Note 83 — Chapter XVIII · LITURGICAL PLAYS

Hooper, Early Writings (Parker Soc.), 45 ‘The ploughman, be he never so unlearned, shall better be instructed of Christ’s death and passion by the corn that he soweth in the field, and likewise of Christ’s resurrection, than by all the dead posts that hang in the church, or are pulled out of the sepulchre with Christus resurgens. What resemblance hath the taking of the cross out of the sepulchre and going a procession with it, with the resurrection of Christ? None at all: the dead post is as dead when they sing Iam non moritur, as it was when they buried it with In pace factus est locus eius’: cf. Ridley, Works (Parker Soc.), 67.