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The reformation of covetousness Written upon the 6. chapter of Matthew, from the 19.…The reformation of couetousnesse Written vpon the 6. chapter of Mathew, from the 19.…
The reformation of covetousness Written upon the 6. chapter of Matthew, from the 19. verse to the end of the said chapter. By William Perkins.The reformation of couetousnesse Written vpon the 6. chapter of Mathew, from the 19. verse to the ende of the said chapter. By William Perkins.
London: printed by T. Creede for Nicholas Ling, 1603
THE REFORmation of Covetousness.THE REFORmation of Couetousnesse.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There is a moderate care for raiment, which is not here forbidden;⟨p. 168⟩ but the other, that is, the inordinate & immoderate care: and it may be conceived diversly.
There is a moderate care for rayment, which is not here forbidden;⟨p. 168⟩ but the other, that is, the inordinate & immoderate care: and it may bee conceiued diuersly.
First, care for raiment is then inordinate, when men care not only for apparel necessary, but for abundance and superfluity, for that which is more then necessary. As, when men desire always to be in the fashion, and to change their apparel as the fashion changeth. They are carried with an ungodly care.
First, care for rayment is then inordinate, when men care not onely for apparell necessarie, but for aboundance and superfluitie, for that which is more then necessarie. As, when men desire alwayes to bee in the fashion, and to chaunge their apparell as the fashion chaungeth. They are carried with an vngodly care.
Secondly, when men care for costly apparel, beyond their degree, state, and ability: that is also inordinate care for apparel. Example of this also is risen in our time, when every ordinary man desires to be fine in apparel, and no man is content with that which is decent⟨p. 169⟩