A10335:223
Th'overthrow of stage-plays, by the way of controversy betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes…Th'overthrow of stage-playes, by the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes…
Th'overthrow of stage-plays, by the way of controversy betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes wherein all the reasons that can be made for them are notably refuted; th'objections answered, and the case so cleared and resolved, as that the judgement of any man, that is not froward and perverse, may easily be satisfied. Wherein is manifestly proved, that it is not only unlawful to be an actor, but a beholder of those vanities. Whereunto are added also and annexed in th'end certain latin letters betwixt the said Master Rainoldes, and D. Gentiles, reader of the civill law in Oxford, concerning the same matter.Th'overthrow of stage-playes, by the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes wherein all the reasons that can be made for them are notably refuted; th'objections aunswered, and the case so cleared and resolved, as that the iudgement of any man, that is not froward and perverse, may easelie be satisfied. Wherein is manifestly proved, that it is not onely vnlawfull to bee an actor, but a beholder of those vanities. Wherevnto are added also and annexed in th'end certeine latine letters betwixt the sayed Maister Rainoldes, and D. Gentiles, reader of the civill law in Oxford, concerning the same matter.
Middelburg: printed by Richard Schilders, 1599
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oLactantius, ad errorem quorundam minuendum qui affectus vitia esse concedunt, sed ea mediocriter temperant: assignandi, inquit, fuerunt affectus certis temporibus, & rebus, & locis: ne vitia sint quibus rectè uti licet. Tu vocabulum eius, rectè, ad omnes circumstantias relatum, de quibus pAristoteles quum distinguit justa ab iis quae justè fiunt, & virtutis naturam aperit, ad unicam restringis: & mendacia in rectum finem destinata, (quo modo possunt periuria, sacrilegia, blasphemiae,) rectè fieri dicis, eoque non esse vitia. qApostolus ait non facienda mala ut eveniant bona: concedens posse bona intentione fieri quae tamen mala sint, ut rSaul exemplo suo •ocuit. Tu mala esse negas quae fiunt ut eveniant bona: eum enim esse abusum malorum; & abusum malorum malum non esse, at bonum. Ac lectorem mones te in tota silla disputatione non dicere ullibi, mala facienda, ut bona adveniant: in qua tamen laudas istam poëtae antiqui sententiam, Quum vitia prosunt, peccat qui recté facit.
oLactantius, ad errorem quorundam minuendum qui affectus vitia esse concedunt, sed ea mediocriter temperant: assignandi, inquit, fuerunt affectus certis temporibus, & rebus, & locis: ne vitia sint quibus rectè uti licet. Tu vocabulum eius, rectè, ad omnes circumstantias relatum, de quibus pAristoteles quum distinguit iusta ab iis quae iustè fiunt, & virtutis naturam aperit, ad unicam restringis: & mendacia in rectum finem destinata, (quo modo possunt periuria, sacrilegia, blasphemiae,) rectè fieri dicis, eoque non esse vitia. qApostolus ait non facienda mala ut eveniant bona: concedens posse bona intentione fieri quae tamen mala sint, ut r