum. Tom. 5. pag. 537. D. Thomas Waldensis. Tom. 3. Tit. 19. De Religiosorum Domibus. cap. 149. fol. 268. Hierom. Comment. in Philemon. Tom. 6. pag. 216. E. Iacobus Pamelius Comment. in Epist. Pauli ad Philem. apud HRabanum Maurum. Operum. Tom. 5. p. 166. G. and most ancient many moderne Protestant and Popish Authors on the Epistle to Philemon, accordingly.
• Pauls Church in London originally con∣secrated to Diana. p. 38.
• Peace becomes Christians who must bee peaceable. p. 73.74, 120.
• Pericles his grave saying. p. 921.
• Petrarcha his censure of Playes and Dan∣cing. p. 237.238, 355, 356, 357.
• Philipides the ••omedian his sudden death. fol. 553.
• Philip Augustus, his dislike and censure of Playes and Players. p. 471.484, 715.
• Philip of Mac••don, slaine at a Play. f. 554. censured for acting and dancing. pag. 857.
• Philo Iudaeus, his prayse. p. 554.668. his censure of Stage-playes, Dancing, mens putting on of womens ap∣parell, and wearing Periwigs, or long effeminate frizled haire. p. 168.186, 209. m. 222.307, 308, 554, 637. m. 668.669. of Images in Churches. pag.

• 895. m. of the Vizards and Histories of Pagan-Idols. pag. 79•• 89, 901•• of luxurious Feasts. p. 554.754, 755. his opinion how the Sabboth should be sanctified. p. 554. m.
• Pictures amorous and lascivious, provo∣cations unto lust and lewdnesse, con∣demned. pag. 94.367, 387, 586, 740, 741, 329, 338, 865, 866.
• Pilades the Player whipped. p. 460.
• Plag••es occasioned by Stage-playes. fol. 559.566, 561. All the Roman Actors consumed by a plague. Ibidem. The Romanes used Playes to asswage the p••stilence that was in Rome. Ibidem. & p. 18.28, 29.
• Plato his censure of lascivious Songs and Musicke, Play-poets, Players, and Playes. p. 264.288, 368, 448, 703, 918, 839, 480.
• Plautus his misery. f. 553.
• Play-bookes: See Bookes.
• Players, infamous, both among Christi∣ans and Pagans, excommunicated the Church, debarred from the Sacra∣ments, uncapable of Orders, of gi∣ving testimony, of bearing any pub∣like office, of inheriting lands: dis∣franchised their tribes, rogues by Statute, and subject to the whipping-post, p. 46. m. 133.134, 137, 140, 193, 341, 362, 429, 455, 456, 460, 468, 481, 482, 495, 496. fol. 527.528, 560, 561, 567, 571. to 587.617, 618, 626, 637, 649, ••52, 654, 691, 699, 735. to 741.••43. to 870.904, 905, 910, 998, 999. Renounced their profession before they could be admitted into the Pri∣mitive Church. Ibidem. Many of them Papists and most desperate wicked wretches. p. 100.125, 132. to 143.388, 728, 907, 908, 909, 998. The giving of money to them, a grand sin, yea a sacrificing unto Devils. pag. 46.324, ••25, 326, 472, 688, 739, 904, 905, 906. Their gaines, theft, and ought to bee restored. Ibidem. Professed a∣gents and instruments of the Devill, the pests of the Common-weale, the corrupters and destroyers of youth. p. 92.472, 133. to 143.330. to 355.447. to 501. Sparsim. 842. to 911. Sparsim. 980. to 986.••002, 1003, 1004. Hypocrites: See that Title. Can hardly be saved without repentance and giving over their ungodly trade. Ibidem. & p. 45.46. fol. 521. to 547.565, 566, 567, 842. to 911.
• Play-haunters, the worst and lewdest per∣sons, for the most part. p. 100.104, 143. to 155.388, 389, 415, 416, 451, 476, 505, 514, 711, 71••, 719, 720, 730, 797 788, 798, &c. See Whores: excommu∣nicated in the Primitive Church. pag. 392.393, 527, 528. Vnfit to heare Gods Word, or to receive the Sacra∣ment. p. 392. to 396. 399, 400, 401, 425, 426, 430, 431, 432. f. 521. to 550, 988, 989. Their mindes and manners corrupted by Playes, and themselves made guilty of many sins. Ibid. See p. 302. to 368.910, 911, 912, 913, 943. to 975. Iudgemēts o•• God upon Play-haunters. f. 555. to 563, 850, 851.
• Play-haunting unlawfull. p. 72. to f. 832.911, 912, 913. Objections in defence of it answered. p. 943. to 960.
• Play-houses stiled by the Fathers, and o∣thers, the Devils temples, chappels, synagogues; the chaire of pesti∣lence, the dens of lewdnesse and fil∣thinesse; the schooles of bawdery and uncleanesse; the Stewes of shame and modesty; the shops of Sa∣tan: the plagues, the poysons of mens soules; a Babilonish Brothell, &c. p. 10.11, 49, 50, 52, 67, 68, 69, 101, 102, 144, 145, 163, 172, 329, 330, 337 341, 349, 369, 370, 374, 386, 389, 390, 418, 431, 440, 441, 446, 472,

