Coram Deo
Puritan Board Junior
What are your thoughts on this passage of Scripture?
I was reading William Perkins "On the Right, Lawful, and Holy Use of Apparel", and he brought up this passage in one of his seven rules of Apparel..
he said
Interesting...... Any thoughts? or any other deductions from Zeph 1:9?
Michael
I was reading William Perkins "On the Right, Lawful, and Holy Use of Apparel", and he brought up this passage in one of his seven rules of Apparel..
he said
"Fifthly, mens’ attire is to be framed a prepared, according to the ancient and received custom of the country, wherein they are brought up and dwell.
Touching this rule, it is demanded, Whether, if a man see a fashion used in other countries, he may not take it up here, and use it?
Answer. He may not. For God hath threatened to visit all such as are clothed with strange apparel, Zeph. 1:9. ....... And if this be so, then what disorder is that, when men of one country frame themselves to the fashions and attires, both of men and women of other nations? This one sin is so common among us, that it hath branded our English people with the black mark of the vainest and most new-fangled people under heaven. If a stranger comes into our land, he keeps his ancient and customable attire, without varying or alteration. We, on the contrary, can see no fashion used, either by the French, Italian, or Spanish, but we take it up, and use it as our own."
Interesting...... Any thoughts? or any other deductions from Zeph 1:9?
Michael