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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85852	A discourse of auxiliary beauty. Or artificiall hansomenesse. In point of conscience between two ladies.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.; Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667,; Walker, Obadiah, 1616-1699,	1656 (1656)	Wing G355; Thomason E1594_1; ESTC R202122	94,239	212

use of adorning by some light tincture the lookes of women eminent for virtue modesty piety and charity when they are not recluse or votaries And yet even these are not denyed as I suppose those things which may innocently please themselves even in their retirements Where every one is yet a Theater and society to themselves and cannot willingly live at any odds with their looks or dislike of themselves Some use these helpes who are rarely seen of anymen others of none but their husbands in reference to whose honest satisfactions they use these customable adornings of the Country as a testimony of their love and respect besides as an attractive or conservative of their affections which never receive greater Checks then when they meet with any object that represents either sordidness negligence or undervaluing Your LaP Ladyship cannot think it unlawfull for wives to please and gratify their husbands no lesse by quickning their complexion then by hiding any other defect and deformity or using such wayes of sweetnesse neatnesse and decency which are potent Decoyes to love as may best keep their husbands from any loathing or indifferency also from any extravagancy To which end I have heard that S. Austins civility allowed those feminine ornaments and elegancies of fine clothes sweets dresses and anointings to wives or such as would be wives as farre as the limits of chast and conjugall love extended All which S. Jeroms rigor who they say more loved than favoured our sex would lesse approve Sure i lewd and and wanton women find the use of such adornings to be advantageous to vicious ends which make all things so applyed unlawfull I see no cause why sober and modest women should despair or be denyed to turn them to a better use and honester account since they are as apt for the one as the other and fall as much under the power of good as evill minds to have them If that oracle hold true as it must because Divine in all things of free and indifferent natures and use that is upon which no restraint of God speciall command is laid as none is upon the Churches Christian in outward things That to the pure all things are pure That nothing is unclean that is morally and sinfully in it self as the blessed Apostle was perswaded by the Lord Jesus These will include in their large circumference what ever is used to advance the complexion or hide the defects of the face as well as any other parts of the body both as to the nature of the things used and the Conscience of those who purely use them Since we see that the highest abuse of Gods creatures to Idolatrous services and sacrifices which was the most provoking sin did no way prejudge or hinder the liberty of a believer to eat or drink of those things to farre different ends As there was no Idolatry in eating things offered by others to Idols if there was no regard to the Idol whose it properly was not but to God whose rightly it was So nor can I see any Adultery in the use of those helps to handsomnesse where there is no adulterous intent or evill thought in the heart whose prime moter or spring as to its end and purpose being set true to the measure of Gods will the outward wheeles motions and indications cannot go amisse Since the end of the command in that as in all things is a pure heart faith unfaigned and a good Conscience 1 Tim. 1. 5. § What your LaP Ladyship objects That the use of any artificiall beauty may be an occasion to anothers sin a snare and temptation to them Truly so may all outward adornings which have something in them of a complaisance and takingnesse yea and the most innocent native beauty may be made a baite to the devils hooks yet do I not think your LaP Ladyship will therefore either deforme your beauty or not both own esteem and improve it to your civill advantages Else in vain had handsomnesse been given by God as a favour to so many sober women who were as conspicuous for their beauty as their vertue being every way compleately lovely like apples of gold set in pictures of silver Such were Sarah Rebekah Esther Jobs daughters c. Thus I have I hope answered the weight of your LaP Ladyship argument drawn from the 7th Commandment which forbids onely the abuse of things by depraved and adulterous minds not the use of them to sober and civill ends § As to the wit of it which makes all mending the complexion or lookes of our faces to be a kind of Self-adultery A metamorphosis of Gods work A confuting of his distinctions set upon his creatures A rekindling the fire which God hath quenched and adventuring again into the storme whence one is happily escaped c. § My first Answer is That it is hard to extract one drop of spirits or quintessence of reason and right argumentation as to point of sin and stating the conscience from many handfuls and heaps of Rhetorical flowers and parabolicall allusions which are but light skirmishings and not serious contendings in matters of Religion Such sparks and flashes of Oratory which are the main stock and strength of most opposers in this case are rather like the hedge-creeping light of gloe-wormes than that celestiall vigor of divine Truth whose beams have a star-like sublimity and constancy of shining As to the change and Alteration which is odiously called a Self-adulterating T is true there is some little change of the complexion from a greater degree of pallor to a lesse possibly to some little quickning of rednesse yet not so as to make any greater change on the face or cheeks than is frequently made by the blushings of those that are of most modest looks and tenderest foreheads This makes no more a new face or person so as to run any hazard of confusion or mistake than usually befalls women in their sicknesses and ordinary distempers incident both to single and maried persons Who sometimes appear pallidly sad as if they were going to their graves other whiles with such a rosy cheerfulnesse as if they had begun their resurrection so that this artificial change is but a fixation of natures inconstancy both imitating its frequent essayes and helping its variating infirmities Nor doth all this so terrible a change amount to more than a little quicknesse of colour upon the skin It alters not the substance fashion feature proportions temper or constitutions of nature which is oft done or at least endeavoured by severall applications both inward as to physicall receipts of all kinds Also outward by more gross and mechanick arts which strive by many wayes to conceal cover and supply natures grosser deformities and defects even as to the very substance of parts no lesse than to the additions of borrowed ornaments Thus the baldnesse thinnesse and as both men and women think the deformity of their haire is usually supplyed by borders and combings