II. ON THE APPAREL OF WOMEN
BOOK II.
- CHAP. I.—INTRODUCTION. MODESTY TO BE OBSERVED NOT
ONLY IN ITS ESSENCE, BUT IN ITS ACCESSORIES.
- CHAP. II.—PERFECT MODESTY WILL ABSTAIN FROM
WHATEVER TENDS TO SIN, AS WELL AS FROM SIN ITSELF. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
TRUST AND PRESUMPTION. IF SECURE OURSELVES, WE MUST NOT PUT TEMPTATION
IN THE WAY OF OTHERS. WE MUST LOVE OUR NEIGHBOUR AS OURSELF.
- CHAP. III.—GRANT THAT BEAUTY BE NOT TO BE FEARED:
STILL IT IS TO BE SHUNNED AS UNNECESSARY AND VAINGLORIOUS,
- CHAP. IV.—CONCERNING THE PLEA OF "PLEASING THE
HUSBAND,"
- CHAP. V.—SOME REFINEMENTS IN DRESS AND PERSONAL
APPEARANCE LAWFUL, SOME UNLAWFUL. PIGMENTS COME UNDER THE LATTER HEAD.
- CHAP. VI.—OF DYEING THE HAIR.
- CHAP. VII.—OF ELABORATE DRESSING OF THE HAIR IN
OTHER WAYS, AND ITS BEARING UPON SALVATION.
- CHAP.VIII.—MEN NOT EXCLUDED FROM THESE REMARKS
ON PERSONAL ADORNMENT.
- CHAP. IX.—EXCESS IN DRESS, AS WELL AS IN PERSONAL
CULTURE, TO BE SHUNNED. ARGUMENTS DRAWN FROM I COR. VII.
- CHAP. X.—TERTULLIAN REFERS AGAIN TO THE QUESTION
OF THE ORIGIN OF ALL THESE ORNAMENTS AND EMBELLISHMENTS.(18)
- CHAP. XI.—CHRISTIAN WOMEN, FURTHER, HAVE NOT THE
SAME CAUSES FOR APPEARING IN PUBLIC, AND HENCE FOR DRESSING IN FINE
ARRAY AS GENTILES. ON THE CONTRARY, THEIR APPEARANCE SHOULD ALWAYS
DISTINGUISH THEM FROM SUCH.
- CHAP. XII.—SUCH OUTWARD ADORNMENTS MERETRICIOUS,
AND THEREFORE UNSUITABLE TO MODEST WOMEN.
- CHAP.XIII.—IT IS NOT ENOUGH THAT GOD KNOW US TO
BE CHASTE: WE MUST SEEM SO BEFORE MEN. ESPECIALLY IN THESE TIMES OF
PERSECUTION WE MUST INURE OUR BODIES TO THE HARDSHIPS WHICH THEY MAY
NOT IMPROBABLY BE CALLED TO SUFFER.
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