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Show An Addrefs to 'Proteflants. VoL. I. 1679. . Hair, Bttldnefs; and inflead of a Stomac.ber, a Girding of Sackcloth; nnd ~ Burning injlcad of Beauty. Tby Jl!en (fatd God) (hoU (aU by the Sword, and Part I. thy MiglJ/y in tbe War; and btr Gates jhilU lament anJ mourn; jhe btmg de· Sea. 4· Jolnre, jhall fir upoll the Ground. This was alfo the Sin of Tyrur, as we may fee, E::ek. 27. For Pomp and Pride jhe exulled in tbofe Day_s .· Sbe hooPed .m be~· Splendor mtd fumptiiOIIS Living; Her Buildings were Lofty, her furmr.ure Stately, her App:arel Coft .. ly, hut her End war Trouble, mtd her Deftru[!Jon yuy pre at. 4nd God ex· prefly th~eatcns by his Prophet Zepbnma?J; I wr1J p11nijh the Prmcu a'!d tl~t Kings Cbtldren, and aU rb.rt are clot bed vmb firange .Apparfl. What IS this S1rnnge Apparel? Is it }lew Fofoions? t~en we ~re <;Juilty with a Witnefs. {)r is it the F:llhions of Strange Countrter? It IS ft1ll our own Cafe. We have been more careful to receive the Law from Frtmce for our Clothes, than from Chrift for our Converfation; and fo prevalent is the Humour of that Country with us, and powerful the Afcendant it hath over us, that we feem to be Frencbmen living in England. But in this, as alfo in all other Things, the Chri/lian Religi011 excels, and that for the Good of Civil Sociuy. It repro\'es this Excefs, limits the Vain Mind of Man, and teaches that De· cent Plainnefs, which becomes the Providence and Gravity of Civil Gcr vernmenr. Hear the Language of the Holy Apoftles, whofc Dotlrine we all pre' 1 Tim. 2. 91 tend to believe: 1 will therefore (faith Paul} t bat Women adorn Jbemftlver in 10, Jllodefi .Apparel, witb Shamefacednefs and Sobriety, not with Broidered Hair. or Go/J,or Coflly .Array; but (wbicb becometbWomenprofeffing Godlinefs)with 1 Pet. 3. 3, 4· Good W"rks. The fame Dottrine is repeated by the Apoftle Peter, 1Peaking s- to the ChrilHan Women, to whom he wrote, Let not your .Adorning be. that 011tward Adorning of Plaiting tbe Hair, and of wearing of Gold, or D/ put!ing on of .Apparel.; bur let it be the Hidden Man of the Hea~t, in t.b~t mhteb n not Ccrrupublc, even tbe Ornament of a Meek and ~u11t Spmr, wbicb U in the Sight of God of Great Price: For afrer thH Manner in the Old Time, the Holy Women alfo, who trufled in God, Adorned the~[elves. Would to God I could fay for the Women of our Age. that they trufted in God roo, and Aderned themfelves with no other Ornaments, than what agreed with the Modefland Humble Plainnefs of tbofe Chrillian Times! But the Laws of rhe Land, as well as the Chrifiian LJW, reprove this Ex· cefs. They only want to be refrefht and inforced by the Care of our Supe• ors: Were they firialy pur. in Execution~ it would not only prevent much Mifchi~f, and increafe the \Vealth oflhe Kingdom, but make priyate Men in a little Time thank the Juft and Scafonable Severity of the Government. For *would help to keep them within Compafs, to preferve (which is one Way to increafi:) their Eftate; to enlarge their Trade, provide better for their Children, and open their Hands more Libera11y to the Poor: And this I am fure, God requires at our Hands. What I have faid againfl Excefs in Apparel, is alfo applicable to Excefs in Furniture: For as Finery is more valued than Clothes, fo is the Fmm- • ture than the Haufe. lt is a moft inexcufable Superfluity, to beftow an Efiate to line Walls. drefs Cabinets, embroider Beds, with an Hundred<>'" ther unprofitable Pieces of State, fuch as Mafi'y Plate, Rich Cbina, Cofily Pi8:ures, Sculpture, Free-Work, Inlayings, and Painted Windows, of no Ufe in tne 'Earth, only for Sb.ow and Sight: The Int~reft of which 1Money, tO ill employed, might probably maintain the Poor of the Nation. 0 L ord GoJ! Haft rbou given tl.f Plenty, and (hould we fee others want? Should we dot be our De11d WaYs, and let tby Poor go Nr,Jle:l ? Can we fctd our Eyes witb t!JcfeObfcOs,, and not feed the H11ngry with Bread, 11nd fpend our A1oney 11/':. M Lt[eltfs P18ures, but jhut up our Bowels to thy_ Living Image, the Poor nml Xrtd) of tbc Eartb? Rebuke this Evil Mind, and bring down the Pride of aU FlcPJ, 0 Lord! Jon by Name's Sake. The bft Excef.:i is that of Feafling and Voluptuoufnefs, immoderate Eat~ ingand Drinktng, with that Strain of Mirth and Jollity, which is the Mvde and * Vot.. t An Addrefs to 'P1'otejlaniJ. and PraCHce of the Times. Dtves is almoft · ally of rhofe of Note and Eflate . and it is gVJ Into every Family, cfpeciWil1, ~hat ~~e greateft Part of the' Nation JS no:G:~ Wealth, and nor of to rbetr Abtltty, and that is fad But rbeS n >[V.t. 1 ty .7hey mol\ly Stn thar Bulk, that there are more ·&ce, ts for' E.