A26879:1799
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their householdsThe catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their households : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small catechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1683
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.
Q. 21. Is it unlawful for Men and Women, especially the unmarried, to set out themselves in such Ornaments of Apparel, as may make them seem most comely and desirable?
Q. 21. Is it unlawful for Men and Women, especially the unmarryed, to set out themselves in such Ornaments of Apparel, as may make them seem most comel• and desireable?
A. 1. The common Rule is to be clothed wit• decent but modest Apparel, such as shows the Body without deceit to be what it is, which is neither loathsome, nor alluring. 2. And persons must b• invited to conjugal desires, by Truth and not by D• ceit, and by the matters of real worth, such as wi• dom, godliness, patience and meekness, and not b• fleshly snares: For Marriages so contracted are like to turn to continued misery to both, when the Body is known without the Ornaments, and deceit and the diseases of the Soul become vexatious.
A. 1. The common Rule is to be cloathed wit• decent but modest Apparel, such as shews the Body without deceit to be what it is, which is neithe• loathsome, nor alluring. 2. And persons must b• invited to conjugal desires, by Truth and not by D• ceit, and by the matters of real worth, such as wi• dom, godliness, patience and meekness, and not b• fleshly snares: For Marriages so contracted are lik• to turn to continued misery to both, when the Body is known without the Ornaments, and decei and the diseases of the Soul become vexatious.