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A38449	Englands vanity or The Voice of God against the monstrous sin of pride, in dress and apparel wherein naked breasts and shoulders, antick and fantastick garbs, patches, and painting, long perriwigs, towers, bulls, shades, curlings, and crispings, with an hundred more fooleries of both sexes, are condemned as notiriously unlawful. With pertinent addresses to the court, nobility, gentry, city and country, directed especially to the professors in London / by a compassionate conformist.	Compassionate conformist.	1683 (1683)	Wing E3069; ESTC R32945	62,360	146

as these that great St. Austin in one of his Epistles to Possidius gives him this necessery charge Tom. 2. Epist 37. ad Possid Nolo ut de Ornamentis Auri vel vestis preproperam habeas in prohibendo sententiam Be not rash in passing too hasty a Judgment against the Ornaments of the Rich And some perhaps will but smile at the Decree of an ancient Councel of the Church assembled at Gangra That anathematizes those who shall be so rude and audacious to censure or control the Apparrel of great and superiovr Persons Qui cum Reverentia Birrhis usi fuerint and the ground of that Curse saith Balsamon was this Because such are cloathed not propter molliciem sed propter professionem not from any Luxury but distinction Be not jealous Reader that I have forgotten my design or am become Prides Advocate 'T is every where seen that Platoe's rich Gown covers a more humble mind than the Cynicks Frieze Pride is a disease that breads in course and branney Spirits the very Scrapings of dame Natures trough and blisters ever from the corruptest blood 'T is Humility is the Glory of the Great and the Noble their only unalterable Dress that is ever in fashion amongst them The very Rubies they wear would wax pale at the draught of that Venom and Pearls themselves would blush for shame at the imputation of such a Foppery What need such to swell that are so Great already or to aspire to a sublime Height when they are born on the Hills of Excellency and break into life like that Emperour Diadumenus with a Diademe of Honour on their forheads and whom the first light salutes into the World as happy as Great Thus while Right Honourable I apologize for you and pay but the Tribute your Vertue and State calls for from every humble Pen. I have plotted all along to merit from you the Innocent Liberty of Insinuating in the most prostrate and submissive posture of Address the following considerations for good Noble minds to contemplate First That as you are fixed by the Generous and only distinguishing bounty of God your great Maker ours in the highest Orbe and to a more abstructed Degree of Happiness and State in the World than were others Licenced to bear a greater Sway and Port and to appear with all your pompous Traines drawing that eyes of the Universe after you by your Gallantry and splendour of Life So that your Honours would ever Remember to give all this but its right Name and the same which the Holy Ghost gives it Acts 25. 23. Where an whole Bench of Great Ones and one of them a King with all their Attendants and Glory appear'd to dazle the eyes of a poor Prisoner at the Bar who yet by the Spirit and Power of the God that spake by him made the best of them tremble as he sate calls all that Lustre But a meer Phantacy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A very Gleam and Vain Shew that appeared and vanished together and not so much as the Shaddow of the truer Glory which has weight indeed and is massie exceedingly so and eternal too And this the Royal Prophet well experienced when he left behind him that very proper Lesson for Persons of your Noble Order to meditate on Man in his best estate is altogether Vanity Nor is it unworthy your profoundest thoughts to consider what little Courtship the God of Glory has used towards some very eminent Personages of the Earth by the contemptible characters he has stamped upon them in the sacred Records The Great Antiochus who for his Magnificence was stiled Epiphanes or the Illustrious passes off the stage with the Ignominious impress of a Vile Person Dan. 11. 21. such it seems in Heavens Accounts notwithstanding his worldly Greatness Herod gains no more from our Saviour than the sutable Title of a Fox who so greedily sucked the Blood of the Innocent Baptist Those who push the Innocent with the hornes of oppression are very congenially termed the Bulls of Bashan Jehoiakim Jer. 22. 