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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

vpon the proud and ambitious as on Lucifer and his fellows our first parents Abimelecke Absalon Haman Scnacherih Nebuchadnezzar Olofernes Antiochus Herod Alladius Apryes Caligula Domitian Alexander Timotheus the Athenian Aiax Capaneus and but marke his dealings with the proud and hautie of the world that neither know God nor man neither themselues nor others and then shalt thou bee forced to confesse that there is a God that abaseth the proud which as Dauid saith Psalm 119 are cursed and erre from Gods commandements And here I cannot but magnifie the wisedome and honourable proceeding of our State in detecting and pursuing malefactors of these our times who hauing carried their leaud practises with a great deale of hautinesse of secresie and securitie thought the world Fortuna non arte regi to bee guided by chance not by any steddy course of diuine prouidence But their punishment hath cleared this doubt absoluitque deos hath iustified God in his righteous dealing so that all the world is ready to say with Dauid verily there is a reward for the righteous doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth the earth Psalm 58. 10. One of the offenders hauing made a profitable vse of her arraignement and conuiction did confesse to the glorie of God being truly humbled by hearty repentance that shee was hainously guilty of the murther of Sir Thomas Ouerburie and was iustly condemned for the same detesting her former life led in poperie pride and sensualitie and exhorting the assistants with much earnestnes to leaue off their yellow bands and of garish fashions the very inuentions of the diuell I wish that her words might take impression in those that heard them and her example serue others for instruction Of Adulterie I Am now come to speake of whoredome and to shew some of the iudgements of God against it True it is that marriage is honorable in al and the bed vndefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God wil iudge God did seuerely chastise Dauid for his adultery For the child so gotten he tooke away and suffered his daughter Thamar to be rauished by his sonne Ammon and his Concubines to be defiled by Absalom his sonne that was so deare vnto him Rodoaldus a King of Lombardy was slaine as he was in the very act of adulterie Olrichbertus eldest sonne to Lotharius a King of France died as he was embracing his whore Luther somwhere speaks of a Noble man so sensuall and whorish that he slucke not to say that If this life of pleasure and harlot-hunting would last euer he would not eare for heauen or eternall life But the filthy wretch died among his harlots being strucken with a sudden stroke of Gods vengeance Messelina the wife of Claudicus the Emperour was a woman of rare in continency She fell at last in loue with one Silius a faire young Gentleman and that she might marrie him tho the Emperour her husband was aliue she caused his wife Sillana to be diuorced and so married him for the which after the complaint and suite of the Nobles to the Emperour shee was put to death This sin of adulterie was odious euen among the Heathen as appeareth by the slorie of Abimeleck Genes 26. by the practise of the Turkes and Tartars and of Aurelianus who for terrour sake adiudged one of his Souldiers to a cruell death for adulterating his hostisse as also by the law of Iulia by which all adulterers were sentenced to die and by the words of Queene Hecuba in Euripides who would haue it made a law that euery wife should die that gaue her chastitie to another man And how vnpleasing this sin is vnto God any man may see that reades the Lawes he gaue vnto his people the Iewes by the which adulterers were to bee put to death or which considers what the Apostle writes in sundry places in which he sheweth that Whoremongers and adulterers shall not inherit the Kingdome of God 1. Cor. 6. Gal. 5. Of Witchcraft BVt there is yet another sin behind which is very sacrilegious and altogether derogatorie to the glory of God and dishonourable to all Christian men which is Witchcraft or all those curious arts and deuises that are wrought by the Diuell whether it bee superstitious diuination or iugling or Incantation in the doing whereof euery witch is at a league with the diuell open or secret and doth wittingly and willingly vse his helpe This Saint Paul Gal. 5. numbers vp among the deeds of the flesh and threatneth them that vse it with the losse of heauen Almightie God in Deut. 18. 10. forbids all kinds of witches and witcheries as abominations vnto him and for the which he driue out the Nations out of Canaan and in Leuit. 20. he bids that a man or woman that hath a familiar spirit or that is a wizzard bee put to death And he is so bent against this hellish sinne that he saith expressely in Leuit. 20. 6. that the soule that turneth after such as haue familiar spirits and after wizards to goe a whoring after I will euen set my face against that soule and will cut him off from amongst my people But behold some of the iudgements of God vpon Magicians and Witches Platina with others testifie that Pope Ione obtained the papacy by Magique but after she had been papesse some two yeeres and a little more she being thought an he fell in trauell of a child in the open streetes as shee was going to the Church of Lateran in which shee died Bladud the sonne of Lud King of Brittaine was giuen much to these blacke arts and wrought wonders by them at last he made himselfe wings and assaied to flie but the diuell forsooke him in his iourney so that falling downe he broke his necke Plutarch speakes of a notable witch called Cleomedes who being pursued by diuers that had had their children kild by him hid himselfe in a coffer which when they came to search vpon notice giuen them they found not the murdering witch in it for the diuell had carried him quicke away with him A witch cald Cold in Lorraine would suffer pistols to bee shot at him and catch the bullets as they were a comming but at length one of his seruants being angry with him so shot him with a pistoll that he kild him Benedict the 9 a Pope and a Magitian was as some write strangled to death by the diuell in a Forest whither he had retired to follow his coniuring exercises Cornelius Aggrippa a notable Magitian died but basely Simon Magus likewise perished in his slight the diuell forsaking him at the word of S. Peter Simon Pembroke a figure-caster of Saint Georges parish neere London was presented for a Coniurer and being in Saint Sauiours Church where he was warned to appeare he was suddēly strucken by the hand of God and there died and there being searcht there were found about him diuers coniuring bookes with a picture of a man of tinne and much other trash And it is

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