3 So Ofthe vanitieofcaflly andbraceapparell. their apparell fhoutd not beounrard, .ee with troydredhaire, andgold putabout,&c.Now in this refpe&people offendtwo wates:firlf, whenas they affe& fafhions,whichare not graue andmodel}, but light,vaineand wanton;whereby they out - wardly difcouer the lafciuious lightneffe and vaine itnmo- defiieoftheirhearts, and by hanging out thisfigne. ofin- continencie, do lettheir honeflyto the fale.Andofthis kind are thofehabits and attires efpecially, which do not couer thenaked parts, which Godand naturewould hauehid; as alto when meneffeminately affe& fafhions like vnto wo- men, and women manmfhly go in fuch apparell, asdoth hardly diflinguifh them frommen. Secondly, they offend through phantáflicall pride,which moueth them as often to change their fafhions, as the Cameleon his colour, a finne vntowhich our people in this land areexceedinglyaddi &ed, and therein notablie thew their vanitie and follie. For if conflancie be an infeparable fruitofwifedome ; fo thatthey who are moll wife, are moo vnchangeable in theircoutfes and a6tions,becaufe atfirui they are able to difccrne what is bell, andknowing it adhere vntoit; whereof it is that God who is infinite in wifedome,is alfo immutablein al his coim- fels; thenmuflalfo by the fame reafonmutabilitie,and.phan- taf+icaitchange,beanotable effe& and ligne of follie,which being notable to iudge of thatwhich is good,often fhifteth and changeth,that at fall it mightfind it out. Againc, vpon this often change there followeth anothermifchiefe ; for when they haue tired their wits,aud runne throughall fafhi- ons which themfelues can thinke vpon, they crane aidof forraine inuentions, and follow the fafhionsofother coun. tries; fometimesthe French,and fometimes the Italian, one while theDutch, &foone after the Spanifh.Now it is vnlaw- full not only tobreak the lawes and llatutcsofour countrie; but alto the manersand cuflomes,wherein they are notdif- fonant fromGods word; becaufe it is a breach ofhumane focietie,when fomuchasinourhabit wediffer from the refl. And aswe are not to be ruled by the !awes ofgrangers : fo geastCm con- neither muff we follow their cuflomes,vnlesthey beemuch tramores bomi- better andmore conuenient then our owne : inwhich cafe cumfa r flagi_ when
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