28. an ill Prince is shav'd into the despicable cut of Coniah as one unworthy to fill up the leaves of his sacred Book with the full sylables of his Name But above all how remarkable is the crowding of at least forty Dukes of the progeny of Esau whom God hated into one short Chapter justling them together three or four into one line seven or eight of them into two Duke Teman Duke Omar Duke Zepho Duke Kenaz c. their whole story lost in the ayre of an empty Title their persons and hopes entred together in the dark vault of eternal Oblivion While yet above a dozen chapters are proved in the deciphering out the Excellencies of but one younger Son of a Plain man that dwelt in Tents and give us the exact memories of his whole life and actions to the Grave Gen. chap. 37. to 50. And the Almighty God make your Honours as Pious and Good as that famous Joseph and your Noble Consorts infinitely more Virtuous than his impure and unkind mistriss Who as if his unnatural Brethren had not shewn cruelty enough to him by stripping him of one Coat and sending him into Exile She must conspire too and tear from him another dismissing him all cold into Prison clad onely in the vest of divine Favour and his own innocency yet anon breaking out into a resplendency outshining the Nobles of the whole Court when we find him wrapt in the Royal Ornaments and the finest Linnen of Egypt Nor had I mentioned this Had it not been the perfect Mirror of your Honours own real story Who must as certainly be devested from all your rich and gay coloured coats that creates so great an Envy in the eyes of the world though the particular Cognizances of your great Fathers kindness and your desolate Bodies sent Captives into the dungeon of death If therefore now ye shall carefully buckle on the secure Coat-Armour of faith and purity to fence your glorious souls from the repeated attempts this Egyptian strumpet the World shall make upon your Chastities Then shall ye undoubtedly most triumphantly appear at the Resurrection of the Just Cloathed with the bright rayes of your Saviours Righteousness and Shining as the Sun for ever and ever But if which God forbid you shall suffer your Noble and more Sublimated Spirits to melt away in the Riots and Luxury of a meritorious bewitching World and this Circe to charm you into the killing slumbers of security and death should you pass into an ungrateful and slighting neglect of him whose goodness hath so deeply oblig'd you by the many rich demonstrations of his bounty and kindness then though you should here exalt your selves as the Eagle and Build your Nests among the Stars yet thence will God surely cast you down into Contempt and lay your Honour in the dust Though the whole Creation here be rifled for the furniture of your Tables though the Indian Rocks resign up their sparkling

The attendance of his Ministers and their Apparrel was so glorious that it ravish't away her Spirit passa est Ecstasin saith Junius there was no more spirit in her She fell into a trance to view so a glittering a Court where the great King as the Sun the chief Ministers as the Planets of the first magnitude and each inferiour Officer as the minor Stars the very least had his shine but altogether were as our Saviour expresseth it Solomon in all his Glory Surrounded with all his Nobles and Councellors and Attendants each one in his Sphere contributing to the glory of so great a Constellation Indeed God dress'd up Solom●● in the brightest Robes of Royalty with ful● design to make him the most illustrious Prince that he might undress him again and make him the most experienc'd Pr●●cher that all Princes to the worlds en● might have the Word of a King to asure them how much vanity attends the Courts of the most Magnificent Potentates and how little satisfaction or Soul-Acquiescence himself had found in all the Grandieurs of State How charitably therefore may we judg of Those whom rather Reason and Necessity of State than any natural Inclination or Promise to the folly does exact from them a more gay and splendid Appearance and Dress Courteours being not alwayes Proud though sometimes Poor the more is the Pitty and more ignorantly envied than cheerfully trusted by the jealous Citizen who yet can love it well enough when himself has the profit and they come to Buy But infinitely more where he hath it indeed and they come to pay These therefore I shall leave to be as fine as they can and do heartily wish that of any part of their Suits the Pockets may be the most richly faced lest the Taylor trust them so long that they are put to the trouble of begging a Knighthood for him in satisfaction of a full discharge Only I begg leave to be their Remembrancer of some excellent Advice which once a great Prelate of the Church delivored to the Houshold of King James in the Chappel of Theobalds and sure they cannot take it ill from one who died an Archbishop though I confess no very good Subject As it is fitting you should be adorned for the Attendance of your Earthly so there are some Ornaments to be thought upon for the Service of your Heavenly Master Oh happy We of all