• 474, 488, 489, 580. f. 513.560. Publike Stewes and common Receptacles of whores in former times and now to. p. 144.145, 380, 389, 390, 331, 332, 333 349, to 369.370, 391, 419. to 448. 524, 452, 453, 498, 662, 1005. See Whores & Stewes. Alwayes ful of devils, who claime them as their owne. p. 11. 51, 52, 143.404, 431, 483. f. 510.523, 524, 556. p. 766. Not to be tolerated, and why. pag. 369.370, 404, 415, 416, 422, 427, 428, 431, 447. to 501. Sparsim. 1002.1003.1004.
• Play-poems recited, not acted in former times. p. 834.835.
• Play-poets, examples of Gods Iudgements on the chiefest of th••m. fol. 552.553. Their profession and the penning of Playes, for Play-houses, unlawfull p. 448.831. to 843. the Objections in defence of them answered. p. 913. to 943. Examples of divers Play-poets who have repented, bewayled with much griefe and many teares their penning of Playes, and written against it too•• pag. 138.360, 436, 437, 438, 440, 486. fol. 542.545, 566, 568, 837, 840, 910, 917, 918, 922.
• Pleasures: See worldly.
• Pliny his censure of Playes and Actors. p. 450.451.462, 463, 703.
• Plutarch his censure of Playes, Players, and Play-poets. p. 321.449, 706.
• Po••try, lawfull and commendable. p. 882. to 830. Obscene Poets, Poems, most pernicious and unlawfull. p. 385.835. to 843.913. to 930. See Bookes.
• Poe••s, banished by Plato. p. 449 918•• the chi••fe fomenters of Paganisme p. 78.80. The greatest Panders. p. 385.915, 916, 919•• to 925.
• Policarpus his censure of Marcion•• p. 194.
• Polydor Virgil his censure of eff••minate wanton Church-musicke, p. 283.••84. of Dancing, Stage-playes, and Mum∣mers. p. 226.117, 494, 692.
• Pom••a, what it signifieth. p. 565.566.
• Pompes of the Devill which we renounce in baptisme, are Stage-playes and Dan∣cing. See Baptisme, Dancing, Devill.
• Poore prejudiced by Stage-playes. pag. 45.311, 325, 471, 472, 481, 718. ought not to wander abroad. Ibidem.
• Pope Boniface the 8. his Secular Enter∣ludes. p. 760 763. Pope Clement the 1. his censure of Playes, Players, Dan∣ces, &c. See Clemens Romanus. Pope Cle∣ment the 5. his prohibition of Nons to behold Playes or Dances. pag. 654. Pope Eugenius his Decree against En∣terludes & Playes on the Lords Day. p 913. Pope Eusebius his Decre••all a∣gainst Clergie-mens resort to Playes, &c. p. 652.653. Pope Gregory the first his censu••e of Playes and Players. p. ••83.846. against Bishops reading of Pagan Authors. p. 78.915, 916. turned Pagan Festivals into Christian. p. 759 760. Pope Innocent the 1. his censure of Playes. p. 655.656. See Iuo Carnotensis Decret. pars 6. c. 349, & pars 11. c. 78. Pope Innocent the 3. his censure of Playes. p. 684.685. Pope Ione, an infa∣mous Strumpet, who cut her haire and clothed her selfe in mans apparell. p. 185 879. Pope Leo the 1. his censure of Playes•• •• 533. p. 682. Pope Leo the 10. reputed the History of Christ a meere fable. p. 117. Pope Nicholas the 5. his S••cular Playes. f. 559. p. 763. Pope Pius the 2. See AEneas Sylvius. Pope Pius the fift, his Decretall a∣gainst Clergie-mens Dancing, Di∣cing, or resorting to Playes, &c. pag. 654. Sextus his Decretals against acting and jesting Clergie-men. Pope Sixtus the fourth, erected a male and female Stewes, out of which hee and his Successors reserved an annual R••∣venue. p. 215.445.446.
• ...

• Popes, Popish Priests, Prelates, Monkes, &c. great Sodomites, Adulteres, Epicures, &c. p. 213.214, 215, 445, 456, 879, 880 881. The chiefe fautors and bringers in of Stage-playes, Christmas disor∣ders, and Pagan customes into the Church, yea oft-times Actors and Spectators of Stage-playes. p. 108. to 119.580. to 666. Sparsim. 754. to 767 929. Popish Saints what they are, and how honoured. p. 116, 117, 118.
• Porpherya Player, his strange conversion. p. 118.119.
• Processions, their reason and abuses, pag. 115.116.
• Prodigality a great sinne occasioned by Playes. p. 157.310. to 327.47••.472, 708, 709, 710, 416, 429, 481, 512, 857, 1004.
• Propertius his censure of Playes & Play-houses. p. 455.
• Prosper Aquitanicus his censure of Playes•• p. 349.682. his opinion for plaine and profitable preaching. p. 937.938.
• Prudentius his censure of Playes. p. 680.720. fol. 561.
• Psalmes ought to bee sung at Christian Feasts, not filthy songs. pag. 48.264, 554, 555, 766. to 780.642. m.
• Ptolomie censured for dancing, playing, and acting. p. 710.
• Puel de Dieu, her mannish practice and execution. p. 185.284, 285.
• Puritans; condemners of Stage-playes and other corruptions stiled so•• p. 3.4, 5••567, 568, 569, 797. to 828.1005. The very best and holiest Christians called so, even for their grace and goodnesse. Ibidem. & fol. 542. Christ. his Prophets, Apostles, the Fathers, and Primitive Christians, Puritans as men now judge. p. 797. to 828. hated, and condemned onely for their grace yea holinesse of life. Ibidem. accused of hypocrisie and sedition, and why so. pag. 816. to 828.
• Puritan, an honourable nickname of christianity and grace. p. 827.

