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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14007	A discourse against painting and tincturing of women Wherein the abominable sinnes of murther and poysoning, pride and ambition, adultery and witchcraft are set foorth & discouered. Whereunto is added The picture of a picture, or, the character of a painted woman.; Treatise against painting and tincturing of men and women	Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.; Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657. Picture of a picture. aut	1616 (1616)	STC 24316A; ESTC S118556	52,636	80

reported that the inuenter of Magicke Zeorastres a King of Bactria was burned to death by the diuel And I pray you what got Saul by his witch-seeking Was not his destructiō told him which accordingly came to passe And Buchanan telles vs how Naxlicus a Scotish King was slaine euen by the man whom hee had sent vnto a witch to inquire of the successe of his affaires and of the length of his life the witch hauing afore told the fellow that hee was the man that should slay him By all which we plainely see that God is offended with these diuellish arts and all that vse them How is it then to be lamented that in this cleare light of the Gospell there should be found amongst vs to the dishonour of God and of his Religion and the infamie of our Nation men that haue yeelded themselues disciples Students and practicioners in these hollish arts which Saint Iohn calleth the deepe things of Satan Reuel 1. 24. and haue fearefully prostituted themselues to become base instruments and vassals to act and accomplish the hests and commands of wicked ones vpon whom though the iustice of the State hath taken hold as one W●ston and Franklin and hath made them publique spectacles of wrath to the terror of others yet considering the open signes of their true penitencie we are to hope charitably of them and to say of them as S. Paul doth in another case 1. Cor. 5. 5. that they were deliuered ouer vnto death to the destruction of the flesh that their spirit might bee saued in the day of the Lord Iesus And I desire all men by the mercies of God to abhorre and forsake all such vngodlinesse and to deucte themselues vnto God alone their Maker and Redeemer studying to serue him in righteousnesse and holines all the daies of their life For obedience is better then sacrifice and to hearken then a the fat of Rammes And the truth is that all the plagues and iudgements that euer came vpon the children of Israel light vpon them for their rebellion against God and their disobedience to his word And questionlesse it is come to passe by the iust iudgement of God that these offenders we haue spoken of and haue lately seene cut of were giuen ouer of God and left vnto themselues because they listened not vnto him but were disobedient vnto his word O this disobedience it is as the sinne of Witchcraft and Idolatrie it is in truth the mother and nurse of all iniquitie God hath two sorts of iudgements iudgements for men to keepe and iudgements for men to beare and God hath two sorts of Ministers Ministers of his Word and Ministers of his Sword now it is iust with God that they which will not keepe his iudgements should vndergo his iudgements and that they that wil not be reformed by his word should be punished and cut off with the sword and that such as regard not the power and doctrine of Ministers should feele to their smart the authoritie and force of Magistrates THe great God of heauen and earth euen the Father of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ be mercifull vnto vs and forgiue vs our sinnes all our abominable and crying offences keepe backe and remoue his iudgements from vs continue his blessings amongst vs preserue and prosper our noble King and all his kingdomes detect and bring vnder all his enemies and grant vs truth and peace and loue through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Trin-vni Deo Gloria THE PICTVR OF A PICTVR OR THE CHARACTER of a Painted woman SHe is a creature that had need to be twice defined for she is not that she seemes And though shee bee the creature of God as she is a woman yet is she her owne creatrisse as a picture Indeed a plaine woman is but halfe a painted woman who is both a substantiue and an adiectiue and yet not of the neuter gender but a feminine as well consorting with a masculiue as Iuie with an Ash She loues grace so well that she will rather die then lacke it There is no truth with her to fauour no blessing to beautie no conscience to contentment A good face is her god and her cheeke well died is the idoll she doth so much adore Too much loue of beautie hath wrought her to loue painting and her loue of painting hath transformed her into a picture Now her thoughts affections talke studie worke labour and her very dreames are on it Yet all this makes her but a cynamon tree whose barke is better then her bodie or a peece of guilded copper offered for current gold She loues a true looking-glasse but to commend age wants and wrinkles because otherwise she cannot see