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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.
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.
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.
2. Gravity, Ancient men, those that are in seats of justice, and professors, must not take up every new-fangle fashion. Clothes of light colours on their backs will not be comely. Joseph a child might be handsome enough in a particoloured coat, but not so a man. When a grave Roman Petitioned the Emperor for a favour, and was denied, and had afterwards coloured his hair, shaved himself, and in light clothes requested the same courtesy, he was wittily answered by Caesar, who understood the fraud, I denied your Father yesterday; and should I grant it you to day, he might take it ill.