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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02430	The glasse of mans folly and meanes to amendment, for the health and wealth of soule and body. This glasse of mans folly, is that we may know, the cause of the cruelty, which dayly doth flow. ...	B. H., fl. 1595.	1615 (1615)	STC 12562A; ESTC S118418	51,161	76

Common-wealth-consumers true dealing to be excluded Sensualitie maintained the néedy not nourished Much is spent in pride which causeth Dolus to haue Diues qualities with face of Auarice and anstere countenance to pinch the Poore the Fatherles and defraud the Friendles The proud do preye vpon such If they misse of their purpose they menace and maligne them God hath forbidden it Mal 3.5 and will be a swift witnes against such Yet people procure the heauy curse to painte theyr haultie corps Excesse of Apparell procures couetousnes A Cormorant selleth any thing that an other may not owne Rents are raised Bribes imbraced Timber goeth down without regard of Nauigation Ouidius Crescit amor nummi quantū pecunia crescit as thy money increaseth so doth the loue of it Yet read we The couetous hath no inheritāce in the kingdom of Christ Ephes 5.5 Bursa auari os est diaboli The purse of a couetous man is the mouth of the diuell The eyes of the excessiue are like Hell neuer satisfied Tam deest quod habet quam quod non habet He wanteth that he hath as that he hath not All is to maintain pride The body is decked the soule neglected the Saboth is broken by tricking and trimming meate for maddes In stéed of a Booke to sée our sinnes some foote two houres in a glasse to frame a frontlet Ruffs must haue Rebatoes If she turne her face her body turneth else the ruffe is brused So her neck standeth stiffe stretched like her sisters of Syon and shewing her shamelesse labour she comes to the Cathedrall when Sermon is halfe done in time to be séene though not to learne farre finer then at the doale the day before She feares no arresting her husband is hidden Excesse brought his distresse Yet if drinked drop on her great ruffe a change present some shall pay for it O Earth thinke on the fearfull Iudgement shewed on a woman in Antwerpe as it is related to whome the diuell appeared to set her Ruffs which whē he had finished he kissed her wroong her necke in twoo Her bodie suddenly changed blacke and blewe painted and coloured small to her profite Laid in a toumbe she was suddenly gone and a blacke deformed Cat in the roome If curious Ruff-mongers be incredulous of this I wish them beware least to them come the like Acts 12. Gay Attyre is a meanes to pull the minde from heauen Herode in his Royall Apparell vnmindefull of God was smitten of the Angell The attire of the Daughters of Syon procured the sworde Esay 3. Iezabel presently after her Attyring and painting had paine Many procure theyr pouertie and paine Fellowes prophane consume theyr substance to please theyr Paramours Oh yée that are ouercome by Venus rather by Venerie be not led by ignorant arrogant wenches whose wanton attyre bewrayes a Harlots heart I am painted to play with Oh Worme for wormes thy carcas shall be Carren thou hast prickes in thy forehead be prickt with repentance O Salax be sanctified be clothed with Sobrietie repent with Fidelitie Remember thy winding shéete when that is consumed thy carcas shal be naked Coseners are Theeues as wasps among Bees Doe not for inordinate loue thereof vndoe thy selfe Following fashions procures briberie and chaseth brotherly societie Some braue doe brag they are of hability So get they goods in credite but flée in falshood Others to allure like the Harlot Prou 7. The Leopard by his spotted skinne inticeth Beasts and killeth them His skinne is good his flesh is naught So Sepulchers are painted yet full of putrefaction Fine are some outsides as if the insides were answerable it smelleth of Hypocrisie we are full of corruption It was the saying of an Emperour Sumptuousnes of Apparel is Vexillum superbiae Nidus Luxuria The Banner of Pride the nest of Lust Herodotus writeth in his Booke that Iuda Dictator of Rome had a Sonne being prickt vp in gay apparell had no minde of his book but delighted in pride at length was hanged as many are in these dayes whose Parents farre inferior deck their bodies and neglect their soules which makes them so hautie that their Hattes are heauie in presence of Magistracie Pride makes them forget the God of might to whom be all honour for euer Amen Superna curate ¶ Excesse of Apparell reprooued S. Paule willeth that Women adorne themselues in modest