There are two especial virtues, which preserve chastity. Modesty, and Sobriety: Modesty, is a virtue which keepeth in each work an holy decorum, or comeliness: and it is seen, 1. In the countenance and eyes, namely, when they neither express, nor excite the concupiscence of the hart. Job. 31.1. I made a covenant with mine eyes, why then should I think on a maid? Gene. 24.64. Rebekah lift up her eyes, and when she saw Izhak, she lighted down from the camel. ver. 65. So she took a veil, and covered her face. Proverb. 7.13. She caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said unto him, &c. In words: when a mans talk is decent, in speaking of such things, which through our sins, we cannot but be ashamed of. Genesis 4.1. Then Adam knew Hevah his wife: who, &c. Psal. 51.1. A Psal• of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he bad g• in to Bathsheba. Isaiah. 7.28. In that day shall the Lord shave with a refer that is bired, even by them beyond the river, by the king of As•, the head and ⟨image 90⟩the hear of the feet, and it shall consume the heard. Judg. 3.24. When he was gone out, his servants came: who seeing that the doors of the parlour were shut, they said, Surely he covereth his feet, (that is, he doth his easement) in his summer chamber. Again, a mans talk must be little and submissive. Matth. 12.19. Behold my servant whom I have chosen, he shall not strive nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. Pro. 10.19. In many words there cannot want iniquity: but he that refraineth his lips, is wise. And it is a note of a strumpet to be a giglot, and loud tongued. Proverbs 7.11. She is babbling and loud. In apparel we must observe an holy comeliness. Titus. 2.3. The elder woman must be of such behaviour as becometh holiness. Holy comeliness, is that which expresseth to the eye the sincerity, that is, godliness, temperance, and gravity either of man or woman. This decency will more plainly appear, if we consider the ends of apparel, which are in number five. 1. Necessity, to the end that our bodies must be defenced against the extremity of parching heat, and pinching cold. 2. Honesty, that that deformity of our naked bodies might be covered, which immediately followed the transgression of our first parents. 3.
There are two especiall vertues, which preserue chastitie. Modestye, and Sobrietie: Modestie, is a vertue which keepeth in eache woorke an holy decorum, or comelynes: and it is seene, 1. In the countenance and eyes, namelye, when they neither expresse, nor excite the concupiscence of the hart. Iob. 31.1. I made a couenant with mine eyes, why then should I think on a maid? Gene. 24.64. Rebekah lift vp her eyes, and when she saw Izhak, she lighted down from the camell. ver. 65. So she tooke a vayle, and couered her face. Prouerb. 7.13. She caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, sayde vnto him, &c. In woordes: when a mans talke is decent, in speaking of such thinges, which through our sinnes, we cannot but be ashamed of. Genesis 4.1. Then Adam knew Hevah his wife: who, &c. Psal. 51.1. A Psal• of Dauid, when the Prophet Nathan came vnto him, after he bad g• in to Bethsheba. Esay. 7.28. In that day shall the Lord shaue with a refer that is bired, euen by them beyond the riuer, by the king of As•, the head and ⟨image 90⟩the heare of the feet, and it shall consume the heard. Iudg. 3.24. When he was gone out, his seruants came: who seeing that the doores of the parlar were shut, they said, Surely he couereth his feete, (that is, he doth his easement) in his sommer chamber. Againe, a mans talke must be little and submisse. Matth. 12.19. Beholde my seruant whom I haue chosen, he shall not striue nor crye, neither shall any man heare his voice in the streets. Pro. 10.19. In many words there cannot want iniquitie: but he that refraineth his lips, is wise. And it is a note of a strumpet to be a giglot, and loud tongued. Prouerbes 7.11. She is babling and loude. In apparell we must obserue an holy comelynes. Titus. 2.3. The elder woman must be of such behauiour as becommeth holines. Holye comelynes, is that which expresseth to the eye the synceritye, that is, godlynes, temperance, and grauitye either of man or woman. This decencye will more plainelye appeere, if we consider the endes of apparell, which are in number fiue. 1. Necessitie, to the ende that our bodyes must be defenced against the extreamitie of parching heate, and pinching colde. 2. Honestie, that that deformitye of our naked bodies might be couered, which immediatly followed the transgression of our firste parents. 3.
