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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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3. I shall speak to the virtues in Apparel which must be manifested.
3. I shall speak to the vertues in Apparel which must be manifested.
1. Modesty. One end of Apparel is to cover our shame and nakedness; those therefore that discover their naked necks and breasts, cross this end, and glory in their shame. Such women proclaim their wantonness. Lascivious habits are unhandsome and unholy; That Women adorn themselves with modest Apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broidered Hair, or Gold, or Pearls, or costly array, 1 Tim. 2.9. Modesty is a woman's special beauty, and a needful virtue in them that are the weaker Vessels. As some tempt men to folly by their tongues, so others by their attire; this the very Heathen were so sensible of, that Zalucus the Law-giver of Locris enacted, That no woman should be attended with above one Maid in the Street, except she were drunk; that she should not wear embroidered nor undecent Apparel, but when she intended to play the Whore.
1. Modesty. One end of Apparel is to cover our shame and nakedness; those therefore that discover their naked necks and breasts, cross this end, and glory in their shame. Such women proclaim their wantonness. Lascivious habits are unhandsom and unholy; That Women adorn themselves with modest Apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broydered Hair, or Gold, or Pearls, or costly array, 1 Tim. 2.9. Modesty is a womans special beauty, and a needful vertue in them that are the weaker Vessels. As some tempt men to folly by their tongues, so others by their attire; this the very Heathen were so sensible of, that Zalucus the Law-giver of Locris enacted, That no woman should be attended with above one Maid in the Street, except she were drunk; that she should not wear embroydered nor undecent Apparel, but when she intended to play the Whore.