apparell with shamefastnes and sobrietie Whereby we must learne that modest apparell sister in equalitie to shamefastnes and sobrietie doth more adorne and beautifie But the contraries are common Immodest apparell out of measure boldnesse and light behauiour A Garment is fittest to modestie voyde of superfluitie Who goe more in gaudes then great mens Idiotes Yet many imitate the same with néedlesse vanities and tokens of wantonnesse Excesse is so in vse that shamefastnes and modestie with manie are absent when Curiositie gay Tufts great Ruffs stiffe Necks Stout-looke with small Grace is present Bold as a Bull with tokens of dishonesty blushing no more then a beast The holy Ghost fordiddeth Broydered haire or golde or pearles or costly Aray Some say It is not costly so long as they can maintaine it Consider The Lorde threatned to punish the Princes and the Kings children and all such as are clothed with strange Apparell Much more ought Cincinnata to feare Zephan 1.8 which is poore yet pompous We must not clad clay to the outmost of abilitie but learne the Apostles meaning for golde pearles and costly Aray is not only forbiddē but also broided haire which is not costly but plaited bushed or laid out wherby all pōp prouocations to euill is forbidden which wanton women procure in decking themselues For it is is a meanes to drawe the heart to delight the bodie and leaude pleasures thereof the World and vanities thereof to renounce Gods Kingdome and the Ioyes thereof to haue Hell and the torments thereof Therefore such vanitie is forbidden and the habite agreable to modestie shamefastnes and sobrietie commanded Noahs Arke was pitched without and within So the outward habit must be as the humble hart our harts must be reformed else our actions are abhorred 1. Peter 3. Whose adorning let it not bee that outward of plaiting the haire and of wearing of golde or of putting on of Apparell It requires the Ornament of a méeke and quiet spirite as holie men which trusted in God adorned themselues Cap 5. He bids them be clothed with humilitie For GOD resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble But many are clothed with haughtines as if pleasures were their God The 7. commandement is Thou shalt not commit adultry which is to be vnderstood the euill acte and prouocations as vnchast behauiour 1. Thess 5. wanton apparell Abstain from all appearance of euill That hath any shewe of euill It is written Deut 22.5 The woman shall not weare that which partaineth vnto a man neither shall a mā put on

a womās garmēt This seemes a small matter so did it to Eue to taste forbidden fruit Oh foolish flesh it followes for all that doe so are abhomination vnto the Lord thy God It seemes some care not to be abhorred of God they will be as fine as D. in their Dubblets liker men then women wanton apparell is forbidden vers 11. Thou shalt not weare a garment of diuers sorts as of Wollen and Linnen together but where the lusts of the flesh are delighted God is not regarded for some at Font for fashion vowe to him that they forsake the Deuill and all his workes the vaine pompe and glory of the world tha carnall desires of the flesh and that they will not follow nor be led by them yet painted for a Play ruft like a royster Some that haue hayre of their owne are not content with the colour God gaue it but weare hayre none of their owne Others launch out their hayre dyed a Trim-tawny then must be muske to preuent the sent so perseuering in wanton behauiour they breake their fidelitie and couenant made with God promise in Baptisme is forgotten Oh be not hypocrites but Christians in déede promises to men must be perfomed Psal 15. much more vowes made to God Forsake your vanities follow righteousnesse Psal 76.11 Deu. 23.21 lest yee feele your folly Esa 3. The Lord saith because the daughters of Zion are hautie and walke with stretched forth neckes and wanton eyes walking and mincing as they goe and making a tinkling with their feet he would take away their brauerie and giue them in stéed of well set hayre baldnesse which came to passe with much miserie You with great Ruffes and stretched neckes leaue it when pride is at the highest it is neerest the fall 2 Kings 9. Iezabel painted her face and attired her head but presently trodden vnder feet and torne with Dogges yet painting and making the face shine like a shoing-horne is common Qui se pingunt in hoc seculo aliter quam creauit Deus Cyprian metuant ne cum dies resurrectionis venerit artifex creaturam suam non recognoscat Those which paint or colour themselues in this world otherwise then God hath made