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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05371	The treasure of vowed chastity in secular persons. Also the widdowes glasse. VVritten by the RR. Fathers Leonard Lessius, and Fuluius Androtius, both of the Society of Iesus. Translated into English by I.W. P.	Lessius, Leonardus, 1554-1623.; Androzzi, Fulvio, 1523-1575. aut; Wilson, John, ca. 1575-ca. 1645?	1621 (1621)	STC 15524; ESTC S108506	57,293	362

become rich as the Apostle witnesseth fall into temptation and the snare of the deuill and into many vnprofitable and hurtfull desires which send them head long into damnatiō destruction for couetous desire is the roote of all mischeife Marriage doth comonly force men headlong vnto this desire for al mē would make their children rich leaue them a large inheritance so that deseruedly also for that cause that state of life is not to be greatly desired which maketh all our paines and cares most commonly not only vnprofitable for our welfare but also dangerous and hurtfull vnto vs if it be not auoyded Yet it followes not from hence that wedlocke is euill for neither Riches or Honnors be euil but good which God also sometymes bestoweth vpō vs for the reward of some good deed or other and in tymes past haue beene promised also to those few who obserued the law but it is dangerous I say to loue such pleasures and delights to follow them and to imploy al our endeauors onely in attayning of them since they are but base meane and do hinder the loue and desire of things eternall intāgle the minde in many snares In like manner though Matrimony of it selfe be good and ordeyned by God yet it drawes with it many cares and troubles which through humanie frailty hinder the health of the soule that it leades men secretly into many sins and oftentimes vnto eternall damnation Thus much of the humaine affectiō out of which many men inclyne vnto Marryage The spirituall affection is when Parents desire to haue children to the end that they may instruct them in the feare of God that they may teach them to serue him that they may increase the number of the faithful that by them many deeds of deuotion may be done that God may be honored by them and the like these affections rise not out of nature but out of diu●ne inspiration and are worthy of a man as he is a Christian. Whence I confesse that Parents who with this kind of affection desire to haue yssue and bring them vp as aforsaid do merit greatly before Almighty God the wife also who with such a spirit desireth Marriage shal be saued by the bearing of children And in this manner the wordes of the Apostle are to be vnderstood 1. Tim. 2. But yet it seemes to be more probable that the Apostle in that place speaketh not of the merit but of the estate and office of Marriage that to be also the meaning of this saying Saluabitur c. She shal be saued by doing the office of Marryage and endeauouring to haue children for so the Greeke text doth import as the learned do teach So likewise to the Romans cap. 4. 5. 11. Abrahā is sayd to be the Father of those that belieue by hauing the foreskin or Prepuce cut off that is to say by those which are in that Estate And in 2. Cor. cap. 6. Per gloriam ignobilitatem c. By glory and ignobility by infamy and good credit that is to say in prosperity and aduersity The same is confirmed by the words which the Apostle addeth Saluabitur c. She shal be saued saith he by the bearing of childrē if she perseuere in faith in loue in holynes with sobriety therefore he attributeth the cause of saluatito fayth to loue c. not to the procreation of children yet I confesse also that this very deed is meritorious likewise if it be done as we haue sayd out of spirituall affection but it is otherwise if it be done out of humaine only Moreouer if this estate and the offices thereof be chosen performed with a spirituall affection neuertheles single life is much better and more meritorious both because it remoues innumerable occasions of distractions imperfections and sinnes by which the estate of Matrimony is hindred in the offices of deuotion and also because it affoardeth cōmodity of conuersing dayly with God and of being attent to diuin matters Wherefore a Virgin oftentymes may merit more in one day then a marryed woman in many monethes CHAP. VII Of certaine thinges to be obserued in this Estate TO the end that Virgins may the better preserue this treasure obtayne their scope and purpose more at larg by which they haue so straitly bound themselues vnto God and vndertaken this estate holy Fathers haue prescribed certaine things to be obserued First in their apparell secondly in their exercises thidly in the vse of their riches and wealth lastly in their conuersation As for their apparell it must not be costly but dec●nt and graue without any kind of vanity or curiosity without pride also or any secular ornaments such as may represent the state wherein they liue and the forsaking of the world by which euery man that sees them may know that they are Virgins and haue an intent neuer to marry For by this meanes they shall auoyd all importunityes and troubles which suiters are accustomed to vse and besides this they shall preuent many other inticements to the breach of their intent S. Cyprian in his booke de disciplina habitu Virginum handleth this place more at large and with great elegancy Continency quoth he Chastity consist not only in the integrity of the body but also in the honor of the Attire and apparell being ioyned with modesty She must not only be a Virgin really but also she must be knowne and be belieued to be such a one so that no man who seeth her who is a Virgin may haue any doubt whether she be so or no. For why should she go adorned or attyred as though she had or would haue a husband let her rather feare to please any if she be a Virgin neither let her seeke her owne danger since she preserues her selfe for a better more deuout purpose c. Neither ought a Virgin to be delighted with the shew of her owne beauty or to take a glory in her owne person or comlynes since she hath no resistance or war against any thing so much as against the flesh nor any more obstinate enemy to ouercom thē her own body Afterwards he alleadgeth some who excuse thēselues for their Riches and Nobility for which respects they thinke that it is conuenient for them to go more richly attyred whose excuse he refuteth at large shewing in what thinges they should imploy their wealth To their habit also belongeth a Veyle with the which it is meete that a Virgin should be couered when she goeth abroad least either she might see that which were not befitting or her countenance should be perceaued of others For how many I pray you haue there beene in the world who only by sight haue either perished themselues or killed others In so much that they must take principal heed of their eyes And Tertullian hath written a particuler Treatise vpō this subiect of virgins veyling and couering their heads which he iudged to