Q

• Quarrels & tumults occasioned by Stage-playes. p. 516.517, 518.
• Quiroga his Index Expurgatorius expun∣ging a passage of Lodovicus Vives a∣gainst Popish Enterludes. p. 115.
• Quintilian his censure of Playes, &c. pag. 705 706, 966 m. of the ill education of youth. Ibidem. of Seneca. p. 842. a∣gainst childrens or mens acting of Playes to make them Orators. p. 933.

R

• HRabanus Maurus his censure of Players, Playes, Dancing, New-yeeres gifts, Health-drinking, and acting in wo∣mens apparell. p. 198. fol. 524. p. 562. 683, 756, 780. m. his judgement of the beginning and sanctifying of the Lords Day. p. 645. m.
• D. Rainolds his Overthrow and censure of Stage-playes both popular and aca∣demicall; of Dancing, and mens acting in womens apparell. p. 198.199, 227, 309, 320, 358, 487, 698, 887. of Images in Churches. pag. 900.903. Vindicated against a late Opposer. p. 671. to 680.
• Rare things most admired. p. 742.743.
• Rayling and Satyrs, especially against goodnesse, and good men, frequent in Stage-playes. p. 120. to 127.814, 815. condemned. Ibidem.
• Raymundi Summula its prayse of the Scripture. pag. 927. against giving to Players. p. 873.
• Reading: See Bookes and Scriptures: Some things lawfull to be read, and yet un∣lawfull to be penned or acted. p 928. to 931.
• ...

• Recreations, when, why, and how to bee used, what circumstances requi∣site to make them lawfull. p. 945. to 948. See Master Bolton his generall Directions for our walking with God. p. 154 to 181. Great variety of honest Recreations besides Stage-playes. p. 40.417.965. to 970.
• Repetition of Sermons commended, com∣manded by Scriptures and Fathers p. 432.800, 801. See Chrysost. Hom. 20•• in Ep••es. 5. Tom. 4 Col. 1010. C. Sint praeces vobis communes; unus∣quis{que} ea•• ad ecclesiam, & eorum quae illic dicuntur & leguntur, & maritus ab vxore partem domi exigat, & illa à marito. Si sanctum quemquam in∣veneris qui possit domu•• vestrae bene∣dicere, & pedum ingressu valeat uni∣versam inferre Dei benedictionem, ••um voca: Thus he See 1 Cor. 14.35. Domi inquit, à suis maritis discant. Hoc autem & illas ornatas reddit, & viros attentiores facit, ut qui debeant, quae in Ecclesia audiverunt, uxoribus ea interrogantibus recitare, ac veluti apud eas deponere. Theophylact. Enar. in 1 Cor. 14. pag. 427. See Primasius in 1 Cor. 14. and most moderne Prote∣stant Commentators, accordingly.
• Reprehention of sinnes and vices, how, when, where, and by whom to bee made. p. 124. to 127. not to be done by Players. Ibidem.
• R••publike, much prejudiced by Playes and Actors, which ought not to be tolera∣ted in it. p. 45.445. to 501 997. to 1006.
• Restitution, to bee made by Players and Gamesters p. 46.906.
• Romanes, anc••ently condemned, sup¦pressed•• Playes and Theaters, and made Players infamous. p. 456.714, 843, 844, 737, 998, 9••9.
• Rome Christian, the same with Pagan. p. 757. to 765. Its beastines. p. 215.767.
• Roscius the Actor his skill. p. 932. Tull•• his censure of his acting. p. 848. f. 525.
• Ruscians much given to Dancing. p. 602•• 603.

