A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

and in gratitude commanded by these Infernal Spirits to celebrate night Plays to them, which he and they accordingly did for three nights together. The next may be that which is reported by Titus Livius, lib. 2. and by Augustine lib. 4. de Civ. Dei, cap. 26, and by Lud. Vives in his notes upon that chapter, concerning one Titus Latinus or Larinus, who in the second Consulship of M. Minutius and Aur. Sempronius, Ann. ab •urb. cond. 263. when the Gods were displeased, was warned in a dream to go to the Senate, and tell them that they were not satisfied with the Presultor or Dancer before the last Plays, in which Plays they take pleasure, being recreated by them, and that unless the Plays were renewed by their order with greater state and sumptuousness (called by Florus in his Breviary on that Book, Religious Cer • monies) some great calamity should be inflicted (or as others, the present not be removed) which the man not doing was sharply rebuked, and yet delaying out of reveren •e to the Senate, and from fear that himself should be looked at as frantic, his son was taken from him; and yet still deferring, he was seized in all his joints with a tormenting disease, so that he could not stir; and at the last telling his friends he was by them willed to acquaint the Senate, and being carried to them, and having done his errand, was presently restored to his health (so much power may the Devil in the righteous Judgment of God have granted to him, to seduce men unto; ⟨image 19⟩and detain them in his worship and service) wherewith the Senate was so much taken, that they forthwith commanded the Plays to be celebrated with greater care, cost, and show, then formerly. The third may be that spoke of also by Titus Livius lib. 7. In the Consulship of C. Sulpitius Peticus, and C. Lucinius Stolo, Ann. ab urb. cond. 390. in the time of the great and raging pestilence wherein Furius Camillus, Dictator and Deliverer of Rome from the Gauls died;

and in gratitude commanded by these Infernal Spirits to celebrate night Playes to them, which he and they accordingly did for three nights together. The next may be that which is reported by Titus Livius, lib. 2. and by Augustine lib. 4. de Civ. Dei, cap. 26, and by Lud. Vives in his notes upon that chapter, concerning one Titus Latinus or Larinus, who in the second Consulship of M. Minutius and Aur. Sempronius, Ann. ab urb. cond. 263. when the Gods were displeased, was warned in a dream to go to the Senate, and tell them that they were not satisfied with the Presultor or Dancer before the last Playes, in which Playes they take pleasure, being recreated by them, and that unless the Playes were renewed by their order with greater state and sumptuousness (called by Florus in his Breviary on that Book, Religious Cer monies) some great calamity should be inflicted (or as others, the present not be removed) which the man not doing was sharply rebuked, and yet delaying out of reveren e to the Senate, and from fear that himself should be looked at as frantick, his son was taken from him; and yet still deferring, he was seized in all his joynts with a tormenting disease, so that he could not stir; and at the last telling his friends he was by them willed to acquaint the Senate, and being caried to them, and having done his errand, was presently restored to his health (so much power may the Devil in the righteous Judgment of God have granted to him, to seduce men unto;