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master_n	child_n	husband_n	parent_n	3,987	5	7.8229	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42480	A discourse of artificial beauty, in point of conscience between two ladies with some satyrical censures on the vulgar errors of these times.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.; Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1662 (1662)	Wing G353; ESTC R8975	93,452	274

whose thoughts are not as mans thoughts nor his wayes as our wayes Many things are highly esteemed of men as sanctities which God despiseth and many things are lightly condemned by mans imperious rashness which God doth not condemn hence the lawful use of many good things is denied by mans severity and transport where God's benignity onely forbids us the abuse of them and in so doing establisheth the lawfulness of the use which may in this for ought I yet see as well consist with a good Conscience as it did with Solomon's wisdome amidst his domestick and native plenty to send his navy upon long and forein voyages for gold and apes and peacocks Besides this I cannot but observe the self-confuting severity of these men of later and lesser Editions who put such strict restraints on womens beauties and adornings when yet they allow the spiceries and curiosities which merchandizing brings from farre rather to gratifie luxury then relieve necessity Nor do they quarrel at superfluous tables unless they have but puling stomacks with the various arts of cookery which like another Proteus turns the native plainness of things into infinite forms and relishes to please and invite the palate as Rebeccah did Isaac's blunt aged tast by the savoury meat she made for him which it is said that holy man loved Nor are these Masters such batterers or demolishers of stately and elegant buildings they can be friends with goodly hangings and rich furniture with accurate plantations and harmonious gardens with picturings by pencil or embroideries also with the wearing of silks linen and woollen of various and orient colours nor do they frown to see women wear rich Jewels of all colours as Cornelians Rubies Saphirs Emeralds and Diamonds on their breasts necks ears wrists and fingers of which there is no other use in nature but onely the borrowing and ostentating of their several beauties and colours by which to render us more conspicuous or comely As these fixed gemms have their aptitudes for our use on other parts of our bodies so truly have other diffusive tinctures and colourings their fitness and almost propriety for the face if they be discreetly applied For both these as all things else of extern ornament may be so grosly handled and laid on as they shall seem no more to ones advantage either of comeliness or discretion then a Jewel in a swines snout as Solomon speaks Persons of worth and prudence will in the first place keep their hearts in the use of all such things from offending God next they will preserve themselves from being ridiculous among discreet persons as those may easily be who know not how to distinguish a civil quickning or chearful enlivening of the face as of old times was done by their anointings and a slovenly besmearing themselves like Bartholomew-babies with fulsome dawbings which proclaim though not foul yet foolish hearts As for those causless curses and Anathemas that God cannot or will not know them that no painted face shall see the face of God or the like which as blind thunderbolts some men by a Papal authority or popular facility promiscuously cast upon all never so modest humble and vertuous women who use any relief to their looks I believe as Solomon tels us they shall not come upon the heads of those who using this as other creatures of God for those ends to which they have an aptitude in nature do yet so watch over their hearts as not to suffer any outward momentary adornings whatsoever to leven them with any thing of pride of sinful vanity but alwaies keep within the bounds of modesty and chastity to which cleanliness and decency are no enemies And even in these solemn terrors by which some men seek to terrifie poor souls they run more upon the stock of Satyrical wit then solid arguments as if Conscience were onely to smell on nosegayes or flowers and not to be fed with serious and divine truths which are the food and physick too of the Soul By the same fallacy they may urge that God will not know elderly men in their juvenile perukes in their shaved cheeks and bald chins which affect youthful smoothness when gray hairs and wrinckles every where call for gravity of aspect as well as manners of which a fatherly prolix and reverential beard is a solemn sign and majestick Embleme May it not as well be said God will not admit men or women to heaven with all their pomp and cost of apparel since he made them naked and yet not ashamed Yea may they not cry down eating drinking sleeping marrying recreation yea even that part of humane nature which is flesh and blood in us because none of these things either of vital use or infirmer nature shall enter into the kingdome of heaven or come into the presence of God when they shall indeed be superfluous through the bodies higher glory and perfection which shall then exceed the shining of Moses his face and equal the transfiguration of Christ Yet are not these sinful enjoyments or unlawful ornaments in this state of mortality and infirmity to which mankind is now subjected by reason of sin different states admit of different things many toyes in comparison are allowed us by our heavenly Father while we are children here which shall be put away when we come to perfect age and stature in heaven Though the whole need no physician yet the sick may lawfully use their skill and applications to remedy their infirmities not onely as to health and strength but also to the vigour and colour of their looks else such as have the Green-sickness pallor or the Jaundise either black or yellow or any such deformity may not use means to cure themselves both internal and external for as neither of them are forbidden so I suppose both to be lawful in their kind and use Like to the feebleness of such mens reasonings against all artificial beauty are their impertinent and wrested allegations of Scripture whereby to justifie their severities which no doubt your Ladiship hath observed as well as I have though your discretion thinks not fit to urge them being as easily answered as they are fallaciously alledged OBJECTION XIII Of Peter Martyr against Painting the Face from many Scripture-instances Answered SUch as those which I have read in an Author of no mean note or obscure name who dreadfully and purposely inveighing against all use of art to advance the beauty or colour of the face with great gravity and vehemency tells us as from the Apostles mind that we cannot be the servants of the Lord if we seek to please men therefore women may not use any such complexioning to please their own or their husbands or others aspects O weighty and profound Divinity by which neither wives may please their husbands nor children their parents nor subjects their Princes nor servants their masters nor tradesmen their customers but like the serpents teeth Christians must rise up