~ 0 11P1110M; nefs 11 fwell'd ro are Precepts of Life 1p the Old and Ne~ Lnw .f1 m~ an~ DfCk'ng. than there grown the B!hle, and I fear is read oftener' ro1b fio o. ?okery has ourIn this Art the Luft of the Flef'h is dee 1 , e, ure, tt 1_s more m Ure. Care of the Stomach as of the Palate d£ ~~~~~bern ~1 r~ere Jj not fo muclt the Guft, the Rehfh that makes the 'v1a 1 • as ea ure · t ts the Tafte, i! preferred before tbe Meat. Twelve Pen~~-sw~~ towp fi t~refore t?e Sarocr: lirigs of Cookery, may happen to make a Fachio oabt:n' WtthFIVeShii· Mutton, or any other Thing, is become dull Food .11 But b 'fhh pl¥n B~ef, Natural Rehlh is lofl in the Crowd of h C k' t' . y r at Ime t~s fufficiently difguifed to the Eaters i: ~affio s d ngred~nts, and the Meat Rare Dt/h. Bur there is one Th(n ' . . es u~ er a rencb 1\'nme for a condel]lna~le ;_ it deftroys Hofpitafi:;, ~~d ~~~~:;h~P~o:~2f orttina~ly pence, whtch IS now flung away upon a Vtcious PJlare . or at x· ~hT:bd.ci ~~~o~::~~r l.::&r~!~~~:~/N:r:~e~~:· b'It ~~Yi•nn~i~IVJ~~:If: ~0ab!fi~ethe0P~~efde~~;~} ta~of; had _rhen) Empty Difhes0~:· h;k. 0 T~~ Man's Ufe, and facrificing their Poor ri.?::'~goto~~r ~~~ '{i~aersur~ made for Luft. Tis ~gain.fi: fuch as t~efe, the Creation groans, and fr~m ~t~~e ~~~ temper~nce tt cnes robe delivered, Rom. Vlil. 211 22. m~f In/MAge; had a Conrroverfie Wtth Voluptuous Men, and the Tefii· ~ Pm I. SeQ 4• ~ o acreu Records are flrong and numerous aga1nft them . 1 w1II :entlEOaDa few ofDthem. Vo/Jiptuollfnefs was the Sm of the Old World .. Tbeu Gen 6 ere tmg and.l nnlu~ Mdrrym• and M ' ' ' Luft_ of the Eve the L '.l' h Fk?i. d glvmz m nrr~t~ge, p!etljing the Mat. 24· 371 .1' b Fl. d 'T' . 11 01 t e ep,, an the Pnde of Life un11! the D 1y 3'S, 39• 01 ft ~ . oo . h1s alfo was the Condition of Sodom1 Chntt' htmfelf has pre 1t In thefe Words : In the Days of Lot they J1d Eat be D -ex• Boushr, they Sold, they Planted. they Budded. the fame 'rf.u ~h /Lnk, tbeJ rekn. J9· out Df Sod om It Ra nrd R d B r}/ 'fi J' aJ a ot went u e '7· 281 th lJ Th 'p h 1 !;'_ Ire an . r~m one rom Heaven, and deflroyed 29. em n · e rop et ~die/ has tt m rhefe Words fpeakmg to Jeruf. /em, Behold, thn was the lmquuy of thy 'Sifler Soddm R d R l if. aj E2eko 16.491 jh /Jre.flaJ, ant Abundance of ldlenefs wasm her and her Dauihre:: .e}..rc~r::,. J:d s6. e rengt en the Hand -of the Poor and Needy, nnd they were Ha11 ht and comm!rt!d Fornunt10n before me; t herefore I took them away, n.t 1 }au/Good ~nd It Is. very Remarkable, that the Voluptuoufnefs of the Ifraclller wa~ ]Oyned With ~hen ~dolatry .. It is faid, that when Mofes was in rhe Mount Exod'. 3'2 .. 28. the People, Impatient of h1s Stay, Sat down to Eat and to Dnnk nnd to}; ZfP to Play: They had got a Call of Gold, and were Dancing abo'ut lt· but tt was a d1fmal Ball, a.nd_ they paid dear for their Junker, for feveral Thou .. fands were fl?m; and 1~ ts fat~, That God Plagued the People. Job's Chtl· dren had as 111. Succefs 10 theu Feftivals, they went from Houfe to Houfe Job • 1 , Entmg and Drmlung ; and a Tempefl rofe, and fmolt tht Four Corners nf the 1 ~1 lh11je, and 1t feD and k1ll'd them. Bur mofi exprefs is that Complaint of God by the Mouth of the Prophet Jlmos, againft the Volu_ptuous Jews • Te that put fo far nwny the Evil Dny, and carife the Sent oj Violence to come near; that be upon Beds of Ivory, nndjlretch tbemftlves upon tht1r Co11cbes and eat the Lambs out of the Flock, and Calves out of the mid /I of tbe Stal That Chaunt to the So11nJ of the Viol, and mvent to them/elves Jnflru111enrs of .Mujick like DaVld: That drmk Bowls of Wme and anomt tlumft!ves wuh A ~ the CbufOmtmenrs; but they are not gruved 'for the .Ajb81on of J ofeph.' ~~~~ i. ~n~ Therefore now fon!J they go Cnpr1ve wah the Ftrjl thar go Cnp11ve, and the Ch. 8~ 2q.Bt~ nqllet of them that ftretched themfelvts }hall be removed. .A11d 1 w1U t11rn your Feafls mto Mournmg, and afl your Songt into L4mentaJion 1 anrl I wi!J 111a~e rbe End thertoj a bimr Day. . . IlhaU |