other Creatures if we were near so mindful of the one as we are too solicitous of the other But hearken ye that forget God this is no proportion at all to allow half a day for the tricking of the Body and grudge the poor half hour for the preparing of the Soul Those that glitter in soft Clothing may be respected in Kings Houses but without Faith Repentance and true Devotion they are of no reckning in Gods House And such Correspondence there is between God the King that I could never yet read of any who neglected the Service of their Master in Heaven did ever true service to their Master on Earth these two Worships therefore conjoyned in the Tables of the Law let them not be disjoyned in the Tables of our hearts And so shall God who has made us now Attendants on Princes here below make us hereafter Fellows and Companions with the Angels above Dr. Williams To which I Heartily add my Amen And do beseech the Present Gentlemen at Court to meditate on so good an Instruction To the Nobility and Gentry VVIth no less Observance and Respect do these Papers address themselves to you the Truly Honourable and Vertuous Nobles and to you the Worshipful Gentry of the Kingdom Whose high Birth and Blood whose Large Demesnes and Revenues do justly give you as a Precedency by the Ordinance of Heaven above others in Degrees of Honour and Worship so certainly a Prerogative and Priviledge of expressing them by all the lawful modest and allowable Demonstrations to the World The very Laws of Honour obliging you to a strict observance not of the Rules only but very Complements of your Order which can never be performed like those of the Church without some external Ceremonies to set off the Grace and Decency of them The Gloryes of Birth and State like those of the Sun being shrowded within the cloud of popular Ignorance or more private Cognizance till the several Beames of their Light and Vertue baffle the Shadow and triumphantly break out into universal Joy and Observation but then do never fail to attract on themselves the most prostrtae Adoration and Reverence See this in Religion The very Lustre of the Divine Image in the Soul is Grace in the Womb only very solitary and indiscernable by any prying eye while dweling in the dark Cell of the heart is Faith to self only and before God as Rom. 14. 22. but the Darting out of those beams from that Covert the piercings of the Divine Nature through the dark Lanthorn of Flesh and emitting its Shine into the Life by great and excellent Actions this makes it Grace unto others and brings a Glory to God Nor is it enongh for a Christian to light his Candle and keep it under a Bushel but his Light must so shine that all in the House may see it and the great Author of it not lose his praise Mat. 5. 15 16. And what are Good works but the Garments of Holiness which the true Christian clothes himself with every day according to his Ability and which makes him beautiful to God and man Yet like the Lustre on Moses face though they render him Lovely and Amiable in the eyes of others still they keep him humble in his own and he is a Mirrour to all but himself Since Nature hath lost her eyes and differs in Judgment from her Maker for He seeth not as man seeth 1 Sam. 16. 7. Nor yet has attained the light of a rectified Reason or Knowledge to pry into the value of interiour Objects and Worth It will ever be gazing after what it can reach to without and doting on the Surface of superficial Vanity and Lyes Prov. 30. 8. Thus Pride of Life as the first-born Leah hath gotten the advantage of the Beauty of Holiness the incomparable Rachel and starts before her into Jacobs Bed while the Kings Daughter whose Glory is within is thrust out to an enforced patience and made to wait for Admirers who as hardly are perswaded to fall in Love with what they cannot perceive so Adorable and Precious and like Joseph tho they will not expose her to dishonour yet resolve to shift her off with a Complement till an Angel from Heaven clear up her excellency and very happyly make up the Match Thus may you you find the Brutish herd Crying up a glistering peece of dust to be God while they vote the True One in a plain Coat to the Cross It is your Visible Glory Oh ye Great and Honourable of the Earth that the Idolatrous World with the Persians so