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• Sabb••th: See Lords Day: examples of Gods vengeance upon the propha∣ners of it. f. 556.557.
• Sabine Virgi••s ravished at a Play. pag. 30.452, 453.
• Salust, his censure of Playes and Dan∣cing•• p. 245.704••
• Salvian his censure of Stage playes: Epi∣stle to the Reader. p. 51.52, 105, 313, 314, 351, 352, 477. f. 525.526, 527. p. 682.
• Samians taxed for their effeminacy and long compt haire. p. 883.
• Iohn Saresberi•• against lascivious Mu∣sicke, Playes, Players, and Dice-play. p 281.282, 318, 350, 351, 684.
• Saturnalia, when and how celebrated. p. 751. to 766. the ground and patterne of disorderly Christmasses. Ibidem.
• Scipio Africanus, his censure of Dancing. p. 245.246.
• Scipio Nassica, his censure, his suppression of Playes and Theaters. p. 458.475, 561, 714.
• Scriptures against Dancing. p. 228. Pagan customes, and names of Pagan-Idols. p. 18.19, 77. Stage-playes. p. 545. to 551.723, 724. against effeminacy, a∣dultery, fornication, idlenesse, prodi∣gality, drunkennesse, mens long haire, womens curling and cutting their haire, mens acting in womens appa∣rell, lasciviou•• attire, fashions, appa∣rell: lying, hypocrisie, vanity, &c. See ••hese Titles: Ought diligently to bee read, as well of Laymen as Clergie-men. Epist. Ded. 2. f. 521. pag. 585.586, 913. to 940.591.760, 772. To be read at meales at Bishops and Ministers Tables. p. 591.653, 769,

• 772, 773. Not to be abused or used in Stage-playes, Iests, Libels, &c. f. 405. p. 110. to 116.929. f. 553.763, 764, 765. Their excellency and all-sufficiency. p 927.928.
• Sedition, occasioned by Stage-playes. pag. 136. fol. 516.517, 518. Christ, his Pro∣phets, Apostles, and Christians in all ages accused of it, though most unjust∣ly. p. 821. to 8••8. See 5. R. 2. c. 5.2. H. 4. c. 15.2. H. 5. c. 7.1. & 2. Phil. Mary. c. 6. Haddon Contr. Osorium. l. 2. f. 212. where we shal finde Witcliffe, Luther, & the an∣cie••t English Protestants, whom they nicknamed La••lards, accused of Sediti∣on. Occasioned for want of preach∣ing, not by preaching. f. 531.
• Semproni•• taxed for her dancing p. 245.
• Sempronius Sophus divorced his wife for resorting to Playes without his leave. p. 39••.662.
• Seneca his censure of Stage-playes. p. ••68.369, 449, 4••7, 484, 703. of dancing, lascivious songs and musicke, of mens comp•• long frizled haire. p. 24••.249. of mens putting on womens apparell. p. 199. of night disorders. p. 746.747. m. of the anciē•• S••turnalia•• p. 752.7••3. of making Gods Image. p. 895. m.
• Sermons twice euery Lords-day and so∣lemne Holi-day enjoyned by BB. Hoo∣per, Martyn ••ucer, a Popish Councell. f. 531. p. 629. & by 5•• & 6. E. 6. c. ••.3. ••. Eliz. c. 2.25. ••liz. cap. 3.1 Ia••. c. 4. which joyne divine Service and Ser∣mons together on Sundayes & Holi-dayes, because on such dayes one of them should be as frequent as the o∣ther, & men ought to heare them both alike, See 5. ••. 2. c. 5. Ought to be plain, edifying, not fraughtwith Poets, Histo∣ries, flashes of wit, &c. but with Scrip∣ture profe and phrases. p. 935. to 939. God-fathers enjoyned by our Church to call upon their God••children to heare Sermons. fol. 530.
• Shaving of Priests crownes and beards in use with Papists, an Heathenish cu∣stome. p. 23.24. Shaving and polling of Nonnes, censured. p. 202. to 205.
• Socrat••s traduced in Playes. pag. 121. his censure of Playes. p. 450.
• Sodoms Theaters and punish••ent. f. 561.
• Sodomie occasioned by acting in womens apparell, by wearing long compt haire and Love-lockes. p. 208. to 214.882, 884, 885, 1001, 10••5. Players, Play-poets guilty of it. pag. 125.211. Popes, Popish Prelates, Priests, Monkes addicted to it. pag. 213.445, 446, 881, 767, 100••, 1005. See Balaeus O••nt. Script. Brit. pag. 665. Ma∣ny Nations, and mans nature prone unto it. pag. 20••. to 214.1001, 1005. An execrable sinne, stiled abomina∣tion in Scripture. p. 208.212. Capitall by our English Lawes. p. 214.
• Sodomites u••ually clad their Ganymedes in womens apparell, caused them to nourish, to frizle their hai••e, to weare Periwigs and Love-lockes pag. 208. to 214. & 882. to 890.
• Solon his censure of Stage-playes. p. 449.484, 516, 838, 839.
• Songs lascivious and ribaldrous frequent in Stage-playes•• condemned. p 261. to 274.412, 413, 420, 435, 518, 572, 578, 579, 588, 606, 610, 611, 613, 771, 774, 532. See Vi••c••n••ij Speculum. Histor. lib. 29. cap. 144. & Agripp•• De Vanitate Scien••. cap. 64.
• Sop••oc••es the Tragedian his death. f. 553.
• Spoctacl••s of Christians, what•• Epist. Ded. 2. pag. 245. to 249.971. to 975.
• Speeches of Christians ought to be graci∣ous and profitable. fol. 521.528, 529, 6••, 128.924.
• Spels unlawfull. pag. 21.583.
• Stage-playes: condemned by Scripture. p. 545. to 551.7••3. to 727. By the whole

