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A14007	A discourse against painting and tincturing of women Wherein the abominable sinnes of murther and poysoning, pride and ambition, adultery and witchcraft are set foorth & discouered. Whereunto is added The picture of a picture, or, the character of a painted woman.; Treatise against painting and tincturing of men and women	Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.; Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657. Picture of a picture. aut	1616 (1616)	STC 24316A; ESTC S118556	52,636	80

are fallen into those perillous times prophecied of by Saint Paul in which men shal be proud vnthankfull vnholy traytors ambitious incontinent bloodie despisers of those that are good louers of pleasures more then of God hauing the forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof And with our eyes we see that true which Esay speaketh Let fauour saith he bee shewed to the wicked yet will hee not learne righteousnesse in the land of vprightuesse will be deale vniustly and will not behold the maiestie of the Lord. See wee not what the Lord hath done for this Nation how hee hath planted his Church among vs and giuen vs peace on all sides round about vs See we not how hee hath giuen vs his Gospell and all his ordinances of saluation and leaue to vse them freely openly falsely in all tranquilitie See we not how hee hath blest vs with two such noble and vertuous Princes one most happily succeeding another such as in truth the whole world since the beginning of their reignes which is now neere 60. yeeres is not able to match in either sex in all their Royall and Christian indowments and how hee hath protected them to this very day someties in a manner miraculously against the many barbarous and diuellish treacheries and trayterous machiuelions and attempts of their wicked aduersaries See wee not with what ease and clemency their Gouernments haue continued and what flouds of temporall fauours haue streamed from the heauens by them vnto vs so as that we may say with Dauid The Lord is with vs he hath prepared a table before vs in the presence of our enemies hee hath annointed our heads with oyle and our cuprunneth ouer Psalm 23. 4. 5. And yet for all this the wicked will not amend but most horrible and transcendent villanies most grieuous and foule enormities breake out among vs to the dishonour of God the disgrace of Religion the shame of their Countrie the griefe of their King and of all good Christian hearts in so much that if there were not amongst vs those that mourned for these euils which vngodly men reioyce to commit and but that thankes bee to God for it there is an exact and iust proceeding against ali such enormious persons wee might well haue feared some notable and fearefull iudgement had been neere vnto vs. Now all sinnes deserue ill with God but some there are that for their heinousnesse are said to crie in the eares of the Lord such as is the sinne of murder as appeares by the speech of God to Caine after he had murdered his brother Abel What hast thou done saith God The voyce of thy brothers blood crieth vnto mee from the ground Genesis 4. 10. This sinne was so fearefull to Dauid as that with a carefull and pensiue heart he prayed against it vnto God Deliuer mee from bloud guiltinesse O God thou God of my saluation Psalm 51. 14. And speaking of bloody people he saith The Lord will abborre the bloody and deceitfull man Psalm 5. 6. And againe The bloodie and deceitfull man shall not liue out halfe his dayes Genesis 9. 5. And indeede the blood of the life of a man is so precious in Gods eye as that hee telles Noah and his sonnes that he will require the bloud of man at the hand both of man and beast And to stay vs from this so vnnaturall a sinne besides his commandement that forbids it he shewes that euen the praiers of murderers shall find no fauour with him so long as their sinne cleaues vnto them When ye spread forth your hands saith he I will hide mine eyes from you yea when yee make many prayers I will not heare your hands are full of blood And if we marke the dealings of God with murders it wil appeare that very seldom or neuer they scape vnpunished but by one meanes or other he finds them out and meets with them though it be by suffering them to murder themselues The first murderer in the world Caine was not indeed kild by God but hee was suffered to liue such a life in such torments of conscience and frightings as if he had had an hell within him wandring vp and downe like a vagabond vpon the earth that whosoeuer saw him and was acquainted with the curse of God that went along with him could not but bee terrified from committing murder Abimelech out of ambition murdered 70. of his brethren but after had his braine-pan crackt by a woman and was kild out-right by one of his owne men at his owne command Cambyses the son of Cyrus shot a noble mans sonne to the heart with an arrow wittingly and made his owne brother to bee murdered priuily and slue his sister for reprouing him for that deede but at last as hee