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The impartial monitor: about following the fashions. Or The sweet fruit of sharp reprehension in a rare example, of one that (by another's pen) cured his wife of her costlinesse. Imprimatur, Edmund Calamie. Books (well chosen) are the best recreation, best company, best cheer, best cheap.
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Younge, Richard.
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stretched out necks and with wandring eies making a minsing as they go and make a tinkling with their feet therefore shall the Lord mak the heads of the daughters of Zion ball'd and the Lord shall discover their secret parts In that day shall the Lord take away the ornaments of the slippers and the cauls and the round tiers the sweet balls and the bracelets and the bonnets the tires of the head and the slops and the head-bands and the tablets and the ear-rings the rings and the mufflers the costly apparel and the vails and the wimples and the crisping-pins and the glasses and the fine linnen and the hoods and the lawns And instead of sweet savours there shall be a stink and instead of a girdle a rent and instead of dressing of the hair baldnesse and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth and burning instead of beauty Isa. 3. 16. to 25. Miriams Leprosie is one instance of this her foul tongue was not onely punished with a foul face but her pride was cured with deformity Or is it plenty that makes you flaunt it You shall want necessaries Or is it making an Idol of your little one it shall be taken from you and so of health There cannot be a worse signe of ensuing evil then pride as we see in Peter If Paul but begin to exalt himself some messenger of Satan shal be sent to pull him down again 2 Cor. 12. 7 â—â—ide goeth before destruction and an high minde before the fall â—â—â— 16. 18. And the reason is All that are proud in heart are an abomination to the Lord and though hand join in hand such shall not go unpunished Prov. 16. 5. He that hath a proud look and high heart I cannot suffer saith the Lord Psal. 101. 5. Job 40. 11. 12. Mal. 4. 1. of which you have had some experience The Lord hath spoken to you once twice thrice and that in an easie and familiar Scripture phrase he hath brought you and your babe into physicks fetters he hath abated of your beauty he hath cut short your means the fuel of your pride yea he hath gone further with you for whereas your honour hath been more cared for then your God and all was well while you were well esteemed Is not your good name at the stake and your credit wofully blasted by excelling all of your rank and calling and all bounds of discretion and by your scorning to be thought a Ministers wife in which Religion also suffers Hath not self-conceitednesse broken your credit For as there is no plaister like this to pull down proud flesh so God hath accordingly decreed that while we think well of our selves others shall never think well of us Thus hath the Lord dealt with you whose preventing mercie it is to speak before he strikes to lighten before he thunders to warn before he wounds to use the rod before he takes up the sword yet you neither hear nor take notice of his displeasure Your eies are not opened your heart is not humbled but your pride remains being somwhat like Nero still who took it for a disparagement forsooth to be seen two daies in one suit Though you wear a pretty part of your husbands estate upon your back and the like about your neck What is wisedom departed from you or would you have Jezabels fare be dasht in pieces Would you be let go on like Absolom whose chief pride lay in his hair and that became his halter Look to it for God will first or last make you know your self if you belong to him and at the next bout cast you down to the very ground and if that will not serve one foot shall slip into hell that it may be a means through his blessing to further and forward you in the way to heaven as it fared with the incestuous Corinthian 1 Cor. 5. 5. 2 Cor. 2. 6 7 8. which if you would prevent take warning in time for God will be sure to have his will of those that are wedded to their own wills yea he delights in it as you may see in Pharaohs example O Cousin my fear is that this your pride will spin you a thred of many troubles before you learn that lesson of the Psalmist Before I was afflicted I went astray but now do I keep thy commandements Psal. 119. 67. And indeed we call for greater strokes by not feeling the lesser If we be warned of any thing but sin one warning will serve but we are so incorporated and inured to sin that a thousand sermons will not serve Custom hath made sin stronger in many then the Word of God Whereupon God takes another course and saies I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their fault and seek me for in their affliction they will seek me diligently Hos. 5. 15. Though indeed never to think on God until we stand in need of him argues a base and not an ingenuous spirit I confesse it 's well if it prove so well for this is more then God ows us and his method to millions is this The seed was sown this year the Lord calls for fruit and none will come the next year and the next after and none comes at last the curse goeth forth Never fruit grow upon thee more as it fared with the Fig-tree Cut it down and cast it into the fire Luk. 13. 