to lay her falshood right Her body is I weene of Gods making and yet it is a question for many parts thereof she made her selfe View her well and you'ill say her beautie 's such as if shee had bought it with her pennie And to please her in euery of her toies would make her maide runne besides her wits if she had any Shee 's euer amending as a begger 's a peecing yet is she for all that no good penitent For she loues not weeping Teares and mourning would marre her making and she spends more time in powdring pranking and painting then in praying Shee 's more in her oyntments a great deale then in her orizons Her religion is not to liue wel but die well Her pietie is not to pray well but to paint well She loues confections better a great deale then confessions and delights in facing and feasting more then fasting Religion is not in so great request with her as riches nor wealth so much as worship She neuer chides so heartilie as when her box is to seeke her powder 's spilt or her clothes ill set on A good Bed-friend shee 's commonly delighting in sheetes more then in shooes making long nights and short daies All her infections are but to gaine affections for she had rather die then liue not please Her lips she laies with so fresh a red as if she sang Iohn come kisse me now Yet it 's not out of loue excepting self-loue that she so seekes to please but for loue nor from honesty but for honor t is not piety but praise that spurres her She studies to please others but because she wold not be displeas'd her self And so she may fulfil her own fancy she cares not who els she doth befoole A name she preferres to nature and makes more account of fame then faith And though shee do affect singularity yet she loues plurality of faces She is nothing like her self saue in this that she is not like her self She sildō goes without a paire of faces and she s furnisht with stuffe to make more if need be She saies a good archer must haue 2. strings to his bow but she hath hers bent both at once yet you must not say she weares 2. faces vnder one hood for that she

affaires of his office where deceit sometimes is very gainefull The naturall forme and colour is not laid to a mans charge but only that which is counterfet and ascitious Vtnatura dedit sic omnis recta figura Turpis Romano Belgicus ore color Natures forme and fauour is right and good But Belgick colours becoms no Roman blood that is to say The waste of France and such painting stuffe are disgracefull in an Italian If an old woman painted her self they vsed to say Lecythum habet in malis which is a certaine enigmaticall and biting by-word vsed against old wiues that they cloked their wrinkles with their artificiall dawbings Festus Pompeius saith that common and base whores called Schoenicole vsed daubing of themselues tho with the vilest stuffe Diogenes said to one that had annointed his haires Caue ne capitis suaue ölentia vitae maleolentiam adducat Beware thy sweet head make not thy life stinke so may it well be said to those that buy and borrow their fauour and their colour beware lest this borrowed grace bring yee not into disgrace both with God and his children and that the counterfetting of forme doe not deforme you Surely the Lord did most terribly threaten the proud and wanton Dames of Israel for their pride wantonnesse and vanities And may it not be said of these painted faces as the Lord said of that people The shew of their countenance doe witnesse against them Doubtlesse this kind of fauour finds no fauour no one word of praise in all the word of God In Iesabel who painted her eyes is propounded saith Piscator an ensample of a proud woman Nec bona est eafacies quaeista quaerit adiumenta It is no good face saith Martyr which seekes these helpes Let vs in the meane while consider the impudencie of a wicked woman who being in extreame danger yet shewes no token of repentance Imo vacat fuco yea shee bestowes her time in painting of her face And on the Prophet Ieremie where mention is made of painting the face or eyes Saint Hierome in his Comments saith He speaketh vnder the figure of an adulterous woman In like manner Caluin thus writing on the said place saith that the Prophet hath respect to the furniture of whores Because the people was like an adulterous woman And whores saith he to intise adulterers are wont to paint their faces and by such allurements to entangle and catch men And where as Ezekiel also doth once make mention of this painting Saint Hierome others likewise consenting with him saith vpon the same place Thou hast fulfilled all the habit of an adulterous woman This painting therefore being no better entertained in the word of of God and being as we haue heard before a worke of Satan there is no reason at all why Christian women should be addicted to it I would thinke women should beware of the Serpent who hath an oare in this boat as Clemens sheweth seeing their mother was beguiled with him of old and that they al fare the worse for him still Neither doe I reade that euer any graue and discreet woman vsed these deceits Some write of some