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A19624	A lasting ievvell, for religious woemen In the summe of a sermon, preached at the funerall of mistris Mary Crosse, late wife of Mr. Henry Crosse of Barnestaple in the countie of Deuon merchant, Nouemb. 11. 1628. and now published with some additions. With a briefe description of her life and death. By William Crompton, preacher of the Word of God at Barnestaple in Deuon.	Crompton, William, 1599?-1642.	1630 (1630)	STC 6058; ESTC S117122	20,905	44

fairer any are the more carefull should they be not to offend by it themselues or others and the more thankfull for it many good things of nature require more seruice to glorifie the author thereof beauty with grace a faire face with an humble holy heart are Iewels of inestimable worth Did faire woemen know how highly outward beauty is set forth by the presence of inward grace Gratior est pulchro c. they would striue for it and seeke each to exceed other Beautie without grace is one of Sathans snares to entrap possessors and passengers both at once Secondly men may hence learne wisedome in two respects First to recall this truth into minde when they are tempted with beautie shall we trust what is knowne to bee deceitfull Secondly that they doe not so much delight in and admire it as to make it the chiefest motiue or ground worke of their loue and liking hee is accounted in the iudgement of wisedome a foolish man that builds on a sandie foundation Math. 7.26 especially considering the following danger For first Stories tell vs that many great ones haue falne hereby Prou. 6.25.7.26 other mens harmes should make vs the more wary principall pillars in Israell Dauid and Salomon father and sonne were foulely shaken what may weake ones feare Secondly besides the discord hath beene raysed betweene Brethren warre proclaimed blood shed onely about this deceitfull beautie the practice of Paris may at any time bring Grecians to the walles of Troy Thirdly and after all suppose it peaceably obtained when outward fauour decaies that loue grounded first thereon will decay also if no further hurt ensue It is reported of Helen or some other of her complexion that on a time after sicknesse viewing her selfe in a glasse and seeing her beautie decayed suddainly fell into a relapse and through the malignitie of a strong conceit dyed Secondly this censures and condemnes the practice of many amongst vs both men and woemen woemen who hauing and seeking nothing else but fauour and beautie bestow all or most part of their time about it curling and cutting the haire painting pinning lacing dressing adorning c. it argues great lightnesse and want of the loue of grace to toyle so about a knowne vanitie how light then many of our English Dames are their practice shewes looking more on the Glasse then on the Bible being more carefull of their faces then their hearts pitty it is faire Creatures should so befoole themselues onely with a meere out-side of good Men that are carried away most with beauty let them learne to see and acknowledge their youthfull error as they desire to be saued are not you one cause of their misery offences may come but woe to them by whom they come I see not how it can be auoyded for did not woemen by experience see men preferring outward endowments to inward graces we should quickly finde a generall change woemen would striue to be good did they see men affect goodnesse it is ordinary policie to vse that baite which the fish most delight to play with in this worst age of ours what is most looked after in woemen but beautie riches or both are they rich beautifull of rich parentage is there any hope of preferment by them in the world Religion the chiefest linke between man and wife grace and a vertuous education is little respected this makes woemen admire the one as their chiefest good neglect the other as little worth Let such men know a day will come when they shall confesse and bewayle this pleasing and selfe-deceiuing error if they bee not arraigned as guiltie in part of Female folly Thirdly here is comfort for such as settle their affection on better ground vpon the image of Christ and the graces of the spirit shining in the partie affected this Foundation is rockie durable the proportion will neuer change nor the beautie decay the gates of hell shall neuer preuaile against it by vse it increases and out-liues the nipping blasts of all-consuming time fauour is deceitfull and beautie is vanitie why should any bee proud that haue it or grieue that want it a wrinckled forehead swarthy complexion a person in bodie or in face any wayes deformed with a vertuous religious mind appeares more beautifull to the eye of iudgement then the fairest Creature in the world Not so since Eue assented to the craftie Serpent none of her posterity appeare beautifull but such as are dipt in the blood of Christ and cloathed with his righteousnesse For the censure of some scornefully foolish in bewraying their owne ignorance passe it ouer it cannot harme you a good soule shall not be denyed entrance into heauen for want of beautie Let me therefore exhort you my dearely beloued in the Lord men and woemen affect not fauour it is deceitfull dote not on beautie it is vanitie To Professors of Christs Gospell I speake fashion not your selues to this world mispend not precious time in pampring foode for wormes the greatest gallant and fairest face shall stoope ere long to lodge in clay beleeue it now or else you will one day find it so when it is too late build not your affection on such a sandie foundation the sturdie windes will ruinate whatsoeuer you erect thereon Salomon spake out of experience deare bought you haue wisedome offered you at a cheape rate and it may be as good as that which is further fetcht contemne nor flight it not Consider what is truth and the Lord blesse it vnto you Secondly in that the feare of the Lord is here opposed to fauour and beautie and by opposition preferd we learne that the feare of the Lord with good workes are woemens chiefest Iewels things of greatest worth I ioyne these two because they cannot well be seperated no filiall feare of God without good workes no good workes without the feare of the Lord these are wo●mens chiefest Iewels and of greatest worth in regard they last longest and become them best yeelding certaine comfort with a free reward that soule which once feeles the benefit will not part with it for all the world The Scripture is euery where full to this purpose Psal 19 9 Esa 33.6 Prouer. 11.16.15.16 the feare of the Lord is excellent and endures for euer the feare of the Lord is a treasure a gracious woman retaines true honour better is a little with the feare of the Lord then great treasure better is a little beautie with the feare of the Lord nay fairer is the foulest face with inward grace then Helens beautie with a proud wanton luxurious mind Prou. 31.10 who can find a vertuous woeman her price is farre aboue rubies therefore it is the Apostles aduice that woemen should array themselues in comely apparell with shamefastnesse and modesty not with broydered haire gold pearles or costly apparell no better ornament for a woeman then an humble mind no richer pearle then a pure heart but as becommeth woemen that professe the

