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3 So Of the vanitie ofcaflly and brace apparell. their apparell fhoutd not beounrard, .ee with troydredhaire, andgold put about, &c.Now in this refpe&people offend two wates:firlf, whenas they affe& fafhions,which are not graue and model}, but light,vaine and wanton;whereby they out - wardly difcouer the lafciuious lightneffe and vaine itnmo- defiieoftheir hearts, and by hanging out thisfigne. ofin- continencie, do let their honeflyto the fale.And of this kind are thofehabits and attires efpecially, which do not couer the naked parts, which Godand nature would haue hid; as alto when men effeminately affe& fafhions like vnto wo- men, and women manmfhly go in fuch apparell, asdoth hardly diflinguifh them from men. Secondly, they offend through phantáflicall pride,which moueth them as often to change their fafhions, as the Cameleon his colour, a finne vnto which our people in this land are exceedinglyaddi &ed, and therein notablie thew their vanitie and follie. For if conflancie be an infeparable fruit of wifedome ; fo thatthey who are moll wife, are moo vnchangeable in theircoutfes and a6tions, becaufe atfirui they are able to difccrne what is bell, and knowing it adhere vnto it; whereof it is that God who is infinite in wifedome,is alfo immutablein al his coim- fels; then muflalfo by the fame reafonmutabilitie,and.phan- taf+icait change,be a notable effe& and ligne of follie,which being not able to iudge of that which is good,often fhifteth and changeth,that at fall it might find it out. Againc, vpon this often change there followeth another mifchiefe ; for when they haue tired their wits,aud runne through all fafhi- ons which themfelues can thinke vpon, they crane aid of forraine inuentions, and follow the fafhions of other coun. tries; fometimes the French,and fometimes the Italian, one while theDutch, &foone after the Spanifh.Now it is vnlaw- full not only to break the lawes and llatutcs of our countrie; but alto the manersand cuflomes,wherein they are not dif- fonant from Gods word; becaufe it is a breach of humane focietie,when fo much as in our habit we differ from the refl. And as we are not to be ruled by the !awes of grangers : fo geastCm con- neither muff we follow their cuflomes,vnles they beemuch tra mores bomi- better andmore conuenient then our owne : in which cafe cumfa r flagi_ when