Modesty teaches us not to expose those parts to view which no necessity, no good end or use will justify: Humility teaches us to avoid curiosity in decking a vile Body, which ere long must be a feast for Worms: Good husbandry will teach us not to lay out on the Back, what should feed the Bellies of a poor Family. And Holiness will teach us, not to keep such a stir about the Outward, when the Inward Man is Naked. Charity will teach us, not to expend superfluously on thy own Carcass, when so many of thy Fathers Children want necessary Food and Raiment. And Godly wisdom will teach us, not to trifle out those precious Minutes between the Comb, and the Glass, (inter pectinum & speculum) between Curling and Painting, which should be laid out on, and for Eternity.
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To be accounted honourable by him [God], and made beautiful by him, is true Honour, real Beauty. In his Judgment stands our absolution, or condemnation; in his Sentence, our life, or death; to him, and by him we stand or fall.
—Samuel Annesley