• Church of God both under the Law and Gospell. p. 551. to 570. By 55. oe∣cumenicall, Nationall, Provinciall Synodes, Councels, the Apostles Ca∣nons, sundry Imperiall, Canonicall Constitutions. p. 570. to 668. By 71. Fahers & ancient Christian Writers from our Saviours Nativity, till An. 1200 p. 668. to 688••329. to 354.392. to 434.47••. to 478. f. 522. to 528. By above ••50. moderne Christian Writers from An. 1200. to 1632. p. 688. to 702. pag. 68.69, 355. to 366.434. to 445.485. to 488. By 40. Heathen Au∣thors. p. 702. to 713.365, to 361••447. to 467. By divers Pagan & Christian Nations, Republikes, Emperors, Ma∣gistrates, Kings, &c. both ancient and moderne. p. 455. to 472.713. to 718. & 137.138.847. to 862. By our owne English Statutes, Princes, Magi∣strates, Vniversities, Writers, Divines. p. 68.69, 357. to 434.485. to 499.698, 699, 700, 715, 716, 919. to 923. Pro∣ved unlawful in sundry respects. First, of their inventors which were Devils, Pagans. p. 9. to 48 96. See Devils, Pa∣gans. Secondly, of the ends for which they were invēted, to wit, the solemne worship & honor of Devil-Idols, on whose Festivals they were acted, or o∣ther unlawfull ends. p. 28. to 54. See Devils. Thirdly, of their subject mat∣ter, which is, first, amorous, obscene. p. 62. to 72.327. to 480. & 914. to 9••4. Secondly, tragicall, tyrannicall. p. 72. to 75. Thirdly, Heathenish, prophane. p. 75. to 106.176, 177. Fourthly, false, fabulous. p. 106. to 109. Fiftly, sacrile∣gious, impious, blasphemous, abusing the Scripture, & our Saviours Passion. p. 108. to 125.763. to 767.929, 999, 1000. See Christ. Sixtly, Satyricall, in∣vective, especially against religion and religious men. p. 120. to 127•• fol. 542.543, 8.4, 815. Hence the beleeving Iewes and Christians. Hebr. 10.33. (& 1 Cor. 4.9.) are said 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, to be made a Play, a Spectacle, or gazing stocke, through reproaches and afflictions, or to bee brought on a publike Stage & there de∣rided, personated, traduced, as Chrysostom, Ambrose, Primasius, Haymo, Anselme, Remigi∣us, & most other interpret it: because no∣thing was more usuall in the idolatrous Gentiles Stage-playes, then to personate jeare, & ••lander Christians (as now they doe Puritans) on the Stage•• See pag. 814.815. Seventhly, vaine, unprofitable, bring∣ing no glory to God, or good to men. p. 38.43, 44, 127. to 132. Fourthly, in re∣gard of their Actors, Spectators, which are commonly lewde & wicked persons. p. 132. to 155•• f. 547. to 550. See Players, Play-haunters. Whores. Fiftly, in regard of their manner of acting and those cir∣cumstances which attend it: as first, hypo∣crisie & dissimulation. p. 156. to 161.876, 877. Secondly, lasciviousnesse. p. 161. to 176. Thirdly, effeminacy. p. 167. to 173. f. 546. p. 877. Fourthly, vanity, ridiculous folly. p. 173. to 175.877, 878. Fiftly, lewde Diabolicall sinfull parts and pas••ages. p. 75. to 106.175. to 178.890, 904. Sixtly, mens acting in womens apparell. p. 178. to 216.879. to 894. Seventhly, gawdy, lascivious, fantastique apparell, vizards, disguises. pag. 216. to 220.890. to 904. Eightly, effeminate lascivious mixt dan∣cing. p. 220. to 261. See Dancing. Ninthly, amorous scurrilous Songs and Poems. p. 261. to 273. See Songs. Tenthly, effeminate lust-provoking Musicke. p. 273. to 290. See Musicke. Eleventhly, profuse lascivious laughter and applauses. p. 290. to 302. See Laughter, Applauses. Sixtly, in respect of those mischievous fruits that issue from them: as first, mispence of time. p. 302. to 310.39, 45, 1002. See Time. Secondly, prodigality and vaine expence. p. 39.45,

