Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Beautiefeueredfrom vertue, is to be contemned. r 3 t that are flew, neither confider by the workesthetvorkke_mailer, &c. though they had fetch pleafure in theirbeautie,&c.yetjhould they haue knawne,hew much more excelle be is that made them ; for the firFt author of bemires bath created thefethings. And if we will needs be in loue with any thing in our 4.Sec`1.1 8. felues, let vs place our chicle affe6lion next vnto God vpon That the beauty our ferule, as being in it felfe much more excellent in beautie ofthe ¡pule is then our bodies,& the canto alfo ofall bodilybeautie;for ac_ much more et- eellrnt t ;Len the cording as the foule is afleted, fo is the beauty of the body beautie ojthe entreated or abated:if the mind bemerrie,the face is beauti- bathe. fied with a cheerefull countenance; if couched with griefeChryfoft.ire and forrow, prefently all outwardbeauty vanifheth : if the Manh.ro. mind be terrified and affrighted, prefently this afconifhment homil.3 S appeareth in the gaftly palenes of the vifage; ifit be inpeace and quietneffe, thenthe face alfo is pleafant and amiable; if the mind bee affeöled with enuie, it maketh the body and face leane and wan ; if with loue which is honefl and mode- rate, itmaketh the face alto to Tooke with a lonely fweetnes; ifthe mind be inraged, the looke allo is furious, if well plea - fed, contentment appeareth in the verycountenance; if the foule be adorned with modeflie, it will 'hewit felfe in the bafhfulne{fe of the Tooke, but ifit be impudent, the face allo is bold and'hamele'fe: fo that the chicle beauty of the bo- dy is derived from the foule, and hereof it is that many haue no gracefulne'fe in their countenance,who haue no blemifh in their face,nor imperfeóion in their fauour; and contrari- wife,that many who hatte little excellencie either in their fa- uour or complexion, doe neuerthele'fe exceed in a lonely gracefulneffe,which they haue not from the bodie, but from force fecret operation of the foule : but moll clearely this ap- peareth in the vnion and feparation of the foule and bodie; for whilefí: they are ioyned together their beauty alto flou- rifheth and continueth ; but no fooner are they diuided, and the bodie parted from the foule, thenthe beauty alto is par- ted from the body,lo than that face which not an houre ago was admired and loued for beauty and excellencie, is now abhorred and loathed forvglinesand deformitie. And there- fore feeing the body hath nothing but what it borroweth, K t and