6. to 10. Now whether of these two waies the Lord will deal with you onely himself knows But one of the two I am sure he will and the last is most likely For the greatest number enter the broad-gate and they are few in comparison one of a City and two of a Tribe Isa. 10. 22. that shall be saved True there is scarce a man on earth but he thinks to go to heaven though no man thinks that the whole world shall go to heaven for then were hell made to no purpose Yea whereas the Jews thought that if but two men in the world were saved the one should be a Scribe the other a Pharisee Christ saith neither of both should come there Luk. 13. 28. But admit your case be onely doubtful and not desperate you have not two souls that you may hazard one nor will any wise-man venture his soul on such an uncertainty I know you have favorable thoughts of your self and much to say in your own behalf though that much is nothing In excusing our faults we are all too eloquent though to a wise and godly man whose folly is wiser then the wisdom of the world what you have to alleage would appear but pitious shifts weaker then walls of paper As what saies wise Solomon All the waies of a man are clean in his own eies but the Lord pondereth the spirits And men may more then guesse by reflection from the Word because the outward actions declare the inward intentions A good Conversion is proved by a good Conversation If any one be ingrafted into Christ by a lively
and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity saies I dwell in the high and holy place and with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit Isa. 57. 15. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of grace which is heaven on earth and theirs is the kingdom of glory which is heaven in heaven Yea strive to excell others in humility that you may excell others in glory and be not like Chancers wife of Bath who would be content to eat brown bread in heaven for a lutle toleration of her will here on earth Abstain not from evil onely but from the appearance 2 Thes. 5. 22. If you belong to Christs family wear not the worlds livery If you be a Christian strive to imitate Christ Fashion not your self like unto this world Be not like a piece of Iron between two equal Loadstones The prosperity of fools destroieth them Prov. 1. 32. Be not you a foolish but a wise Virgin Mat 25. 1 to 14 Commit your waies unto the Lord and your thoughts shall be directed Prov. 16. 3. So shall you be no longer led by your wicked Counsellor A looking-glasse will make a fool proud but an hour-glasse will make a wise man humble True Women as they say for a little goodnesse look for great praise and for much evil no chastisement But if God by his Spirit shall work this upon your conscience you will have cause to blesse his Name that ever you met with such a monitor neither will you resemble the rustick Sailor who when he is in danger of shipwrack will promise to change his life and to imbrace virtue in the extream but when the storm is over-past he returns to his former vomit and becoms worse then he was before making no conscience nor account of his vows and protestations yea he reâ—…s them as dreams and toies Perseverance is the crown of â—…es and heaven shall be the crown of perseverance And 〈◊〉 I can assure you do but now forsake your sins for Christ 〈◊〉 you shall hereafter if brought unto it be able to enâ—…e martyrdom for him To conclude with a word of advice if you ever intend a â—…nge totally divorce your self from that Jezabel who hath â—…wn you to this and never change word with her more For â—…re is no disputing with Satan nor his Agents as you may 〈◊〉 by his success in Paradice Gen. 2. 2 to 7. Nor will God â—…ep us from the sin if we keep not our selves from the occasion â—…herefore so soon as David determined to keep Gods commanâ—…ents these are his words Depart from me all yee workers 〈◊〉 iniquity Psal. 119. 115. And indeed all depends upon the obâ—…ving or not observing this Your Affectionate Kinsman R. YOUNGE And so much of the pride and vanitie of Women It were good deed and I could finde in mine heart to tell men alâ—… of mealing their heads and shoulders of wearing fardinâ—…ales about their leggs c. For these likewise deserve the â—…od since all that are discreet do but hate and scorn them for it But they are wiser in their own conceit then seven men that can render a reason and more hope of a fool then of such Prov. 26. 12 16. FINIS Other Pieces made by the same AUTHOR and whiâ—… are to be sold by James Crump in Little Bartholomews Well-yard are A Sovereign Antidote against all Grief A Description of Heaven and Hell A hopeful way to cure that horrid sin of Swearing Apples of Gold from the tree of life Armour of proof against the Worlds Envie Scoffs and Reproaches Characters of the kindes of preaching Compleat Armor against Evil Society first and second part Cordial Counsel God's goodness and Englands unthankfulness Sin stigmatized with an addition The Arraignment of Covetousness and Ambition first and second part The benefit of Affliction The victory of Patience The whole duty of a Christian The Natural Man anatomized The cure of Mis-prision or Mistake The Cause and Cure of Ignorance Error Enmity c. The Pastors Advocate The Poor's Advocate first and second Part. The odious despicable and dreadful condition of a Drunkard The Blemish of Government Shame of Religion Disgrace of Mankinde with Offer of Help to Drowning-men The prevention of Povertie and cure of Melancholie FINIS