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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13561	Three treatises The pearle of the gospell, The pilgrims profession: and A glasse for gentlewomen to dress themselues by. To which is added A short introduction to the worthy receiuing of the Lords supper. By Thomas Taylor, Doctor of Diuinity, and late preacher of Aldermanbury Church in London.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Pearle of the gospell. aut; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Pilgrims profession. aut; Gunter, H.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Glasse for gentlewomen to dresse themselves by. aut; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632. Short introduction to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. aut	1633 (1633)	STC 23856; ESTC S113869	74,858	266

expectation of death the time whereof she truly foretold five dayes before it came and as this time approached her joy increased so as she was able to comfort her mournfull husband and friends saying Mourne not for me but for your selues for I shall very shortly be more happy than the wishes of your hearts can make me and therefore cease your mourning and helpe me thither by your prayers as fast as you can Her fourth request was that she might have her memory continued unto the last that so by no idle or light speech she might dishonour God or bring scandall o● her profession for she said If I through paine or want of sleepe which she much wanted should haue any foolish or idletalke I know what the speech of the world vseth to be This is the end of all your precise folke they die mad or not themselues c. And as she prayed God gaue her her memory to the last gaspe that she dyed praying for a little before her departure she called vs that were about her and hasted to Prayer for now said she I shall be gone presently which words we then beleeued not but Prayer being ended she said with more strength than she had spoken any thing foure houres before Amen amen Into thy hands O Lord I commend my spirit Lord Jesus haue mercy on me and receiue my soule And thus with her last breath and words her soule was carried into Abrahams bosome in the Heavens to which her eyes and hands were lifted This was the life and death of this sweet Saint as it was observed and now faithfully witnessed by her mournfull husband who wisheth both his life and latter end like vnto hers FINIS A GLASSE for Gentlewomen to dresse themselues by By THOMAS TAYLOR Doctor in Diuinity and late Preacher of Aldermanberry in London LONDON Printed by I. B. for Iohn Bartlet at the signe of the gilt Cup in Cheap-side 1633. A GLASSE for Gentlewomen to dresse themselues by BEcause I know that sundry women fearing God faile in the matter of their attire and ornament because they want direction which might lead their consciences in stead of the common errour of riotous times And because it is requisite that all that professe the Name of God should bee more carefull of adorning their profession than their persons I haue here set downe a few briefe directions in generall for their helpe that are willing to be ruled by God and his Word and are more desirous to approue themselues vnto him than to please themselues or others with his high displeasure I. First then such must know that the practice of godlinesse depriueth no person of the good creatures of God neither for the necessary nor delightfull fruition of them for it onely giueth right and liberty in them but it ordereth the vse of them and the vsers of them and setteth them in the due place of their goodnesse wherein onely they are beautifull and lawful Rebecca a woman fearing God wore ornaments So Ioseph and Mordecay Ester 8. 2. and Daniel 5. 29. II. Know that we are not at our owne hand in the vse of outward ornaments but vnder rule and appointment God prescribes women how to dresse their heads 1 Pet. 3. 3. and taketh order for the habit of the body and findeth fault with the dressings of the daughters of Sion Isay 3. And threatning the Princes and Kings children cloathed with strange apparell Zeph. 1. 8. speaketh to our Gallants that build towers vpon their heads or erect them as with large hornes or any way take vp an vnlimited liberty in their dresses with some speciall vanity and offence For such dressing of the haire the Lord threatneth the dainty women with baldnesse and shame Isa. 3. III. Such must know that as the kingdome of God standeth not in any of these outward things so they must not bee suffered to hinder the kingdome of God in our selues or others And though they being things so indifferent in themselues as they commend vs not to God yet in the vse of them all wee must exercise certaine vertues in which wee must be acceptable to God and auoyd such vices in the abusing of them as will else discommend vs before him For suppose they be things in their nature neither good nor euill neither commanded nor forbidden as Whether I should weare cloth or leather whether a plaine band or a ruffe whether single or double whether white or yellow yet in the vse of any of these outward and indifferent things my action is either good or euill according to my exercise of vertue or vice in it Neither can any thing be so indifferent in it selfe but it may become euill and sinne in me many wayes as 1. By my election and choyce of it without assurance of my liberty in Christ or with doubting whether I doe well in vsing it or no. 2. By my intention which may be corrupt and vicious in my selfe and preiudiciall to others 3. By many accidentary euents as if others bee by my vse of lawfull and outward liberties occasioned to sinne or thrust forward in carnal licentiousnesse All which I rather propound to be wisely considered for the remouing of that common obiection and conceit That the things are not great and God cares not so much for the dressing of the body so I keepe my heart to him and giue him content in my soule As if these persons conceiued that the body is not the Lords as well as the soule or that that soule can bee Gods when the diuell hath the dressing of the body IV. We must know that although the Word of God af●ord not particular directions for euery particular habit and artire yet we may not thinke it a defectiue rule or short and wanting to guide vs euen in the least or lowest action of our liues because it supplyeth vs with many generall rul●s to all which wee must reduce euery particular action of common life for the allowance or refusall of it And therefore for the help of such as are teachable I thought it might be profitable to apply vnto those generals and bring to their triall this particular of habits and attires vnto which while they are squared none haue so much right to vse them as women fearing God but if they depart from those rules they are not so vnseemely in any as in them The generall Rules are these reduced to foure heads 1. Some concerne God 2. Some our selues 3. Some our brethren 4. Some the ornament it selfe For vnto all these wee must haue respect euen in our Attires and Ornaments I. In respect of God we must attend three rules 1. The first concerneth our warrant and is this No ornament must be vsed but by warrant and leaue from God Our warrant is from the Word our loaue is by prayer the rule for both is expresse 1 Tim. 4. 5. Euery creature of God is good sanctified by the word of God and prayer Whence it