Apparel, as ufedfir this Carnal End, &c. 139 ling, when he fees that he mull for ever leave all that whichhe let fo much by, and which bath coil him fo dear ? if he fee his heart but on a Horfe, or any creature, the lots of it is a double fuffering. Much more will he be wounded with the .lots of.all, that his mind was fo much let upon. Remember therefore Chriftians,that as thefe accommodations are mercies which you mull faithfully ufe, when they are call upon you ; fo they are fnares not to, be fought after ; and matter for your felf-denial, to negleet. As they are Provition for the &III to fulfill its detires, you mull not know them. You have a bailding of God tomind and look after ; a konfe not made with handi,eternal inthe heaven:, and it better befeemeth you, earnejlly to roan, to be fo cloatbed,, that mortality may be fw41- lowedup oflife, z Cor. 5. 1, 2,4. Poffefs prefent things as not poffeiling them ; and ufe them as nor ablating them, for the formof them paffeth away. CHAP. X Apparel, as mired for thia Carnal End, &c,; 9, Nother Object of fenfullity to be denied; is, Apparel, 41 defiredfor this Carnal end. Though cloathing be a confequenc of fin, yet now to man in this neceitty, it is a mer- cy and a duty, fo be it we ufe it with fuch cautions as in the fore. faid cafes is expreffed. a. That our end be the furnifhing our frail bodies for the workof God, and the preferving them from that lhame, and cold, and hurt which would unfit ,us for his fer. vice. 2. And that our apparel be fitted as near as we can to thefe ends ; that is, to healthful warmth and comelinefs : and that under the name of comlinefs we do not fit them to carnal ends, to let us out to the eyes ofmen, and to raife their elleem of our worth or comelinefs of perfon : but be fatisfied if we avoid the Clime of nakednefs,& contemptible unhandfornnefs. 3.To which end we fhould fee that we affeCt not to rife abbve thole of our own rank, nor equal our felves in apparel withour fuperiors:but T 2 CO
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