Imitation and caution for Christian woman

In her ^xConversation] which was blameless and harmless, she being of a meek and quiet spirit, adorning her self as a woman professing godliness, not exceeding her husbands rank, and professing that if it had not been for her husbands credit, (men now adays being judged penurious if their Dames go not fine) she would not have put on some of her apparel; and was so far from ^ypriding her self in her clothes, that she was often heard to say, What a burden and expense of time is this dressing and undressing? how hard is it to distinguish women professing godliness, from the profane, by their outward garb! The fault is acknowledged, but how few reform it?

In her ^xConversation] which was blamelesse and harmlesse, she being of a meek and quiet spirit, adorning her self as a woman professing godliness, not exceeding her husbands ranck, and professing that if it had not been for her husbands credit, (men now adayes being judged penurious if their Dames go not fine) she would not have put on some of her apparel; and was so far from ^ypriding her self in her cloaths, that she was often heard to say, What a burden and expence of time is this dressing and undressing? how hard is it to distinguish women professing godlinesse, from the profane, by their outward garb! The fault is acknowledged, but how few reforme it?

1. xPhil. 2. 15. 1 Pet. 3. 4. 1 Tim. 2. 9, 10.
2. yJer. 2. 32. Isa. 3. 18, 19, &c.