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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71042	A wonder of wonders, or, A metamorphosis of fair faces voluntarily transformed into foul visages or, an invective against black-spotted faces / by a well-willer to modest matrons and virgins Miso-Spilus, i. qui maculas odit ; published by R. Smith, gent.	Miso-Spilus.; Smith, R., gent.	1662 (1662)	Wing S4149; ESTC R26395	28,442	40

present death to any that it seizeth on as may appear by the Viper which fastned on St. Paul as he was warming him by the fire in the Isle of Malta from whose danger God miraculously delivered him insomuch as the barbarous people then seeing his marvellous delivery took St. Paul to be a God Ambros To. 4. Hexam l. 5. c. 7. Acts 28.6 St. Ambrose moreover thus writeth of the poysonous spotted Viper Viperae os siquis calcaverit recens duntaxat mortuae gravius quàm venenum nocere perhibetur immedicabile vulnus serpere If any one saith he spurn the mouth of a Viper though newly dead it is reported to be more dangerous then the poyson and that an incurable wound follows thereupon Christ calls the wicked Jews of his time a Generation of Vipers Matth. 3.7 and 12.34 It seems he could not liken them to a worse creature Toads also Snakes and other Serpents and divers savage Beasts as Leopards Tygers Wild-Cats and the like are partly of a poysonous and partly of a fierce and cruel nature and disposition and all of them speckled like our black-fac'd Ladies yet they would not be likened to them Josephus Laurentius in his Philosophica thus writeth of this black colour Juseph Laurentius Philosophica Rei se deturpabant ad misericordiam captandam condemned persons were wont to foul themselves speaking of the black colour that they might be pityed so it seems this was esteemed a doleful colour of no delight Again unlucky dayes saith Laurentius are called Atri Dies black dayes and were Carbone notati marked with a biack coal not doubtlesse for any comelinesse or beauty in that colour and fortunate dayes were called Dies candidi white dayes and marked with Creta white Chalk If then these Black-birds desire to be fortunate they should by this Rule make themselves Candidae and not Nigrae or Atrae white ones not black Besides these testimonies of Learned Writers before produced touching Spots and black colours that nothing may be wanting conducible hereunto hear what the sacred Scriptures write both concerning Spots as also touching black colours and blacknesse And first how Spots have generally been taken throughout the Scriptures for faults and deformities both in the Body and Mind internally and externally and never mentioned as Ornaments to set forth or illustrate the inward or outward parts of Man or Woman to which purpose our black patched Ladies pretend to use them And then observe also what formidable Expressions the holy Word of God hath left us concerning Blackness or Darkness able to deter any from using that which represents the same in which colour notwithstanding our spotted Ladies do now delight And first to begin with such Texts of the Scripture as write of Spots and then in order to proceed with the other That Spots are blemishes appears Numb 19.2 in these words (a) Num. 19.2 A red heyfer without spot wherein is no blemish shall be burnt c. And Numb 28.3 (b) Numb 28.3 Ye shall offer unto the Lord two lambs of the first year without spot Again Numb 28.11 (c) Numb 28.11 Ye shall offer seven lambs without spot And Numb 29.17 (d) Numb 29.17 Ye shall offer fourteen lambs without spot Ye see that in all these places of holy Scripture spotted Lambs are forbidden to be offered unto the Lord for no Beasts were to be offer'd but such as were Immaculate without spot so it seems Spots were not then in such request as they are now with our spotted Faces Also Job 11.15 Zophar said unto Job Job 11.15 Thou shalt lift up thy face without spot Which our now speckled faces cannot do Also Cantic 4.7 Thou art all fair my Love Cantic 4.7 there is no spot in thee speaking of the Church which should be without spot So Ephes 5.27 the Church is there termed A glorious Church Ephes 5.17 not having spot or wrinkle nor any such thing but holy and without blemish So hereby is inferred That a Spot is a blemish Also 1 Tim. 6.14 Keep the Commandment without spot that is 1 Tim. 6.14 without stain or blemish So let me advise our Wantons to keep their faces and fames Again Heb. 9.14 Christ offered himself without spot to God Hebr. 9.14 The original Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies inculpatum immaculatism maculae expers without fault immaculate having no spot Also 1 Pet. 1.19 Christ 1 Pet. 1.19 a Lamb without blemish and without spot From hence a Spot may be taken for a Blemish And 2 Pet. 2.13 The Apostle terms wicked persons Spots and Blemishes 2 Pet. 2.13 Again 2 Pet. 3.14 2 Pet. 3.14 The Apostle admonisheth his beloved ones That they be found by Christ in peace without spot or blemish So that to be spotted is blame-worthy Jude also in his Epistle Jude ver 12. v. 12. saith Wicked seducers are spots in the feasts of charity feeding themselves without fear Even so our spotted ones without shame or fear frequent Feasts and Meetings though of another sort but being spotted their society ought not to be admitted Again the same Apostle Iude v. 13. compares these spotted ones to the raging waves of the Sea Jude ver 13. foaming out their own shame and unto wandering starres to whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever suitable to our now spotted faces haunters of Feasts and wanderers or gadders from place to place to get customers Thus much concerning Spots spirituall and corporall out of the holy Scriptures Now you shall hear next what we have collected out of the same Sacred written Word concerning blacknesse or darknesse and the black colour correspondent thereunto as followeth Iob 3. v. 4 Job cap. 3. ver 4 5 6. 5 6. The holy man Iob being terribly afflicted by the permission of God for triall of his integrity useth these execrations Let the day perish wherein I was born c. Let that day saith he be darknesse let not God regard it from above neither let the light shine upon it let darknesse and the shadoow of death stain it let a cloud dwell upon it let the blacknesse of the day terrifie it and for that night let darknesse seize vpon it c. Here you see how holy Iob in his anguish and terrible grief wisneth this darknesse or blacknesse to be sent by God on the earth so that the day of his birth had never been And therefore no such colour of Black can be from hence desired but rather detested Again Job 30.30 this holy man Job in his lamentable affliction cryeth out thus My skin saith he is black upon me and my bines are burnt with heat Our foolish black-patch Girles may here observe how holy Job crieth out of the blacknesse of his skin as one of his punishments and yet they think that their black faces are an ornament to them but let them learn of Job how to esteem it rightly