their being lock'd up in darkness while there is so little profit in their Blood to the Living and the happiness is only to themselves in being delivered from plagues more infectious than those that destroyed them And to this day the Sword of God reaching to the very soul The Flames of his Wrath burning in the spirits of men ready to devour each other and enkindle the whole Kingdom into Flame while every one strives under the pretences of Religion which in truth is almost abandoned by all the Marrow and Fatness of it quite suck'd away while we are passionately quarrelling for the bone And while those that profess say Here is Christ and others say Nay but He is there The miserable prophane conclude he is no where The very Life is lost in the contentions for the Form and the Substance is so farr from being embraced that the very Shadows are hated and persecuted by most So little care taken for making up our Divisions that new Methods are dayly contrived to widen them And while we are weakning one another the Enemy fortifyes himself against us all Oh beloved Countrey-men What shall we do to be saved Is there no Balm in Gilead Nor means to retrieve us shall we not at least go hand in hand and reconcile to prayers and tears shall we not weep together for deliverance without upbraiding each others drops as Hypocriticall Is not the Blessing a Common Salvation which we all so passionately long for do we hate each other to that Degree that some are contented to be miserable still that others may not be happy Is this the spirit of Love This the temper of the Gospel-Charity This the way to atone an incensed God who because our Spirits are burning in hatred is still enkindling the Flames of his Vengeance whose ashes because we will not lay them on our Heads God ere they are quenched lays them on our Habitations again and blows them up into fresh Fires and upon our breasts too to encrease the Coals there Nay so far are we from thinking on Sackcloaths or treaties with God for forbearance so far from bending the stiffknee and lifting up the humble hand That there is a danger in the very motion to it the very Exhortation to Repentance is maliciously construed into Sedition as a piece of Non-Conformity to the happiness and prosperity of the Age. As if Conversion to God were not the ready way to Establishment of peace Come Reader before we breath in the Ayre and after we shall have ceas'd breathing here Will that maxime hold unanswerable in our Bibles There is no peace saith my God to the wicked God saith so and he will make us all to know so Hath He said it and will He not bring it to pass Let us lay down our pride our insolence our contempts of Judgments our abuse of names our cursed animosities our dreadful heart-burnings and bring our selves into a posture fit for Humiliation and return to God then may there be some hope indeed but without this God hath said it There is no peace And a Mercy of Mercies it is that at such a time as this the Tongues of our Prophets do not cleave to the roof of their Mouths nor are Dumb. And He assure you some of them have cried aloud Ezech. and spared not yea have lift up their voice like a Trumpet and have not fear'd very roundly to shew the provocations of the Age And the words that They have spoken shall Judg us at the last day Instead of many I will instance but in two and those indeed instar omnium the very worthy and undaunted witnesses of God against all the cursed debaucheries that with such brazen fac'd impudence do spread and reign every where in the midst of us And first Arise thou Chariots of Israel the Horsemen thereof the Valiant and Magnanimous Bishop of Hereford who in thy discourse to the Lords assembled in Parliament February 4. 7 3 4 from that above mentioned Text There is no peace to the Wicked hast uttered these Words Pag. 17. Many complaints I heard abroad in the World but very little to the purpose not one of an hundred considers matters aright much less layes to heart the true cause of that whereof they complain But shall I tell you the true Causes of our misery We have made a League a most unfortunate evil League and we have made a War a most dangerous destructive War a League with Satan and a War with God these are the radical causes of our destruction and unless rooted up will be our confusion Not long since we lamented a Plague that destroy'd many thousands that ceased but our Sin the cause thereof that remained therefore another calamity ●oon followed Then we lamented a great and dreadful Fire which consumed our Capital City that also ceased but Sin still remained Then we lamented a dangerous War when our Enemies sayled up the River so near us that it struck a Terrour into the hearts of all they likewise are gon Our Sin still remaines So we go on lamenting one Calamity after another and labour still with might and main to redress the present grievance but the neglect the cause like men in a Feaver pain'd here and pain'd there we toss from side to side to find rest we call for this that Drink to quench our thirst but all in vain the Feaver of Lust still burns in our Bowels and till this be cured no ease no rest to be had Again Page 20. The lusts of the Flesh are most horribly exorbitant in both the parts of it Voluptuousness of Diet and Lasciviousness of body The