barbarous people which delight in painting their skinne Saint Hierome writes that Maximilla Montanus his Prophatisse a woman diuell-driuen did vse to paint And there is also mention in the Ecclesiasticall historie made of one Prisca who practised the same arts Caesar likewise writes that the Britanes vsed to colour their faces with their Woad but this was not out of pride or wantounesse but to strike a terror in their enemies with whom they were to fight But me thinks Christians should not onely bee but seeme so the children of wisedome should not only be such but seeme such they that professe modesty and humilitie or which haue promisde it in their Baptisme should not onely bee modest and humble but appeare to be so by their shewes And to vse the words I find in Peter Martyr As Paul said There is a difference betwixt a married woman and a virgin so may we say there should bee a difference betweene the handmaidens of Christ and the handmaides of the diuell The handmaids of the diuell because they are vnchast doe vse these pictures wherefore the handmaids of Christ should flie from them that they might shew themselues to be vnlike to them In goodsooth if Christian women will so colour and paint themselues I pray you what doth a matrone differ from an harlot I remember Saint Ambrose saith that Inipso motu gestu incessu tenenda verecundia modestie is to bee kept euen in the motion gesture and gate and shall it be banished out of the face Habitus enim mentis in corporis statu cernitur For saith he the condition of the mind is discerned in the state and behauior of the body Without doubt then a deceitfull and effeminate face is the ensigne of a deceitfull and effeminate heart Ne dicalis vos habere animos pudicos si habcatis oculosimpuaicos Say not saint Saint Austin that you haue modest and chast affections if ye haue vnchast and wanton eyes so I say say not that thou hast the heart of a chast and humble woman if thou hast the face and fauour of a proud dame or wanton minion And to vse the words of Tertullian How farre from our disciplines and professions how vnworthy the name of Christian is it to haue a fained face to whom all simplicitie is commended to lie with the countenance who may lie with their tongue to desire that which is not granted who should abstaine from that which is not theirs and to practise the making of shewes and faces whose studie is to be chast and modest These artes make those that vse them too like the diuels who though they bee Angels of darknesse yet to worke some feate they will now and then transforme themselues into Angels of light they are one thing but to deceiue they will seeme another And in truth I wonder how they dare pray to God with such impure faces How shall they looke vp to God with a face which he doth not owne How can they begge pardon when their sinne cleaues vnto their faces and * when they are not able for to blush How can shee weepe for her sinnes saith Saint Hierom when herteares will make furrowes in her face With what confidence doth she list vp her countenances to heauen which her Maker acknowledges not Youth is in vaine pretended and girlish age alleaged for excuse What hope is there that God will heare whilest her hart is set on vanitie and pride on wantonnesse and deceit Dauid saith If I regard iniquitie in mine heart the Lord wil not heare me We know saith one in the Gospell God heareth not sinners but if any man be a worshipper of God and doth his will him he heareth Doubtlesse these curiosities are not things indifferent as some imagine them to bee It is

are fallen into those perillous times prophecied of by Saint Paul in which men shal be proud vnthankfull vnholy traytors ambitious incontinent bloodie despisers of those that are good louers of pleasures more then of God hauing the forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof And with our eyes we see that true which Esay speaketh Let fauour saith he bee shewed to the wicked yet will hee not learne righteousnesse in the land of vprightuesse will be deale vniustly and will not behold the maiestie of the Lord. See wee not what the Lord hath done for this Nation how hee hath planted his Church among vs and giuen vs peace on all sides round about vs See we not how hee hath giuen vs his Gospell and all his ordinances of saluation and leaue to vse them freely openly falsely in all tranquilitie See we not how hee hath blest vs with two such noble and vertuous Princes one most happily succeeding another such as in truth the whole world since the beginning of their reignes which is now neere 60. yeeres is not able to match in either sex in all their Royall and Christian indowments and how hee hath protected them to this very day someties in a manner miraculously against the many barbarous and diuellish treacheries and trayterous machiuelions and attempts of their wicked aduersaries See wee not with what ease and clemency their Gouernments haue continued and what flouds of temporall fauours haue streamed from the heauens by them vnto vs so as that we may say with Dauid The Lord is with vs he hath prepared a table before vs in the presence of our enemies hee hath annointed our heads with oyle and our cuprunneth ouer Psalm 23. 