140 Apparel, as nfedfor this Carnal End, &c. go with the lower fort of our condition. 4. And that we imitate not the fafbions of light and vain perfons ; but keep company in our attire with the moil wife and fober , and grave perfons about us. 5. And that we bellow no needlefs col' upon our at- tire, becaufe we mull be accountable for all that God entrufteth us with. 6. And that we change not cauflrfly. Thus muff ap- parel be ufed: the cheap:II that is warm and comeiy,according to the fafhion ofthe gravett perfons of our rank, and the towel of them. Bur, alas, this chilclifh trifle the Devil bath made a bait of fen- fuality. The care that people have about it, the coil they be- low on fuperfluities , their defire to go with the higheft of their rank fay nothing of mutable and immodell fafhi- ons , do ew to what end it is that they ufe it. I defire thee kind of people to think of theft few things that I (hall fay to them. I. This vanityof apparel, is the certain effect of the vanity of your mind : you openly proclaimyour felves to be perfons ofa foolifh, childifh temper, and poor underfianding Among the moil ungodly people, they that have but common wifdom, do look upon this vanity of inordinate apparel as quite below them. And therefore its commonly taken to be the fpecial fin ofwomen, and children, and light-headed , filly , empty men. Thole that have no inward worth to commend them to the world, are filly fools indeed, if they thinkany wife folks will take a filken coat inflead of it ? It is wifdom, and holinefs and righteoufnefs that are the ornaments of man and that's his beauty which beautified] his foul. And So you think that among wife men , fine clothes will go inflead of wit.- dom, or vertue or holine ? You may put as fine clothes upon a fool as upon a wife man : and will that think you make him pals for wife ? When a gallant came into the Shop of Apelles that famous painter, to have his pi ure drawn, as long as he flood filenr, the Apprentices carried them - felves reverently to him,becaufe he (hone in gold and filver lace: - but whenhe began to talk, theyperceived that he was a fool, and they left their reverence, and all fell a laughing at him. When Peopk fee you in an extraordinary garb, you draw their obfervati-
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