business of Diet which formerly was the care and talk of Women to their Cooks and Caterers is now become the study and discourse of men even Gentry and Nobles whose Brains is sunck into their Guts and so are become very skillful in the Belly-science for they have invented Rarities never heard of in former Ages and are so early ripe in this Art that before they have studied Philosophy or Gramar they are Masters in the Art of Cookery Nor are they less skilful in Drinks than Meats and 't is a thing adds much to their Reputation that there is not a sort of Wine growing in any part of France Germany Spain Italy but they have the particular name thereof more ready than their Creed or Pater-noster and will entertain you with a score at least in one Meal And Page 22. Thus having by the lust of Voluptuousness by curious and excessive Eating and Drinking procured the lust of Lasciviousness They give themselves up to work all manner of uncleanness with Greediness Fornication and Adultery not only frequently acted in private but publickly owned Men in the dark formerly sculk't into lewd houses and there had their revellings but now men Married men in the light bring into their own houses most lewd Strumpets feast and sport with them in the face of the Sun mean while their

well entitle me to the Good Repast I I have found among you and so I bid you adieu I am afraid it will endanger most of the Societies in the City to provide for the mnltitudes of his Trade and Finery that stand in as great need of a Dinner as he who are Breathing Vivifications of that notorious Truth By means of an Whorish Woman a Man is brought to a piece of Bread Among the Heresies August de Heres that arose very early in the Church there started out a Sect called the Paterniani possibly the Spawn of the filthy Gnosticks whose opinion was that the upper Parts of a mans Body were made indeed by God but the lower Parts from the Girdle they held was made by the Devil and very fond they grew of their fancy which they thought gave them a Liberty to do with the Devils part what they pleas'd so long as they reserv'd the rest unto God Who must excuse them if they imploy that wherein he had no title unto the service of the Devil and lust 'T is to be fear'd this Heresie insensibly has crept in among us and gotten too generall an hold and it were well if it had not improv'd and encroach'd beyond it's first limits but sure it seemes to battle here in it's own Ordure and sport it self as in it's own Element While it presumes to invade the poor remains it has left unto God and hardly left him an Eye or a Lip for his service The Tongue the Trumpet of his Honour is now as St. James said set on fire of Hell and and belching out the Infernal Vapours with Aetna as furiously as the Tayle is reaking with the smoak and steames of impurity and filth And which is most pitteous to behold our very Ladies so far obeying the Apostle yield the more abundant Honour to the less Honourable parts which these Hereticks say were made by the Devil while they are grown so Universally careless of Gods that like a solitary Mansion they desert it all Naked and Unfurnish'd and leave it all Bare to shift for it's self as it can and declare to all mankind how ready they are to surrender possession to the Devil 'T is pitty Ladies should be Hereticks too out their Naked Necks and Shoulders are undeniable Evidences of their Apostacy and Guilt And acquaint us how little they fear'd that dreadful Judgment denounc'd against the wanton Dames of Syon for the pride of their stretched-out Necks and tinckling Feet that they hold it a Judgment if that Judgment be not frequently repeated upon them while they are half underess'd already to it and defie the worst that God or man can do against them Of Naked Necks and Shoulders AN Impudenee abominated by the very Light of Nature No sooner sayes Tertullian did our first Parents perceive themselves Naked but they sought out for some Covering though a poor one And the very Arabian Women saith he will rise up in Judgment against this Generation Quod non caput modo sed faciem quoque ita totam tegunt ut uno oculo liberato corteatas sunt dimidia frui Luce quam totam faciem prostituere Who rather than they will prostitute the honour of their Countenances to publick danger much less their Necks and Shoulders do furle them in their Mantles all over and allow but a peeping-hole for one Eye to guide them in the way The Roman Sulpicius was so far affronted to meet his wife in publick without her Vail that he devorced her for that Impudence so impossible did he think such a looseness could consist with Vertue and she that departed from the Grace of her Modesty must take leave of the Honour of his Bed too How have the the Primitive Fathers Thundred against this insufferable