4. 5. And yet for all this the wicked will not amend but most horrible and transcendent villanies most grieuous and foule enormities breake out among vs to the dishonour of God the disgrace of Religion the shame of their Countrie the griefe of their King and of all good Christian hearts in so much that if there were not amongst vs those that mourned for these euils which vngodly men reioyce to commit and but that thankes bee to God for it there is an exact and iust proceeding against ali such enormious persons wee might well haue feared some notable and fearefull iudgement had been neere vnto vs. Now all sinnes deserue ill with God but some there are that for their heinousnesse are said to crie in the eares of the Lord such as is the sinne of murder as appeares by the speech of God to Caine after he had murdered his brother Abel What hast thou done saith God The voyce of thy brothers blood crieth vnto mee from the ground Genesis 4. 10. This sinne was so fearefull to Dauid as that with a carefull and pensiue heart he prayed against it vnto God Deliuer mee from bloud guiltinesse O God thou God of my saluation Psalm 51. 14. And speaking of bloody people he saith The Lord will abborre the bloody and deceitfull man Psalm 5. 6. And againe The bloodie and deceitfull man shall not liue out halfe his dayes Genesis 9. 5. And indeede the blood of the life of a man is so precious in Gods eye as that hee telles Noah and his sonnes that he will require the bloud of man at the hand both of man and beast And to stay vs from this so vnnaturall a sinne besides his commandement that forbids it he shewes that euen the praiers of murderers shall find no fauour with him so long as their sinne cleaues vnto them When ye spread forth your hands saith he I will hide mine eyes from you yea when yee make many prayers I will not heare your hands are full of blood And if we marke the dealings of God with murders it wil appeare that very seldom or neuer they scape vnpunished but by one meanes or other he finds them out and meets with them though it be by suffering them to murder themselues The first murderer in the world Caine was not indeed kild by God but hee was suffered to liue such a life in such torments of conscience and frightings as if he had had an hell within him wandring vp and downe like a vagabond vpon the earth that whosoeuer saw him and was acquainted with the curse of God that went along with him could not but bee terrified from committing murder Abimelech out of ambition murdered 70. of his brethren but after had his braine-pan crackt by a woman and was kild out-right by one of his owne men at his owne command Cambyses the son of Cyrus shot a noble mans sonne to the heart with an arrow wittingly and made his owne brother to bee murdered priuily and slue his sister for reprouing him for that deede but at last as hee was riding hee fell downe vpon the point of his sword which had fallen out of the scabbard and so was slaine Cassius and Brutus that had helpt to murder Iulius Caesar in the Senate was afterwards murdered by themselues Phocas that had like a barbarous traytor murdered Mauricius the Emperour his Master was at last taken and put to a most cruell death Hemichild murdered his Lord Albenius a King of Lombardie as hee was in bed Rosimund his Queene hauing her hand in the said murder but the Lord was euen with them both For shee thinking to haue poisoned him after made him drinke halfe her poyson which he feeling in his vaines presently staied his draught and made her drinke vp the remainder and so they died both together Ethelbert King of the East-Angles vniustly and deceitfully murdered at the perswasion of Offa the King of Mercia his Queene which Queene liued not a quarter of a yeere after and in her death was so tormented that she bither tong which she had abused to the causing of that murther in peeces with her teeth Selimus a Turkish Emperour murthered his father Baiazet by poyson but not many yeeres after God tooke him into his hands and smote him with a most lothsome and stinking disease which spread ouer all his body and at length kild him Calippus that slue Dian his familiar friend and committed many other murders afterwards liued an exile and great necessities and at length was kild himselfe And for Dauid himselfe whose hand had been defiled with blood the Lord notwithstanding his great repentance did seuerely chasten him The Lord had threatned him saying The sword shall neuer depart from thine house Behold I wil raise vp euil against thee out of thine own house and so indeed it came to passe For one of his sons killd another and by his owne child hee had liked to haue lost his kingdome And as the Almightie God is iust in punishing of murders so likewise his prouidence watcheth to discouer them that murderers sildome or neuer lie hid but first or last they are discouered It is strange to consider how murders haue been detected sometimes by dogges as that of Lothbroke the Dane of