and it is a Vile Affront unto God, for a Woman to Deface the Workmanship of the Almighty there; by such an Inversion, as the Hebrew word for this Painting Signifies. Now, the Paint which is laid upon it, not only Disfigures the Face for the present, but also do's Corrupt it and Corrode it, and Poison it, and hasten Wrinkles and Ruins thereupon: it will Rent the Face, at the Scripture speaks of it; and I am sure, it should R•nt the Heart, of them that use it. Besides, Our Lord Rebuked it, as a base Hypocrisy for Persons to alter their Faces that they might appear to be Fasting when they were so indeed; how much more basely Hypocritical is it, for Persons to alter their Faces ▪ that they might appear to be Comely when indeed they are not so? There is no Sincerity in these Butterflies. It is a Cheat which there is no Enduring of. The more Moral Heathen showed a Great Indignation at it; and shall we think a Virtuous Woman can allow of it? And al•s, what a World of Precious Time, is thus th••wn away, by poor Creatures, who are so taken up with Painting of the Sepulchres in which their Souls ly• Dead ▪ as that they do Little or Nothing •or the Beautifying of •hose Black Forlorn, Forsaken S•uls▪ The sin committed in Paintings we must suppose committed in Patches too. When the Face is Patched the Heart is Rotten, the Heart ha's m•re Black-Spots than the Face upon it. Some unhappy Ladies by the Just Judgement ⟨p. 19⟩of God, have brought forth Children with Natural Patches on: so ha's God been offended at them. The Ancients tell us, That the Devil was the Inventor of this Hellish Art; and it can be nothing but either Lust or Pride (both Brats of the Devil!) that shall dispose any to the using of it. If they that Please men, much more, I am sure, they that thus Cheat […], cannot be, The Servants of Christ; Tertullian well calls them, The Handmaids of the Devil; nor when they Paint their Bodies, do they Glorify the Lord with their Bodies. A Virtuous Woman would be loth to follow no better Patterns than Jezebel, or Maximilla, both of which Woeful Creatures have this related of them, That they Painted their Faces, For such would She leave these f•ul Paintings; and now the old Picts are dead, She would not help to Revive that Pagan Generation, or make her self a Sister to the Squaws in the Thickets of America. Nor would She be in the way of such Thunder-bolts, as Dr.
and it is a Vile Affront unto God, for a Woman to Deface the Workmanship of the Almighty there; by such an Inversion, as the Hebrew word for this Painting Signifies. Now, the Paint which is laid upon it, not only Disfigures the Face for the present, but also do's Corrupt it and Corrode it, and Poison it, and hasten Wrinkles and Ruines thereupon: it will Rent the Face, at the Scripture speaks of it; and I am sure, it should R•nt the Heart, of them that use it. Besides, Our Lord Rebuked it, as a base Hypocrisy for Persons to alter their Faces that they might appear to be Fasting when they were so indeed; how much more basely Hypocritical is it, for Persons to alter their Faces ▪ that they might appear to be Comely when indeed they are not so? There is no Sincerity in these B•tterflies. It is a Cheat which there is no Enduring of. The more Moral Heathen shew•d a Great Indigna•ion at it; and shall we think a Vertuous Woman can allow of it? And al•s, what a World of P•ecious Time, is thus th••wn away, by poor Creatures, who are so taken up with Painting of the Sepulchers in which their Souls ly• Dead ▪ as that they do Little or Nothing •or the Beautif•ing of •hose Black F•rlorn, Forsak'n S•uls▪ The sin commi•ted in Paintings we must suppose committed in Patches too. When the Face is Patched the Heart is Rotten, the Heart ha's m•re Black-Spots than the Face upon it. Some unhappy Ladies by the Just Judgement ⟨p. 19⟩of God, have brought forth Children with Natural Patches on: so ha's God been offended at them. The Ancients tell us, That the Divel was the Inventor of this H•llish Art; and it can be nothing but either Lust or Pride (both Brats of the Divel!) that shall dispose any to the using of it. If they that Please men, much more, I am sure, they that thus Cheat , cannot be, The Servants of Christ; Tertullian well calls them, The Handmaids of the Divel; nor when they Paint their Bodies, do they Glorify the Lord with thir Bodies. A Vertuous Woman would be loth to follow no better Patterns than Jezabel, or Maximilla, both of which Woful Creatures have this related of them, That they Painted their Faces, For such would She leave these ful Painings; and now the old Picts are dead, She would not help to Revive that Pagan Generation, or make her self a Sster to the Squaws in the Thickets of America. Nor would She be in the way of such Thunder-bolts, as Dr.