shamelesness of bare Bodies as if wholly irreconcileable to the reverence and severity of the Christian Religion Where is the Dispensation we have gotten for it in these days Can our Ladies shew any Lay down thy Pen Tertullian and prescribe no more Rules for Womens behaviour and bashfulness Here are a sort of things called Christians of a new Form that scorn thy Arguments to the unfashionable practice and exercise of Vertue tho thou hast told them plain enough That the nakedness of their Breasts is Adultery and that it 's possible such as go so may be honest but very few that see them believe it And thou Father Jerome who once most justly didst upbraid the loose Jovinian for entertaining an Army of these new fashioned Amazons Habet in castro Amazonas viros ad Labadinem provocates Mamma exerta brachio Rado Who with their naked Breasts strutting out and Armes tuck'd up to the very shoulders did in that posture seem rather to challenge Combatants into the Fields of Venus than make any shew of fighting vnder the Banner of a Crucified Saviour Let that passion cease now holy Father for he has gotten all the World into his Camp Who will make thee know Christianity can connive at those Libertinisms indulge against those Severities thy froward Spirit did ever abound with And why hast thou rail'd against bare Necks As the flames that comsumed Youth the Incentives of Lust and the never failing Ensignes of an Impudent Mind What a storm wilt thou raise over thy sacred Head and provoke thy excellent Volumes to be doom'd to the fire their holy Leaves to be sacrificed to the humour of Womens Pride And what was thy Project incomparable Chrysostome to enter those Lists with the Ladies of thine Antioch Who dared to sit down under the droppings of thy slowing Lips and the showres of thine Eloquence with their naked Bodies as if they design'd to debauch the Purity of thy holy Affections and Soul Oh what a Storm did thy fiery Zeal raise to set them in a trembling What do ye come hither into the House of God as to a Play Do you come into the Sanctuary of your Maker to make your Conquests here And here to satisfy your Sensuality Do you approach hither to attaque even God too What does all this People this soft and wanton delicacy this affected nakedness become the estate and condition of such who could have mercy for their Sins Are these the Dispensations and Postures of Mourners and Penitents Surely the bloud of their Hearts started up into their Face and Necks and all purpled their very shoulders when the astonishing Thunder fell upon them But yet why Golden Father wast thou so un-Courtly and down-right to tell those Naked Dames that the very Devil sate upon their very Shoulders and Pearch'd himself upon the little Mounts of their exposed Breasts hopping as a Bird from one to tother and greatly pleasing himself with the Rayes they had set out for him Sure thine ayme was to affright them out of their sins But alas all this will not do tho they might well be scar'd out of their Wits with the very thought of having a Devil in their Bosomes It were endless

Nations England hath scraped together and in a Bravery put it on the Estimation whereof is little a light wavering mind matched with a vain proud Heart desireth a light vain strange proud and monstrous Apparrel to cover and clad it but Sobriety is content with that which is seemly And in his Sermon before the Parliament recommending this one evil to their prudent considerations as fit to be redress'd being so dangerous and very grievous As our principal care must be for the higher matters Sincerity and Vnity in Religion so may we not pass over other matters which need redress Gorgeous Apparel and sumptuous Diet may seem small things but they are the causes of no small evil They eat up England and are therefore to be repressed by strait Laws And elsewhere in a Sermon before the Queen he expresseth himself pathetically and it is worth your noting Ezechiel teacheth that the Sins of Sodom that Sink of Sin were Idleness fullness of Bread Pride and unmercifulness to the poor Are not these the Sins of this Land of this City of this Court at this day Half England liveth idly or worse occupied we be fed to the full and who is not puffed up with Pride And who relieveth his Neighbours wants No man is contented with his own Estate but every one striveth to climb higher and to sit aloft there is want of the true fear of God in all sorts and Estates and Ages yet we please our selves and walk on as if God either saw not our Sin or else would not punish it Surely our Sins will not suffer his Plagues to stay long from us What Plagues I dare not presume to Prophesie for God hath kept that secret to himself But I stand in fear that we are the men to whom Christ saith The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you