* 1.1I Do not (indeed) deny, but that in many cases, as lamenesse, crookednesse, blindnesse, baldnesse, want of teeth, and dwarfishnesse, the defects or unwelcome deformities, incident to our bodies, may be artificially repaired or covered, to the best advantages of our motions, and civil conversations: Where∣in the practise of very grave and godly Christians, no lesse than the approbation (or connivence at least) of the best Ministers, do confirme me; And truely it were as un∣charitable to deny these innocent and ingenu∣ous reliefes to them, as to deny an almes to a poor man, or crutches to one that is lame.
A discourse of auxiliary beauty. Or artificiall hansomenesse. In point of conscience between two ladies.
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- A discourse of auxiliary beauty. Or artificiall hansomenesse. In point of conscience between two ladies.
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- Gauden, John, 1605-1662.
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- [London] :: Printed for R: Royston, at the Angel in Ivie-Lane,
- 1656.
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- Beauty, Personal -- Early works to 1800.
- Cosmetics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Early works to 1800.
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But as to the helping of the colour or com∣plexion of the face in the least degree, as I do not see it any way necessary or convenient upon a virtuous account, so nor can I think it tolerable for any modest and gracious women, who professe the Gospell of Jesus Christ; which your LaP knowes is a doctrine of such singular purity and modesty, that both the Apostle of the Jewes and the Gentiles (S. Peter and S. Paul) injoyne those holy * 1.2 severities, even to women, as allowes them none but modest apparell, with shamefacednesse and sobriety in their looks, and gestures: Forbidding them broided, or well set haire; also gold, pearles, and costly apparell: How much more may you inferre, do they forbid all painting, patching, and powdering; which become none but proud, or light and bold women; who proclaime to the world that they are not yet redeemed from their vain con∣versation; Whereof these inventions of arti∣ficiall * 1.3 beauty seem infallible badges; as be∣ing servient and accessary to all other vanities; From all which we must needs be divinely forbidden by the force of that one Apostolicall Canon, Of abstaining from all appearance of * 1.4 evill; which may cast any blemish or re∣proach on the modesty, purity and sanctity of Christian religion; Which (as Truth) needs none but its own native beauties: But teacheth
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us to turn (by an holy and humble Chymistry of patience and contentednesse) the very de∣formities and decayes of the outward man, to the advantages and dayly renewings of the * 1.5 inward man.
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7. Object. Painting the face a badge of vanity: An appea∣rance of evill.
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1 Tim. 2. 9. 1 Pet. 3. 3.
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1 Pet. 1. 18.
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1 Thes. 5. 23.
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2 Cor. 4. 16.