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CIi1tISTIAbE
MORALITY,
V1Z.
ESLRM.
XXttr.,
apostle
Paul
bids
Timothy
the
young evangelist teach
the
same
doctrine
and practice.
In
like
manner,
I
will also,
that
women
adorn
themselves
in
modest
apparel
with
slaamef
acedness
and
sobriety
:
as
becoming women
prof
es-
sing
godliness
Not
that
all
christians must utterly
aban-
clon
those
richer and
more
costly
methods of ornament,
gold
or
pearls, which the
apostle there
makes
mention
of;
for
every one
of
us
should
wear
such raiment
as
suits
our
character and our
age,
our
company and
business
in
the
world
:
But
let
not
these be
our chief
ornaments,
still:
remembering
that
we
are
Christians
;
and
let our apparel,
as
well
as
our conversation,
spew
that
we
despise trifles,
and
thus
maintain the
dignity
of
our
high
and
holy
call-
mg.
Here,
saith
a
learned commentator,
"it
is
worthy
to
be
noted
by
the women
that
this
.precept
ought
not
to
be
slighted
by
them,
as
of
little moment, seeing
it
isso
care-,
fully
inculcated
by
the
two
chief apostles
of
the
Jew,
and
gentile,
St.
Peter
and
St.
Paul;
and
the
contrary
is
represented
as
a practice opposite
to
godliness."
Tor
while you
are
dressing,
should
you
forget
that,
you
are
sinners,
and.
therefore should put
on
shame-
facedness;
for
all
our ornaments and clothing are
.but
a
memorial
of our
first
sin and
shame.
And
when
we
take
a
pride
in
our
garments,
it
Iooks as
if
we
had forgotten
the
original
of
them, the
loss
of our
innocency.
Nor
is
this
sort.
of
advice
to be
confined
to
the
female
world
:
For,
as,
the
same
author
expresses
it,
"
If
it
be
o
unbecoming
a
christian
woman to be thus
concerned in,
adorning and
tricking
up
her
body,
it must
be
much more
unbecoming
a
christian
man,
and
that
which
makes,him
truly
to deserve the name
of
a fop."
It
is
a token
of
a
light
and
vain mind to be too fond
of
gaudy
habits, a
"mind
not
much affected
with sin
or with
salvation. Surely
christians are born for greater
things,
and their
aim should
point
at
higher
excellencies
than
these are.
Let their
chief ornaments
be
the graces
of the
Spirit, and the virtues
of
the heart
and
Life.
A
well
adorned
body,
and
a
neglected mind,
very ill. becomes
a
professor
of
the
,gospel
Christians
should look like
strangers and
pilgrims here,
Dr. Whitby.