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PC.767.040
2-9 Mar 1767:254, 261 (1/7)
[1 3/4 columns: Continuation of "The Absolute Unlawfulness
of the Stage-entertainment. . ."]
To proceed now to a fourth argument. . . [comparing
divine services to plays] . . . Consider therefore the play-
house, and the matter of the entertainment there, as it
consists of Love-Intreagues, blasphemous passions, profane
discourses, lewd descriptions, filthy jests, and all the
most extravagant rant of wanton, profligate persons of both
sexes . . . So that one may with the same assurance affirm,
that the play0house not only when some very profane play is
on the stage, but in its daily, common entertainments, is as
certainly the House of the Devil, as the church is the House
of God. For, thought the Devil be not professedly
worshipped by hymns directed to him, yet most that is there
sung is to his service; he is there obeyed and pleased in as
certain a manner, as God is worshipped and honoured in the
Church. . .
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