Plays of Our Forefathers and Some of the Traditions Upon which They Were FoundedDuffield, 1907 - 349 pages |
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Adam allegorical angels Antichrist apocalypse appears archangel Balaam behold Beverley Boy Bishop Caiaphas called CHAPTER character Chester plays Christ Christian church clergy comedy comic Cornish Corpus Christi Corpus Christi plays Coventry crafts Cross Cursor Cursor Mundi death Devil dramatic dramatised earlier early ecclesiastical Enoch episode Feast festival Fools fourteenth century French Gospel Gospel of Nicodemus guild hand Harrowing of Hell heaven Herod Holy Rood-Tree humour Innocents interlude Isaac Jesus Jews Joseph Joseph of Arimathea Judas King later Leach Legenda Aurea liturgical Lord Lucifer Magdalene manuscript Mary medieval middle miracle plays moral mystery N-Town Nicholas Nicodemus Oil of Mercy original pageants Paradise Passion performed Peter Comestor Pilate poem present priest prophets realistic religious Resurrection romantic saints satire says scene scriptural Seth sources stanza story temple Testament thee thou tion tradition trope unto Vice Virgin Wakefield Wakefield cycle written York cycle York plays
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Page 96 - And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought, and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Page 113 - Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition : who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
Page 88 - For thou hast said in thine heart. I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Page 10 - I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh : there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 96 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and cast them to the earth...
Page 33 - Ccelestis, surrounded with his Angels ; on the second appeared the Holy Saints, and glorified men ; and the last and lowest was occupied by mere men who had not yet passed from this transitory life to the regions of eternity.
Page 96 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Page 96 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Page 7 - And saying this, let him rise, and lift the veil, and show them the place bare of the cross, but only the cloths laid there in which the cross was wrapped. And when they have seen this, let them set down the thuribles which they...
Page 96 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.