• 302. to 312, 1004. See Prodigal••ty. Thirdly, the inflamation and irritation of mens lusts. p. 327, to 446.1000.1002. Fourth∣ly, much contemplative & actuall adulte∣ry, whoredome, uncleanes. p. 328. to 446.1002, 1003. See Adultery, Whores. Fiftly, a generall depravation of the Actors, the Spectators mindes, manners, and the Re∣publikes hurt. p. 42.132, 140, 447. to 501. 734, 735, 740, 784, 795, 796. Sixtly, ••loath and idlenesse. p. 501. to 508.709, 710, 1002, 1003, 1006. Seventhly, luxu∣ry, drunkennesse, and excesse. p. 508. to 512. Eightly, impudency and shame∣lesnesse, even in sinfull things. f. 512. to 516. Ninthly, cosinage, fraude, theft. f. 515.516. Tenthly, cruelty, fiercenesse, quarrels, seditions, murthers. fol. 516. to 520. Eleventhly, unprofitable, vaine, lewde discourses. f. 520.521. Twelfely, indisposition to all holy duties; avoca∣tion from Gods service: prophanation of Lords-dayes and religious Festivals: contempt of Gods Ordinances, Word•• Ministers; and the making of all Gods Ordinances ineffectuall to mens soules. p. 393. to 404.407, 408, 431, 432. f. 521. to 54••.988, 989, 1004. Thirteenthly, an emnity against, & disesteeme of grace, of virtue, and all religio••s men. f. 542.543. p. 120. to 127. p. 814.815. Fourteenthly, inamoring men with sin, vanity, and in∣disposing them to repentance. f. 544.545. Fifteenthly, effeminacy in words, appa∣rell, haire, actions. p. 167. to 212. f. 546.547. p. 708.740. Sixteenthly, acquain∣tance with lewde companions. p. 131. to 155. f. 547. to 550. Seventeenthly, Athe∣isme, Paganisme & grosse Idolatry. p. 75. to 106. fol. 550.551. Eighteenthly, the breach of all the 10. Commandements. f. 551.522. Ninteenthly, the drawing down of Gods heavy Iudgements both upon their Penners, Actors, Spectators, with those Republikes and Cities which suffer them. p. 484.485. &•• f. 552. to 565. Twentiethly, eternal damnation of mens soules without sincere repentance. p. 45.46, 61.476. f. 565, 566.567. & p. 910. See Players. Authorities against them. p•• 305 to 721. Sparsim. Objections in defence of them answered. p. 721. to 830. The pen∣ning, acting, beholding of them prooved unlawfull. p. 831. to 914. Objections in defence of the penning, acting, seeing of them, answered. pag. 913. to 989. Stage-playes, the very pompes of the Devill which we renounce in baptisme. See Bap∣tisme, Devill, Pompes. Stiled by the Fathers and others, The seminaries of vice, of lewdnesse; the lectures of bawdery, the plagues, the poyson of mens soules, and mindes: the grand empoysoners of all grace, all goodnes, the spectacles & food of Devils, &c. p. 2.10, 46, 47, 50, 67, 69, 329. to 590. Sparsim. f. 566 See Play-hou∣ses: unsufferable ••vi••s in any Christian Church or State•• f. 330. to 501. Sparsim•• & 545. to 780. Devils & Devill-Idols de∣lighted with them, honored by them. See Dancing, Devils, Ido••s, Festivals. Incorrigible mischiefes. p. 38. to 42. The Devill the onely gainer by them. p. 44. to 47. More obscene of latter then any in former times. pag. 38.39, 70, 132, 458. Rare∣ly acted heretofore. pag. 742.743, 768. Academicall Stage-playes censu∣red. pag. 7.8, 490, 491, 700, 701, 841. to 867. Sparsim. 99••.999.
• Statius his censure of Achilles wearing of Womens apparell. p. 199.
• Statutes against Players, Playes, and Dice-play. Epist. Ded. 1. pag. 109.495 496, 497, 715, 716.
• Stephanio the Pla••er whipped. p. 459.
• Stewes erected by Heliog••balus. p. 389. Suf∣fred in Pagan Rome of old. p 767. Ere∣cted in Antichristian Rome by Pope Sixtus the 4. and continued by his Successors, who make a great revenue

• of them. p. 215.445, 446. Play-houses, Stewes in former times, if not now to. p. 144.145, 358, 359, 389, 390.446, 993. See Iustin: Autent. C••llat 5. Tit. 4. f. 46.
• Strabo the Geographer a Cappadocian borne; his division of Cappado∣cia. pag. 678.
• Straton King of the Sydonians, censured for his dancing, &c. p. 250.857.
• Master St••bs his censure of Dancing, Di∣cing, May-poles, Wakes, Stage-playes, Epist. Ded 1. pag. 227.358, 435, 436, 698, 626•• m. 793.794, 795, 796.
• Guli. Stucki••s his censure of Dancing, Health-drinking and Stage-••layes pag. 996
• Sword-playes condemned, prohibited, suppressed by Fathers, Emperours, and others. pag. 74.75, 347, 367, 368, 548, 685, 467, 468, 519.
• Sybarites their effeminacy and effeminate Pages who did weare long haire and Love-lockes, censured. p. 883.209. m.
• Sylla his expence ••pon Actors. pag. 315.840.

