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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
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.
When the Israelites would express their sorrow for the sad tidings of God's refusing to go before them. It is said, they laid aside their Ornaments, Exodus 33.4.
Though they had a command for it, yet nature it self did teach it them. As it did the King of Nineveh who laid aside his robe when he fasted and mourned.
Purple and scarlet and shining apparel are not suitable to such a duty, nature it self being judg.
Non est conveniens luctibus ille color.
And verily those gay and gaudy dresses which multitudes garb themselves with at this day, are no whit suitable to the sad times upon which God hath cast us.