Theol. I know right well that apparel in its own nature is a thing indifferent: but lewd, wanton, immodest, and offensive apparel is not indifferent. For all such abuse taketh away the indifferency of them, and maketh them sinful and evil, by circumstance. For otherwise why should the Lord threaten by his Prophet, that he would visit the Princes, and the Kings children, and all such as were clothed with strange apparel, that is, the fashions of other countries? Zephan. 1.8. Again, why should the Lord so plague the proud dames, and mincing minions of Jerusalem, for their pride and vanity in attire, if there were no evil i• such kind of abuse? The Lord saith thus ⟨p. 48⟩in the third of Isaiah, against those brave and gallant dames, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out necks, and with wandering eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and make a tinkling with their feet: therefore shall the Lord make the heads of the daughters of Zion bald, and the Lord shall discover their secret parts. In that day shall the Lord take away the ornament of the slippers, and the calls, and the round tires, the sweet balls, and the bracelets, and the bonnets, the tires of the head, and the slops, the head-bands, and the tablets, the earrings, the rings, and the mufflers, the costly apparel, and the veils, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, and the glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the lawns. And in stead of sweet savour there shall be stink: and in stead of a girdle, a rent: and in stead of dressing of the hair, baldness: and in stead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth: and burning in stead of beauty. Then shall her gates mourn and lament: and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Thus we see how terribly the Lord threateneth the gallant dames of Jerusalem, for their excessive and abominable pride. And this may well be a mirror for the proud minions of our age: which assuredly may well fear ⟨p. 49⟩the Lord will bring some such judgement upon them, as he did upon the daughters of Jerusalem. For their sin is as great in this kind, as was the daughters of Zion, and God is the same God now that he was then to punish it.
Theol. I know right well that apparell in its own nature is a thing indifferent: but lewd, wanton, immodest, and offensive apparell is not indifferent. For all such abuse taketh away the indifferency of them, and maketh them sinfull and evill, by c•rcumstance. For otherwise why should the Lord threaten by his Prophet, that he would visit the Princes, and the Kings children, and all such as were cloathed with strange apparell, that is, the fashions of other countries? Zephan. 1.8. Againe, why should the Lord so plague the proud dames, and mincing minions of Jerusalem, for their pride and vanity in attire, if there were no evill i• such kind of abuse? The Lord saith thus ⟨p. 48⟩in the third of Esay, against those brave and gallant dames, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and walk with stretched-out necks, and with wandring eyes, walking and mincing as they goe, and make a tinkling with their feet: therefore shall the Lord make the heads of the daughters of Sion bald, and the Lord shall discover their secret parts. In that day shall the Lord take away the ornament of the slippers, and the calls, and the round tires, the sweet balls, and the bracelets, and the bonnets, the tires of the head, and the slops, the head-bands, and the tablets, the earings, the rings, and the mufflers, the costly apparell, and the veiles, and the wimples, and the crisping pinnes, and the glasses, and the fine linnen, and the hoods, and the lawns. And in stead of sweet savour there shall be stink: and in stead of a girdle, a rent: and in stead of dressing of the haire, baldnesse: and in stead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth: and burning in stead of beauty. Then shall her gates mourn and lament: and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Thus we see how terribly the Lord threatneth the gallant dames of Jerusalem, for their excessive and abominable pride. And this may well be a mirrour for the proud minious of our age: which assuredly may well fear ⟨p. 49⟩the Lord will bring some such judgement upon them, as he did upon the daughters of Jerusalem. For their sin is as great in this kind, as was the daughters of Sion, and God is the same God now that he was then to punish it.