them let them feare lest when the day of Iudgement commeth the Lord will not know them for his creatures Some will haue their beauty decored it is to be feared their soules are deformed And as their soules are alienated and estranged so their bodies are metamorphosed and changed from the fashion God framed them Exornation hath no order Many make themselues gasing-stockes till they proue poore and are kept on the Parish Prou. 7. She that inticed the young man was clothed in harlots attire whereby we gather by the holy Ghost that intincing attyre is whorish Tit. 2. Temperance is an adiunct to Christians if Adam and Eue had continued in their first estate garments had beene néedlesse and shall we extoll our selues in that which our perfidious act procured Will a Théefe gild the rope his théeuish act hath purchased If a Sempronian say The rope bereft the life but apparell preserues the same I say costly array which is by Gods word forbidden is a meanes to kill Body and Soule Prou. 3.5 Leane not vnto thine owne vnderstanding the least sinne deserues damnation yet we forsake heauenly directions and follow fleshly affections Suus cuiusque crepitus sibi bene olet euery one thinketh his owne wayes best O be not wey-ward but warned for the holy Ghost speakes not in vaine God made Adam and Eue coates of skinnes Gen. 3.21 and cloathed them yet they had the superioritie of the whole Earth Therefore this prepared apparell for them should be as a glasse to vs to sée and flye from Folly and a Pedagogie to teach vs to vse it for necessitie not for sensualitie But how agrée the comely coates of these wealthy Gouernours with the superfluous fashions of Wat Waste-all and fooleries of Minion Marre-all which goe past their abilitie shamelesse and gracelesse with all their wealth in vanities to be viewed And how agreeth fancy fine nobles with iagges welts gardes gay tufts great Rufs confused sets supporters bushes to make their bodies straight and want of Gods word to rule their soules right their corked héeles set vp so hie that some doe tread awry They despise and didiget at those that weare small Bands and plaine decent apparell which are worne for foure causes First to be obedient to God and agreeable to his word Secondly for a helpe to pull downe our pride Thirdly to win others Fourthly they maintaine it with trueth and honestie Boe ashamed you and yours that consume all by your excesse Pride is combined with witlesse fashions Some men are like monsters with Ruffes farre excéeding former Ruffins Boyes haue shalt haired heads some bigger a curious cut lockes for pediculus long of each side stigmaticall like He that subiected his body saith Doth not euen Nature it selfe teach you that if a man haue long hayre it is a shame vnto him 1 Cor. 11. Nitimur in vetitum semper cupimusque negata We desire things forbid and couet things denyed vs. Spanish pompe and Spaniards pride hath long lockes as if they were ashamed of their eares with Shirts hanging out at knees disguised from top to toe as if they went to the pit infernall A mans attire and excessiue laughter and gate Ecclus. 19.30 shew what he is Ambr. 1. Officior Est in ipso motu gestu incessu tenenda verecundia habitus enim animi in corporis statu cognoscitur Externall actions bewraye internall affections some excéed in varietie as though they might spend much a yere by Land yet nothing Men of Nobilitie Gentilitie and Yeomen of habilitie goe decent and plaine when farre inferiours are shin-trim and garded with others goods got by guile O earth be humble Gen. 2.7 thou wert made of that beasts tread vpon Gen. 3.14 and of that Serpents eate on Our first Parents were Gods Vicegerents and God could as easily haue cloathed them in gorgeous apparrell as in plaine coates of skinnes Then minde it it was to mooue vs to mediocritie Those garmenes speake to vs that GOD allowes vs cloths to couer our nakednes but not to abuse them in excesse Christ nor his Apostles gaue no such examples Christs garment was without seame Math. 3. Iohn had his rayment of Camels hayre and a leathern pelt about his loynes Gods children haue beene content to weare sheepes skinnes and Goates skinnes Heb. 11.37 Garments according to euery mans calling plaine and comely are commendable we may vse them but not abuse them It is lawfull to eate drinke and weare apparell but excesse of eyther incurres Gods displeasure Hauing food and raiment Tim. 6. let vs therewith be content It is more then God owes vs and wee proud beggars deserue nothing but damnation Content must be when wee haue but food and rayment if riches wee must not consume