A37049:1225
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
2. Lightness ▪ and unstableness, charged on Reuben when he defiled his Fathers bed, Gen. 19.4. and by the Apostle, keeping at home is (Tit. 2.5.) joined with chastity, modesty, and shamefastness; there is a g •dding, and a so called furthiness, especially in women, more especially young women, which is exceeding offensive, and yet exceeding rife; it may be it were more fitly called impudence, or imprudent boldness, which maketh them run to all spectacles and shows, to speak in all discourses (which guilt crosses the character that one gives of a modest Virgin, that, She loves rather to loose her self in a modest silence, then to be found in a bold discourse) and to hazard upon all companies, exceeding unsuitable to that modesty and shamefastness which is particularly called for in that Sex. Take in here also the manner of going, mincing, or tripping nicely, and making a tinkling with their feet, spoken of Isaiah 3.16. and touched at a little before.
2. Lightness ▪ and unstableness, charged on Reuben when he defiled his Fathers bed, Gen. 19.4. and by the Apostle, keeping at home is (Tit. 2.5.) joyned with chastity, modesty, and shamefastness; there is a g •dding, and a so called furthiness, especially in women, more especially young women, which is exceeding offensive, and yet exceeding rife; it may be it were more sitly called impudence, or imprudent boldness, which maketh them run to all spectacles and shews, to speak in all discourses (which guilt crosses the character that one gives of a modest Virgin, that, She loves rather to loose her self in a modest silence, then to be found in a bold discourse) and to hazard upon all companies, exceceding unsutable to that modesty and shamefastness which is particularly called for in that Sex. Take in here also the manner of going, minsing, or tripping nicely, and making a tinkling with their feet, spoken of