was riding hee fell downe vpon the point of his sword which had fallen out of the scabbard and so was slaine Cassius and Brutus that had helpt to murder Iulius Caesar in the Senate was afterwards murdered by themselues Phocas that had like a barbarous traytor murdered Mauricius the Emperour his Master was at last taken and put to a most cruell death Hemichild murdered his Lord Albenius a King of Lombardie as hee was in bed Rosimund his Queene hauing her hand in the said murder but the Lord was euen with them both For shee thinking to haue poisoned him after made him drinke halfe her poyson which he feeling in his vaines presently staied his draught and made her drinke vp the remainder and so they died both together Ethelbert King of the East-Angles vniustly and deceitfully murdered at the perswasion of Offa the King of Mercia his Queene which Queene liued not a quarter of a yeere after and in her death was so tormented that she bither tong which she had abused to the causing of that murther in peeces with her teeth Selimus a Turkish Emperour murthered his father Baiazet by poyson but not many yeeres after God tooke him into his hands and smote him with a most lothsome and stinking disease which spread ouer all his body and at length kild him Calippus that slue Dian his familiar friend and committed many other murders afterwards liued an exile and great necessities and at length was kild himselfe And for Dauid himselfe whose hand had been defiled with blood the Lord notwithstanding his great repentance did seuerely chasten him The Lord had threatned him saying The sword shall neuer depart from thine house Behold I wil raise vp euil against thee out of thine own house and so indeed it came to passe For one of his sons killd another and by his owne child hee had liked to haue lost his kingdome And as the Almightie God is iust in punishing of murders so likewise his prouidence watcheth to discouer them that murderers sildome or neuer lie hid but first or last they are discouered It is strange to consider how murders haue been detected sometimes by dogges as that of Lothbroke the Dane of

well said by Caluin somewhere Too much finenesse and superfluous brightnesse and finally all excesse ariseth out of the corruption of the heart Moreouer ambition pride luxurie affectation and such like are not saith he res mediae things indifferent But what need I throw water into the sea or set vp a candle in the Sunne But by the doctrine and iudgement of Saint Paul as is obserued by Peter Martyr men must beware not onely of euill but abstaine from all appearance of euill In fucis autem adeò perspicua est malispecies vt negari non possit But in these painting practises the shew of euil is so perspicuous as it cannot be denied Truly saith he in Gods Booke this painting stibium is neuer taken in good part And the greater the persons be that vse these arts the worse it is For Omne animi vitium tantò conspectius in se crimen habet quanto maior qui peccat habetur The greater the man is that sinnes the greater is his sinne It is more scandalous and hurtfull And the more that any man hath receiued of God the more he owes vnto God The higher a man is the more humble hee should bee The greater hee is the better hee should bee When high trees and steeples fall there is much looking And be men neuer so higher yet there is one high before whom and vnder whom they must humble themselues and bewaile their pride and vanities or else they must not looke to bee exalted of him And if these borrowed faces and painted locks bee ridiculous and odious in a woman that is poore and base as in a Kitchin-wench or such like how much more discommendable is it in such as God hath aduanced What poore thanks doe they pay him for those benefits of wealth and greatnesse which without their merit he hath conferred and cast vpon them Euen a little staine is noted in fine Lawne a little blot or blurre is discerned in white paper Honourable and rich persons stand as vpon hilles all mens eies are on them they should be patterns of pietie ensamples of vertue For by their examples they doe either much good or much hurt If it would please them to consider what the Apostle saith vnto the Corinthes I am perswaded they would not meddle with these vanities Reade and weigh what is said in 1. Cor. 7. 29. 30. 