Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	abundant_a	body_n	member_n	1,662	5	10.0159	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44543	The sirenes, or, Delight and judgment represented in a discourse concerning the great day of judgment and its power to damp and imbitter sensual delights, sports, and recreations / by Anthony Horneck ...	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1690 (1690)	Wing H2853; ESTC R8310	130,970	370

to appear in a better As we are Christians Sincerity must be our Character not only in heart but in the outward behaviour and what Sincerity can there be in cheating Men with our Faces and to make them believe that to be natural which we know is counterfeit and artificial We that are naturally prone to Pride and Levity and Lightness of Deportment had not need encourage it by such Incentives and put Oyl to that Fire which without great help is apt to burn into Hell We shall meet with impediments enough from the World and the Devil in our spiritual race it is madness therefore to encrease those Obstastacles by new inventions of our own and we that know how apt every thing is to damp our holy Fervors had not need make use of such vanities to extinguish them In the whole Scripture we read of no Women that ever painted themselves but one that was cursed to a Proverb even Jezabel 2 Kings 9. 33. And Eusebius makes mention of a great instrument of the Devil whereby he sow'd Heresies in the Church that used this Trade viz. Maximilla Even among the Heathen those that did so were none of the best Fame and Credit in the World such as Poppoea Nero's Wife and others and in holy Writ for the most part this delight is described as meritricious and a quality of Strumpets and Harlots as we see Ezek. 23. 40. And certainly neither these Examples nor Descriptions can be any great ●nticement to a Christian to imitate such infamous Patterns who is to remember those who have spoken to him in the Name of the Lord and to follow their Faith considering the end of their convversation Heb. 13. 7. It was an excellent Character St. Gregory Nazianzene gave of the pious Gorgonia No Gold saith he adorned her Temples no flaxen hair no borrowed locks no artificial curles flew about her sacred head no flowing mantles no transparent vails no looser garb that wanton'd in the Air no costly stones vying with the brightness of the Stars no Painters Arts help'd to grace her noble frame no operator assisted her to countermine the work of God in her and by deceitful colours to hide the curious fabrick of her Face or to prostitute the divine shape that was in her to wanton and impurer eyes or to vitiate her natural Image which was reserved for God and another World by an adulterous fictitious Beauty But even then when she was acquainted with all the tricks and modes of ornaments she would acknowledge and own none but what her Piety and the Harmony of her Soul did give her No other Red pleased her but what her modest blushes caused no White but what fasting and abstinence brought into her Cheeks and as for Painting and modish Looks and borrow'd Beauty she left those impertinencies and vanities to actors and Ministers of the Stage persons who have forgot to blush and are ashamed of nothing so much as of sobriety and gravity This is an example for all Christian Women to write Copies by and though the age we live in hath long ago learned to despise this self-denial as a starcht formality and precise niceness yet that doth not make it of less value before Almighty God who sees with other eyes and is resolved to rectifie these wilful mistakes if other means here on Earth will not do it with Eternal Vengeance To this purpose St. Cyprian Art not thou afraid vain Woman who makest use of Paint and Washes and such other curious fooleries about thy Face art not thou afraid that thy Creator when thou comest before him will not know thee but exclude thee rather from the promised Inheritance May not he reasonably use the language of a Censor and a Judge and say This is not my Creature here I see nothing of my Image Thou hast polluted thy skin with false applications the hair I gave thee is changed by Adulterous colours thy face is nothing but a lie the figure of it is corrupted it is another thing than what it was how canst thou see God when thou hast not the looks God gave thee but infected rather by the Devil Him thou hast follow'd thou hast imitated the old Serpeut thou hast borrowed thy Ornaments from thine Enemy and with him thou must burn O my Friends are not these thing to be considered by God's servants A●● not these things at which they may justly tremble day and night Let those who ar● married and flatter themselves that they do it in complisance to their Husbands look to it and see whether they do not in making such excuses accuse themselves of being partners in the sin and as for Virgins and Maids who use these unlawful arts I cannot reckon them in th● number of true Virgins but judge rather that they ought to be removed from other young Women like so many rotten sheep that they do not infect others by their corruption In vain do people plead here that the Apostle 1 Cor. 12. 23. allows us to bestow more abundant honor on those members of the Body which we think to be less honourable and therefore a homely Face may be trick'd up with suitable paints and spots and washes for not to mention that the Apostle by those members doth not mean the face and cheeks but such as modesty bids us conceal The honour there spoken of cannot be understood of paints and washes for they are no Ornaments but dissimulations and deceptions and the honour that is allow'd to such uncomly parts is hiding of them from the sight of Men which I suppose such vain persons will never practise on their Faces And what if the ingredients of such Fucus's be Gods Creatures so is poison too and yet we see few persons so mad as to make use of it so as to drink it nor doth it signifie much that persons may have a good end in all this since we are not to do evil that good may come out of it It 's granted that natural beauty may provoke spectators to lust and lascivious desires as well as artificial yet from thence it follows not that therefore the artificial ought to be allow'd of as well as the natural for there is not the same reason for the one that there is for the other the natural God bestows and cannot be blamed nor did the person that hath it spend time and pains and care to get it the artificial as people cannot endeavour after it but their corrupt minds and affections must prompt them to it so it argues discontentedness with what God hath thought fit to give them and an itching desire to deceive the unwary spectator And suppose natural Beauty allures and tempts voluptuous Men must therefore more evil be added to the former must people therefore increase temptations with artificial Beauty Is not the World bad enough And must it be made worse Must sin be therefore multiplied and the sickly minds of carnal men more and more distemper'd Is it