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The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered. : As also the Christian directed how he may perform it in [brace] religious duties, natural actions, his particular vocation, his family directions, and his own recreations. / By George Swinnock ...
London: printed for T.P., 1662
Treatise › Chapter 24: How a Christian may exercise himself to Godliness in his Apparel and Sleep.
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4. To distinguish Sexes and persons. One end of Apparel is to difference Sexes; The Law of nature, and the custom of all Nations, do teach a ⟨p. 429⟩distinction between the Habits of Men and Women. God himself in Scripture doth expressly command it. The Woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's Apparel: for all that do so, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God, Deut. 22.5. Those that have worn the Apparel of women as Caligula, Clodius and others, have been noted for the worst of men.
4. To distinstuish Sexes and persons. One end of Apparel is to difference Sexes; The Law of nature, and the custome of all Nations, do teach a ⟨p. 429⟩distinction between the Habits of Men and Women. God himself in Scripture doth expresly command it. The Woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a womans Apparel: for all that do so, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God, Deut. 22.5. Those that have worn the Apparel of women as Caligula, Clodius and others, have been noted for the worst of men.
Another end of Apparel is to distinguish persons. The Nobility among the Romans, were anciently distinguished from the meaner sort by their Ornaments about their Shoos; As God hath made a difference among men, some are high, some are low, some are rich, some are poor; so doth he also allow a difference in their Apparel, Behold they which are gorgeously apparelled, are in Kings Houses, Luk. 7.25. Robes and Rich attire become Judges, and Justices. They are honourable additions to their Office, and cause reverential apprehensions of their persons. The habits of men should be suitable to their conditions and honours,