31. Surely they that abuse the world that abuse their greatnesse that abuse their wealth and wit they lose a blessing of the world of their greatnesse wealth and wit These things are theirs whilest well vsed but being abused they are not theirs but their enemies rather they make not for them but against them Oh how happy had it bin for them if they had not known what wit what wealth what the world what greatnes meant A man must be poore in riches little in greatnesse humble in honour vertuous in beautie meeke in authority modest and not selfe-conceited in all his ornaments else all is nothing and he is nothing or a certaine Some-thing worse then nothing Thinke wee not that all Christian women how great soeuer are bound to those two speeches of their Apostle Saint Paul Whatsoeuer yee doe doe all to the glorie of God And againe Giue none offence neither to the Iewes nor to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God But doe they paint their faces or die their haire to the glory of God Is God honoured by these exercises or disgraced rather as wee haue seene before Saint Cyprian saith Foeminae manus Deo inferunt c. Women lay hands on God when they seeke by such counterfet deuises to reforme and transfigure that which he hath formed Nescientes quòdopus Dei est omne quod nascitur Diaboli quodcunque mutatur None knowing that that is Gods worke which is borne and the diuels whatsoeuer is changed And doe they thinke that this their painting is offensiue vnto none Some they displease and grieue others they poison by this ill ensample which is as a match to giue fire to them that are as capable of it as tinder flax or gun-powder and besides they giue the enemie occasion to disgrace the Church and that Gospell of Iesus which wee professe and boast of Let vs all therefore remember that golden rule which the Apostle there doth giue vs Which as Hemingius speaketh Whosoeuer doth willingly and wittingly violate he without doubt dishonoreth God and is made guiltie of eternall anger vntill he shall repent But if the respect of men cannot preuaile whose eyes are offended with such vanities yet let the reuerence of Gods holy Angels that tend vpon you disswade you from them For they cannot but be offended as oft as they shal see men peruert nature it selfe and the order that God hath appointed and contumaciously to tread it vnder foot And is not this the Ordinance of God that euery man should appeare in his owne likenes euery woman be seene in her owne face Is not this an inuersion of nature to dissemble and hide the naturall visage with an artificiall and to offer one for another Now shall we offend our good Angels our keepers our protectors who can as ill endure a painted face and counterfeit haire as any man can endure a sluttish face or nittie locks And why should a man be so fond on beautie Amplasatis forma pudicitia Modestie is sufficient beautie Truly vertue is the best beautie which is indeed so beautiful and bright that were it to be seere with eies it would draw and hold all mens eyes vnto it A vertuous woman needs no borrowed no bought complexion none of these poysons for so Uictor cals them when he saith Quid agunt incorpope casto cerussa minium centumque venena colorum What doe this white and red paint and an hundred other poisons of colours in an honest body the time labor and cost which thou wastest on these superfluities bestow and spend in getting keeping and exercising vertue which is euen beauties beautie which as Saint Ambrose speaketh no age shall extinguish no death can take away no sicknesse can corrupt But this borrowed beauty is a vanishing beauty or beautifull vanity a little wet a little swet a little breath will marre it Perhaps thou wilt say it is an ornament An ornament A torment it is saith the said Father The true ornaments of Christians saith Saint Austin are not only no counterfeit lying painting no nor so much as the pompe of gold or garments but good manners An ornament saith Crates is that which doth adorne and that adorneth which makes a woman more honest Tale vero praestant non coceus but painting either of face or haire performes not this but those things which shew grauitie moderation and shamefastnesse Democritus likewise said that sparingnesse of speech adorned a woman and that the parcitie euen of an ornament is an ornament to her I may not omit

reported that the inuenter of Magicke Zeorastres a King of Bactria was burned to death by the diuel And I pray you what got Saul by his witch-seeking Was not his destructiō told him which accordingly came to passe And Buchanan telles vs how Naxlicus a Scotish King was slaine euen by the man whom hee had sent vnto a witch to inquire of the successe of his affaires and of the length of his life the witch hauing afore told the fellow that hee was the man that should slay him By all which we plainely see that God is offended with these diuellish arts and all that vse them How is it then to be lamented that in this cleare light of the Gospell there should be found amongst vs to the dishonour of God and of his Religion and the infamie of our Nation men that haue yeelded themselues disciples Students and practicioners in these hollish arts which Saint Iohn calleth the deepe things of Satan Reuel 1. 24. and haue fearefully prostituted themselues to become base instruments and vassals to act and accomplish the hests and commands of wicked ones vpon whom though the iustice of the State hath taken hold as one W●ston and Franklin and hath made them publique spectacles of wrath to the terror of others yet considering the open signes of their true penitencie we are to hope charitably of them and to say of them as S. Paul doth in another case 1. Cor. 5. 