Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Ofthe eednitie ofcoftly and brace appareil. 38 when we haue receiued them, we muff confiantly hold vs to :la pro mottos them,that fo they may in time grow cuflomable among our diuerfitate vi- (clues. Neither muti euery one according to his own; phan- tondo /uxt, &c. taflicall humour varie from his commiefafhion, feeing that »ispt u part is vglie and monfirous which agreeth not with the vnilars e (o eft non o whole body; neither muff he through vaine inconfiancie af- congruens..A,- feEl Ilrange fathions,for this alfo will induce him in time to goft Conteff. imitate their vices and corruptions. In which refpe& God 16'3.cap.8 threatneth to punifh euen princes and kings children ( who a ratan would thinke fhould in this kind be allowed grearefi libertie) becaufe they were clothed with ffrange appareil, and aeph.t.8. would not followtheircountrie fathion. In the defeElalfo men offend through flouenlie vnhandfomneffe, not caring hew their appareil hangs vpon them, nor how beatilie and naflie their clothes are,fo they keepethen from the cold; into which diforder they fall either through flothfull negli- gence, becaufe they would not bee at the laboúr of dreflìng themfelues, or through affeéled pride,.feeking for praife at the backedore, and defiring ro beetalked of, and to feet= notable for fomewhat. But this allo is vnlawfull; for the fame Scripture which forhiddeth exceffe in broidered haire, pearle and gold,doth alto require that we fhould clothe our fei ties inhandfome ,decent and comelieapparell, asbecom- methfhamefatineffe and modetlie. t.Titn Laffly,menoffendin their appareil in refpe& of the ends 4.Se11.6. thereof, the which are two,honeilie and profit. In regard of ofebe abufe of the former,apparell is worn; by man to couer his nakednes, apparei,ne re- and to hide his fhatne which after his fall infuedby reams hereof eb ï is fon offinne. The other end is profit, which, is two fold, fir ti are,honefïieaxd for neceffarie vie; fecondlie for honour and comelineffe.Ap- profit. parell is neceflirie vnto vs; for howfoeuer before the fall there was filch a iufi temperature of the aire, that it was not at all offenfiue to mans naked bodie,and confequentliein this behalfe there was no neede of garments ; yet through finne this temper being loft, and an inequality following of heate and cold, both intollerable veto man, and hurtfull to his health, appareil became ncccfharie to preferue him from the outward iniuries of the weather, and to keepe him itait equ;