T

• Tables, and no Altars in the Primitive Church. p. 396.400, 408. See Altars and Hooper.
• C. Tacitus his censure of Playes, of Play∣ers, of N••ro and others who either acted or frequented Playes. pag. 368.451, 465, 705, 849, to 853.858, 859.
• Tamerlan his lewd-nesse. p. 387.
• Tapers on Altars and in Churches, deri∣ved from the Pagans: censured. p. 22.23, 36, 758.
• Tatianus his censure of Playes and Play∣ers. p. 334.669.
• Tecla censured for cutting her haire, and wearing mans apparell. p. 879.
• Terence his death. f. 553. his Comedies censured, prohibited to bee read in Schooles. p. 916.917.
• Terynthians, much accustomed to laugh∣ter. &c. ••. 200.
• Tertullian his censure of, & Booke against Stage-playes. pag. 49.162, 163, 330, 331, 472. fol. 522.523, 547, 557, ••69, 972, 973. against acting in womens apparell. p. 187.888. against Images, Vizards and Stage-disguises. p. 36. m. 60.89. m. 160.897. m. 901. his censure of face-painting, lascivious apparell, false haire, wearing of Lawrell crownes, Bonefires, and disorderly Festivals•• pag. 20.160. m. 217.581. m. 745. m. 768.769, 770. m.
• Thales pressed to death at a Play. f. 557.
• Theatre, not alwayes taken for a Play-house, but sometimes for a place of publike meeting where Orations were made, and Malefactors execu∣ted. pag. 724. to 727. Theaters over∣turned by tempests. f. 558.559.
• Theft, occasioned and taught by Stage-playes and Dicing. Epist. Ded. 1. fol. 558.559. Mony got by Dice-play, un∣lawfull games, or acting Stage-playes, theft. p. 325.326, 905.906.
• Themistocles•• his law against Magistrates resort to Playes. p. 456.457.
• Theodectes his punishment for inserting Scripture into his Playes. p. 110. fol. 553.
• Theodora censured for putting on mans apparell. p. 201.879.
• Theodoret his censure of Playes and Play∣ers fol. 550,
• ...Theo••oricus ••is censure of Playes and Players. p 470.471. fol. 517.518.
• Theodosius his inhib••tion of lascivious Songs, of Stage-playes and Actors•• p. 263.264, 422, 423, 424.••68, 715.
• Theophilact his censure of Playes, and dancing. pag. 224.228, 684. See his Enar. in Act. 17. p. 804.
• Theophilus A••ti••••henus his cens••re of Pla••es and Players. p. 334.557, 558, 669.
• Theopompus his divine punishment. p. 110.
• ...

• Tiberius A••tinius a story of him. p. 11.12.
• Tiberius banished Players, and suppressed Playes. p. 122 137, 460. f. 516.517. p. 708. his lewdnesse. p. 387.
• Tibullus, not to be read. pag. 453.454, 916, 917.
• Time shrot, pretious, and to bee redee∣med. p. 48. m. 302.303, 310.346. con∣sumed, mispent on Playes and va∣nities. pag. 302. to 310.837.903, 946, 951. to 946.951.952, 953, 957, 958. f. 530. vacant times and houres how to be spent. p. 952. to 956.
• T••sta••us his censure of Playes, and Play∣ers. p. 690.846, 847.
• Tragedies and bloody Spectacles, censured p. 72 to 76. f. 516 to 520.
• Trajan his censure and suppression of Playes and Players. p 462.463, 714. his abridgement of the number of Holi-dayes. f. 539.
• Trebonius Rufinus banished Playes from Vienna. p. 458.
• Tully his censure of Dancing and Stage-playes. p. 246.247, 248, 449, 703. his contesting with Roscius. p. 932. his cen∣sure of him. p. 848.
• Tumblers censured. pag. 22.
• Turkes, punish adultery with death. p. 382. may justly censure Christians for their excesse. p. 747.748. condemne idlenesse as a mortall sinne. p. 506.

V

• Valens his Edict against Players and Playes. p. 468.843.
• Valentinian his Edict against Sword-playes, Stage-playes, & Stage-players. p. 468.843, 844.
• Valerian his censure of amorous Musicke, Songs, Playes. pag. 269.270, 276, 683.
• Valerius Maximus his censure of Playes. p. 450.704, 732.
• Valesius a story of him. pag. 11.
• Vanity and vaine things to be avoyded of Christians. p. 128.129, 173, 174. fol. 544.545. Stage-playes vanity, and vaine delights. Ibidem. & p. 52.127. to 132.173. to 178.
• Venus the Patronesse of Stage-playes. p. 168.386. her effeminate Priests in womens attire and long haire. p. 194.204, 207, 885. her sacrifices. Ibidem.
• Veronius Turinus his death. pag. 920.
• Vertue of Heathens, no vertue, no pat∣terne for Christians. pag. 96. to 100. God onely can teach it, not Playes or Players. p. 96. to 103.139.
• Vesta••l Virgins how punished for forni∣cation. p. 382. did cut their haire and consecrate it to Lucina, from whence the polling of Popish Nonnes is de∣rived. pag. 202.
• Vestments of the Gentiles prohibited. pag. 22.
• Vices, acted in, and taught by Stage-playes•• pag. 100, to 106.305. to 568. God only can teach men to hate vice, not Stage-playes. p. 139.140.
• Vigils why appointed. p•• 642. See Gratian Distinct•• 75. abolished. p. 754. m. 578.
• Vincentius Beluacensis censure of Playes, and Dancing. p. 637. 688, 471, 472.
• Vitellius taxed for favouring Players. p••g. 856. his law against Knights acting on a Stage. pag. 862.
• Lod. Vives, his censure of Players, Playes, and Popish Enterludes. p. 103. m. 114. 115, 134. m. 691.
• Vniversities their censure of common En∣terludes. p. 490.491, 941, 942. m.
• Volateranus his censure of Playes. p. 730.
• Vortiger his vices. pag. 133.135.
• Vulgar, delighted with Playes. fol. 540.
• Vzza his death. pag. 943.944.