5. that they were deliuered ouer vnto death to the destruction of the flesh that their spirit might bee saued in the day of the Lord Iesus And I desire all men by the mercies of God to abhorre and forsake all such vngodlinesse and to deucte themselues vnto God alone their Maker and Redeemer studying to serue him in righteousnesse and holines all the daies of their life For obedience is better then sacrifice and to hearken then a the fat of Rammes And the truth is that all the plagues and iudgements that euer came vpon the children of Israel light vpon them for their rebellion against God and their disobedience to his word And questionlesse it is come to passe by the iust iudgement of God that these offenders we haue spoken of and haue lately seene cut of were giuen ouer of God and left vnto themselues because they listened not vnto him but were disobedient vnto his word O this disobedience it is as the sinne of Witchcraft and Idolatrie it is in truth the mother and nurse of all iniquitie God hath two sorts of iudgements iudgements for men to keepe and iudgements for men to beare and God hath two sorts of Ministers Ministers of his Word and Ministers of his Sword now it is iust with God that they which will not keepe his iudgements should vndergo his iudgements and that they that wil not be reformed by his word should be punished and cut off with the sword and that such as regard not the power and doctrine of Ministers should feele to their smart the authoritie and force of Magistrates THe great God of heauen and earth euen the Father of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ be mercifull vnto vs and forgiue vs our sinnes all our abominable and crying offences keepe backe and remoue his iudgements from vs continue his blessings amongst vs preserue and prosper our noble King and all his kingdomes detect and bring vnder all his enemies and grant vs truth and peace and loue through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Trin-vni Deo Gloria THE PICTVR OF A PICTVR OR THE CHARACTER of a Painted woman SHe is a creature that had need to be twice defined for she is not that she seemes And though shee bee the creature of God as she is a woman yet is she her owne creatrisse as a picture Indeed a plaine woman is but halfe a painted woman who is both a substantiue and an adiectiue and yet not of the neuter gender but a feminine as well consorting with a masculiue as Iuie with an Ash She loues grace so well that she will rather die then lacke it There is no truth with her to fauour no blessing to beautie no conscience to contentment A good face is her god and her cheeke well died is the idoll she doth so much adore Too much loue of beautie hath wrought her to loue painting and her loue of painting hath transformed her into a picture Now her thoughts affections talke studie worke labour and her very dreames are on it Yet all this makes her but a cynamon tree whose barke is better then her bodie or a peece of guilded copper offered for current gold She loues a true looking-glasse but to commend age wants and wrinkles because otherwise she cannot see to lay her falshood right Her body is I weene of Gods making and yet it is a question for many parts thereof she made her selfe View her well and you'ill say her beautie 's such as if shee had bought it with her pennie And to please her in euery of her toies would make her maide runne besides her wits if she had any Shee 's euer amending as a begger 's a peecing yet is she for all that no good penitent For she loues not weeping Teares and mourning would marre her making and she spends more time in powdring pranking and painting then in praying Shee 's more in her oyntments a great deale then in her orizons Her religion is not to liue wel but die well Her pietie is not to pray well but to paint well She loues confections better a great deale then confessions and delights in facing and feasting more then fasting Religion is not in so great request with her as riches nor wealth so much as worship She neuer chides so heartilie as when her box is to seeke her powder 's spilt or her clothes ill set on A good Bed-friend shee 's commonly delighting in sheetes more then in shooes making long nights and short daies All her infections are but to gaine affections for she had rather die then liue not please Her lips she laies with so fresh a red as if she sang Iohn come kisse me now Yet it 's not out of loue excepting self-loue that she so seekes to please but for loue nor from honesty but for honor t is not piety but praise that spurres her She studies to please others but because she wold not be displeas'd her self And so she may fulfil her own fancy she cares not who els she doth befoole A name she preferres to nature and makes more account of fame then faith And though shee do affect singularity yet she loues plurality of faces She is nothing like her self saue in this that she is not like her self She sildō goes without a paire of faces and she s furnisht with stuffe to make more if need be She saies a good archer must haue 2. strings to his bow but she hath hers bent both at once yet you must not say she weares 2. faces vnder one hood for that she