I. i6. Queßions, and Cdfesofeonfcience Chap, 13: avoid fin, but the very appearance thereof. And concerning &Lb st. Am- kofe pafieth this fentence : Ilaving adulteratedtheir faces, they willfeon after think,of adulterating their chaftity, and defiling their bodies. 5. They &I-grace their ProfeffionofReligion, whiilell profellìng themfelve s themembers of C rrift, they behave themfelves like the limbs of Satan: The bell beautyof aChriflian woman is modefly and ihamefaffnefe, and the bell ornament is fimplicity and humility : but how farre are they from fimplicity and truth, who lie anddifkmbie, even when they fay nothing, fpeakang falfhood and diflimulation with their very faces, CO as many as look upon them ? unleffe they thinkthat only verbal untruth is forbidden, and a&ual fal lioodpermitted. Or that it is a greater fault todillemble in fpeeches, then todeceive indeeds andaaions. Ob. For oar f lves we takg no great pleafure in it, but we rreefl do it to pleafe our hri.rbánds,that we maygain their love, and keep themfrom lofting afterft range women? ',info. But you ought not by pleafing men to difplcafe God: therefore if it couldbe imagined that any man is fovoid ofunderftanding, as that he would j have his wife, whom hedefires to keep honefl, to ufe the qualitiesand praiìite of an Harlot, yet the ought net to content him by burdening her foul with a known fin. Neither can it be imagined, that women hereby can wind themfelves into their husbands love, or preferve him from iinlawful lulls : For if neither the fea aof Gods judgements, threatning the Lawes of men, and thedanger of falling hereby into innumerable evils, will deter him from following fuch bale courfes : nor the love of God andhis fweet Promifes will allure him to the per formance ofhis duty, how can it be imagined that he will be drawn by a painted vizard toembrace this Conjugal love, or be preferved from ftrange lulls with a counterfeit beauty ? Yea, rather fuch wives make themfelves loathfom to their Husbands, whileft theft. artificial fupplies puts them in tnindeof their natural defer}, and this counterfeit beauty, ofthat real deformity whichit hideth. Ifthen you would have your husbands love you, obferve rather a fober gravity, then affel a counterfeit beauty, and deck your mindes withornamentsof verrue, as with meekneffe, humility, chaftity, &c. whichbeing permanent and unchang able, will make his love confiant andperpetual. Mr. Downhams wi rfare. CHAP.
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