sowe in their Children the seedes of pride and idlenes by keeping them in the fashion for their haire face attire gesture complement c. neglecting the old fashion after which God made them to set them vp on high the churlish thistles daughter must marry with the Cedars sonne only for his height plodding to leaue them rich though gracelesse a greater fault there is in some other parents whose indeauour is to dishearten and hinder their forward children in good courses like the Scribes and Pharisees will neither enter heauen nor suffer those that would I aduise children to honour their parents because of our precept but God more because of many parents are deare Christ dearer their loue precious his inestimable the parents care may adorne the body this feare of the Lord is the soules ornament Secondly this serues to vnuaile the deformed pouertie of such women as want this Iewell though faire yet faithlesse and may be compared to an Irish bogge or quagmire which appeares greene and solid till it be tried then opens her mouth to deuoure the passenger such are faire rich women without grace to looke vnto they are like a bed of downe to touch like a bundle of the sharpest thornes whosoeuer deales with them had better grapple with a nest of snakes their ornaments are all outward and such as are indeede the disgrace of Christianitie borrowing poudering frizeling and cutting of their haire naked breasts ear-rings nose-iewels with strange fantasticke fashions yet what a gay show doe such make esteeming themselues no meane persons no more they are not for they are alwaies in extreames how haughtie are they walking with stretched-forth neckes wanton eyes tripping nicely as they goe how are they admired by simple ones that know them not when as there is nothing in them praise-worthy it must needs bee folly fl●ttery or both to commend them if wee giue them the fruit of their hands and let their owne workes speake for them what a haruest must they reape will they not blush to heare and see pride idlenesse lust drunkennesse laid before them as their owne Oh consider this yee back-sliding proud wanton wine-bibbing loud-speaking daughters the fruit of your hand shall be giuen you when nothing can be spoken of you but will dispraise you here and after death your name and memory shall rott away it is not a bare out-side will praise you nor painting that can preserue you your muffes ruffes laces lawnes perfumes rings bracelets with the rest of that deceitfull burthen a compleatly fashionable woman in our age beares a little packe about her laid aside what is left but a barren carcasse that neuer did nor is like to receiue any good without speedy repentance and reformation Let no vertuous Matrons be discouraged hereby nothing is spoken against yea I haue comfort for them in store Feare not yee I know you feare and seeke the Lord Iesus and what can daunt you should pouertie Christ is your riches sicknesse Christ is your health contempt in this world honoured you are and shall be in heauen want of a good complexion alas it is nothing and it may be it is in mercy those that haue it sinne more about it and encrease sinners amongst men or of due proportion amongst the partes of the body mee thinkes a little grace doth abundantly supply all defects in nature a woeman that feares God appeares alwaies most amiable and louely though in bodie neuer so deformed let this Iewell of the soule comfort you against all other crosses though you had nothing else in this world glorie in this that you know and feare the Lord. I may stay no longer here let me exhort you that haue heard or by any other meanes shall heare what I haue deliuered this day to affect true prayse bee wiues indeed and truth like helpfull parts in a liuing body not in name and shew onely like artificiall eyes which supplying the roome performe no part of the office of an eye wiues neglecting their dutie when they should be helpfull become hurtfull are but the shadowes of wiues and were they shadowes onely it were well with those that haue them if you would haue the reward doe the worke of good wiues seeke the chiefest Iewell weare the best ornament then know though fauour be deceitfull and beautie vanitie yet a woeman that feares the Lord shall be praised We all stand bound to acknowledge this grace in those woemen on whom God hath bestowed it husbands children neighbours yea the whole Church must giue them the fruit of their hands whence arises for our instruction this third and last conclusion That it is a necessary no arbitrary action to giue vertuous women their due commendation beautie is vanitie and fauour deceitfull not worthy naming but a woman that feares the Lord shee shall bee praised that is acknowledged for such and commended besides this precept we find the spirit of God hath practised it else-where it is storied of Ruth Ruth 3.11 that all the people of the Citie did know her for a vertuous woeman that is acknowledge commend and praise her of Abigail 1. Sam. 25.3 that she was a woman of a good vnderstanding in the booke of Kings 2. Kings 4.9 we find the good Shunamite commended and our blessed Sauiour himselfe enioynes it to bee done of one woman Math. 26.13 for a good worke performed by her wheresoeuer this Gospell shall be preached in the whole world there also shall this that this woman hath done be told for a memoriall of her So of Tabitha the spirit records Acts 9.36 that she was full of good workes and almes-deeds which she did Neither is it without Gods guiding prouidence but by speciall direction that humane histories haue beene such faithfull records of the acts of vertuous woemen I confesse some haue impiously dipt their pens ouer-deepe in the waters of Marah going to describe the female sexe so painfully publishing their owne disgrace Suetonius makes mention of Claudia who seeing her father riding through the streets of Rome to be pluckt from his triumphant Chariot by the Tribunes with a masculine boldnesse freed him from their hands placed him againe in his seate and neuer left till shee saw him receiued withall magnificent pompe into the Capitoll Solinus mentions another Romane Lady who when her mother was committed to straight prison by the Triumuiri there to be starued to death shee nourisht her with the milke of her owne brest Plinie tels vs of another who did the like vnto her owne condemned Father Wee read of Alceste that died to saue the life of her husband Admetus drawing from her owne chaste breast such and so many solid drops of blood as erected for her selfe a liuing monument of honour to out-last time the like instance I find in Iulia the wife of Pompey mentioned by Plutarch in Portia the wife of Brutus commended to vs by Valerius Maximinus and in Pompeia Paulina the wife of Seneca with