W

• Wakes, derived from the ancient Vigils. p. 236.754. m. their hurt. fol. 516. See M. Stubs his Anatomy. pag. 112.113.
• Waldens••s, their censure of Dancing, Di∣cing, and Stage-playes. p. 228. to 233.

• 636. See Lydij Waldensia. Tom. 2. p. 358. & Andreas Frisiu•• de Republica ••mēdanda. l. 1. cap. 23. f. 90. Of Church-musicke, Altars, and Organs. p 285. m.
• Thomas Waldensis censure of Stage-playes as the Devils pompes pag. 565.690.
• Paulus Wan his censure of Playes, and Dancing, p. 691.258. m.
• Whipping-post, Players adjudged to it. pag. 413.459, 460, 847, 848, 849.
• Wh••redome occasioned by Stage••playes. p. 328. to 446. See Adultery.
• Wh••res harbored, prostituted in Play-houses. p 144.145, 349, 358, 389, 390, 391, 856. Vsuall resor••ers to Playes to Play-houses, whether few wo∣men but knowne or suspected Har∣lots, and Adulteres••es re••ort. pag. 144. 145, 146, 349, 361, 362, 363, 370, 371, 389, 390, 391, 419. to 442.438, 453, 662, 355, 356, 369, 944. fol. 5••4. p 856.991, 994, 1002.
• Wickliffe his censure of giving money to Players. p. 324.689.
• Women, skill in dancing no good signe of their honesty, ought not to learne, nor traine up their children to dance. pag. 220.229. to 261. See Dancing. Ought not to frizle or cut their haire, to weare false haire, to put on mens ap∣parell, to paint their faces, or to weare garish lascivious attyre. p. 159.179. to 221.258. f. 514.879. to 890. See Haire, Apparell, ••nd Face-pa••nting. & Gulielmus ••••raldus. Summa Virtutum & Viti••rum. ••om. 2. f. 119. to 128. Ti••. Superbia•• & fol. 16. to 21. Tit. Luxuria: Ought to nurse their owne children. p. 705.706. m. See Reformatio Legum Ecclesiastica∣rum. Ti••. De Matrimonio. c. 13. f. ••2. D. Taylo••s Commentary upon Titus. p. 382.383. Thomas B••acon his Cate∣chisme. f. 517.5••8. Ought to be kee∣pers at home, not gadder•• abroad. p. 434••435, 992, 993. Ought not to re∣sort to Playes to Play-houses, which either finde or quickly make them Whores. p. 340.341, 349, 356, 360, 362, 370, 389. to 393.419, 434. to 446.453, 662, 457, 458, 992, 993. See Whores. The Devils Sword and Instru∣ment especially when they dance. pag. 228.229, 230, 258.
• Women-Actors, notorious whores. p. 162. 214, 215, 1002, 1003. Vnlawfull. Ibid. Hence Iustinian. Autenticorum Col∣lat. 5. Tit. 4. f. 46. enacted this Law: Scenicas non solum si fidejussores prestent, sed etiam si jus-jurandum dent quod observabunt & impiam com∣plebunt operationem, & quod nunquam ab impia illa & turpi operatione cessabunt, possent sine periculo discedere. Et tale jus-jurandum à scenica praestitum, & fidejussoris datio non tenebit. And good reason: for S. Paul prohibites women to speake publikely in the Church. 1 Cor. 14.34. 1 Tim•• 2.12. And dare then any Christian women be so more then whorishly impudent, as to act, to speake publikely on a Stage, (perchance in mans apparell, and cut haire, here proved sinfull and abominable) in the presence of sundry men and women? Dij ta••em terris aver∣tite p••stem. O let such presidents of im∣pudency, of impiety be never heard of or suffred among Christians.
• Words idle and unprofitable condemned. pag. 128.
• World, the fashions and customes of it not to be followed. p. 18 to 28 57, 58. this world no place of carnall mirth and jollity. p. 293.294, 907, 908.
• Worldly pleasures dangerous, and to bee avoided. p••g. 907.966, 967, 968, 969, 970. fol. 551.

X

• Xenophon his story of the Persian School-master, of the Syracusian and his

• dancing Trull. p. 249.361, 366. f. 515.516.

Y

• Youth how to bee educated; to bee kept from acting, reading and beholding Playes. p. 366.367, 498. See Acting, Bookes, Parents.
• Yvie Garlands not to be worne of Chri∣stians; dressing of houses with it pro∣hibited. p. 21.581, 756. m.

Z

• Zeno Veronensis his censure of Playes and Dancing. p. 670.
• Fr. Zephyrus, his censure of Playes, and wanton Poets. p. 694.
• Tho. Zerula, his censure of Playes. p. 696.
• Th••od Zuinger his censure of Playes and Actors. pag. 694.

The names of many other Authors quoted in this Treatise against Stage-playes, Dancing, &c. I have omitted in this Table for brevity sake, a Catalogue of whose names and Workes you m••y finde p. 32••. to 566.969.668. to 713.843. to 860.882. to 890.

FINIS.