That we are they whose Sins will bring the Scepter of this Kingdom into the hands of an Hypocrite Know Reader that this was when the Papists expected so highly the Return of their Religion at the Death of Queen Elizabeth And that made the heart of this good man so bleed in that consideration he goeth on If God in his Justice do this ●o worth us most wretched men The Loss of the Gospel is the Loss of our Souls and the Loss of our Soveraign the Loss of our Lives Truly when I fall into consideration of the wickedness of this world that all sorts of men fall to sinning with greediness that in all conditions Iniquity doth abound and Charity wax cold that the Zeal of God is utterly dried up in the Hearts of Men that God is served for Fashion sake and not in truth what should I think but that God hath gathered his Lap full of Plagues and is ready to pour them down upon us And thus you see how God hath stirred up his Faithful Prophets to drop down their testimony against this poor Sinful Land for the Pride and prophaness thereof in that Age. Let us come down to King James his time and see whether the matter be any whit amended and one might justly expect it because they lay under the obligations of a new mercy in disappointing the expectations of the Enemies of the Gospel by the coming in of a Protestant Prince who so zealously by his Learned Pen contended for the Truth But we shall find this Vanity still triumphing in its full vaunt and Glory and I shall not disparage so holy a Witness as Bishop Sands by subjoyning a mean or unworthy Person to him but will call forth the sweet spirited and excellent Bishop Hall to give us his Evidence against the Pride of that Age wherein he Lived and besides others which I omit I will shew to what height the Women were grown at that time from a Sermon of his Preached at the Spittle O God to what a world of Vanity hast thou served us to I am ashamed to think that the Gospel of Christ should be disguised with such disguised Clients are they Christians or Anticks in some Carnaval or Childrens Puppets that are thus dressed Pardon I beseech you Men Brethren and Fathers this my just and holy impatience VVho can without indignation look upon the prodegies which this mis-imagination produces in that other Sex to the shame of their Husbands and scorn of Religion and damnation of their own Souls Imagine one of our Forefathers were alive again and should see one of those his Gay Daughters walk in Cheap-side before him what do you think he would think it were Here is nothing to be seen but a Vardingale a yellow Ruff and a Perriwigg with perhaps some Feathers waving in the top three things for which he could not tell how to find a Name Sure he could not but stand amazed to think what new Creature the times had yeilded since he lived and then if he should run before her to see if by the foresight he might guess what it were when his eyes should meet with a powdred Frizzle a painted Hide shadowed with a Fan not more painted Breasts displayed and a loose Lock swing wantonly over her Shoulders betwixt a painted Cloth and Skin how would he more bless himself to think what mixture in Nature could be guilty of such a Monster Is this the Flesh and Blood thinks he is this the hair Is this the shape of a VVoman Or hath Nature repented of her work since my days and begun a new Frame It is no marvel if their Forefathers could not know them God himself that made them will never acknowledg that he never made the Hair that he never made theirs the Body that is ashamed of the Maker the Soul that thus disguises the Body Let me say therefore to these Dames as Bennet said to Totilaes Servant Lay down that you wear it is none of your own All the world knows that no man will rough-cast a Marble VVall but mud or unpolished Rags that false art instead of mending Nature mars it But if our perswasions cannot prevail hear this ye Garish Popingays of our time if you will not be ashamed to Cloath your selves in this shameless Fashion see how the Spirit of this Meek Moses raiseth into indignation against this madness that all the world knew to be so mild and tender of it self God shall Cloath you with shame and confusion hear this ye plaister-faced Jezebels God will one day wash them off with Fire and Brimstone See Reader what a Faithful Witness this holy and excellent man was for God against the Pride and Folly of that day To this famous Witness for God Let us adjoin another of his own Order as Zealous and Faithful as himself the worthy Bishop King who bears his Testimony for God against the Rage of this folly that Ruffled so proudly Throw away your Robes and costly Cap●●isons You Kings and Queens of the Earth You that are not so by the Ordinance of God but by your own Usurpation that take such honour upon you not