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<P><HI>COMA BERENICES;</HI> Or, The HAIRY COMET; Being A Progno&s;tick OF Malignant Influences from the many bla|zing Stars wandring in our Horizon.</P>
<Q><BIBL>1 Tim. 2. 9.</BIBL><HI>&mdash;Not with broidered hair.</HI></Q>
<Q><BIBL>1 Pet 3. 3</BIBL><HI>&mdash;Not of Plaiting the hair.</HI></Q>
<Q><BIBL>In the Homily of the Church of <HI>England</HI> again&s;t Exce&s;s of Apparel.</BIBL> The proud and haughty &s;tomacks of the daugh|ters of <HI>England</HI> are &s;o maintained with divers di&s;gui&s;ed &s;orts of co&s;tly apparel; <HI>That,</HI> as <HI>Tertullian</HI> an ancient Father &s;aith, <HI>there is left no difference between an hone&s;t Matron and a common Strumpet.</HI></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Jerom <HI>to</HI> Laeta.</BIBL> <HI>Ne caput gemmis oneres, nec capillum irruffes &amp; aliquid de gehennae ignibus admi&s;ceas.</HI></Q>
<P>LONDON, Printed in the Year 1674.</P>
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<P><ADD>Again&s;t Womens Gorgeous attire about the head, &amp;c.</ADD></P>
<P><ADD>For coma <HI>Berenices,</HI> see His dictionaries of &abpro;per names.</ADD></P>
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<HEAD>SATYRA in SATYROS.</HEAD>
<L>WHo'll &s;ay &s;hag'd <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> no &s;ons begat,</L>
<L>When every man almo&s;t looks like his brat,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Jezabel,</HI> no painted Daughters nur&s;t,</L>
<L>(For <HI>Jehu's</HI> dogs or &s;word) by Heaven cur&s;t.</L>
<L>When &s;uch a breed of <HI>Ba&s;hans</HI> bulls do roar,</L>
<L>That pu&s;h at Virtue and Religion goar.</L>
<L>Of old in Temples, veild were mode&s;t faces,</L>
<L>But now for Mates they gaze with open traces:</L>
<L>The Goats of <HI>Ken&s;ington</HI> yield &s;ilver hair,</L>
<L>And in rank curles their wanton eyes do glare.</L>
<L>No &s;hame, &s;ince on them their wild Satyrs glance,</L>
<L>And cloven feet do round about them dance.</L>
<L>Hir'd <HI>Galen</HI> &s;ays, 'tis for their health to lop,</L>
<L>And &s;ends them to the Barber Surgeons &s;hop,</L>
<L>Its true, their &s;oft and watri&s;h brains they plead,</L>
<L>New &s;curveys then, and &s;alti&s;h humors dread:</L>
<L>Thus they traduce poor <HI>Galen,</HI> who to cure</L>
<L>Their <HI>French</HI> Con&s;umptions bids their heads im|mure</L>
<L>With &s;piced caps, and dangling borders charm</L>
<L>Foul &s;tenches, and to keep their doublets warm:</L>
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<L>What, go like no body? we're quite undon,</L>
<L>For then brave Hectors our cropt Amors &s;hun.</L>
<L>O hand&s;om fa&s;hion taught in <HI>Phoebus</HI> &s;chool, <NOTE PLACE="marg">a inton&s;us Apollo.</NOTE></L>
<L>Where Frantick Priests be&s;tride the <HI>Delphian</HI> &s;tooll.</L>
<L>Hence the Fanatick Omens of grim times,</L>
<L>VVhen hairy Comets blazon out our crimes:</L>
<L>Their bu&s;hy rays with powdred guilt do &s;hine,</L>
<L>But &s;hall ere long hi&s;s in the <HI>Stygian</HI> brine.</L>
<L>Their &s;erpent-towers &s;tollen from <HI>Avern</HI> lakes,</L>
<L><HI>Tyrinthius</HI> &s;tern &s;hall la&s;h with fiery &s;nakes,</L>
<L>Of all the fore&s;t, Hells black <HI>Nazarites,</HI></L>
<L>Doctors of <HI>Chaucers</HI> &s;ong, woodcocks and &s;nites.</L>
<L>How ju&s;t they look when their hair Hoods are laid,</L>
<L>And they to &s;ome unlawful bed are &s;trayd.</L>
<L>Such Shepherds &s;hear them&s;elves, and vow to hang</L>
<L>Their Fleece in <HI>Venus</HI> Temple whence they &s;prang.</L>
<L>Such <HI>Florence</HI> Prie&s;ts along our &s;treets do wave,</L>
<L>In Per'wigs marching to confe&s;s &s;om Knave,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Parthian</HI> Dames &s;ore prickt in con&s;cience now,</L>
<L>By horned bulls that graz'd their brazen brow:</L>
<L>Are the&s;e fit <HI>Jacobines</HI> for him to ble&s;s,</L>
<L>Who &s;ue to Heaven in rough <HI>E&s;au's</HI> dre&s;s.</L>
<L>I fear their Clergy they will &s;carce obtain,</L>
<L>And <HI>mi&s;erere mei</HI> chaunt in vain.</L>
<L>I leave the&s;e <HI>Balaams</HI> and their Ve&s;tal Nuns,</L>
<L>To this good <HI>Pontif,</HI> who in <HI>Vizor</HI> runs,</L>
<L>To &s;courge their whori&s;h Garbs within the Court</L>
<L>Of this &s;hort Treati&s;e, and to &s;poil their &s;port,</L>
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<L>That they may cook no more hair bak't or &s;od,</L>
<L>Le&s;t he afre&s;h &s;hould winde his &s;marting rod,</L>
<L>But learn to tend cha&s;te fires within their brea&s;t,</L>
<L>Till holy flames convey them to their re&s;t.</L>
<Q><HI>&mdash;Difficile e&s;t Satyram non &s;cribere.</HI></Q>
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<ITEM>Wigs
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<ITEM>equal in expence to a Tax or Subsidy &mdash; P. 1.</ITEM>
<ITEM>fruits of the Tree of Pride &mdash; P. 4</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Prie&s;t's Wigs buzled &amp; artificial &mdash; P. 8</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wigs. &mdash;
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<ITEM>worn
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<ITEM>1 as a defence in time of danger &mdash; P. 10</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 as a covering for national defects P. 11
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<ITEM>(not worn by Elijah) &mdash; d^o.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>3 as ornaments &mdash; d^o</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Invented by Satan &mdash; P. 12</ITEM>
<ITEM>the wearing of them
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<ITEM>a Sin &mdash; P. 17</ITEM>
<ITEM>a reproach to Providence &mdash; P. 19</ITEM>
<ITEM>Proscribed
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<ITEM>by the Heathens by the light of Nature &mdash; P. 23</ITEM>
<ITEM>by the ancient lights of the Church &mdash; P. 24
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<ITEM>by TERTULLIAN. CLEMINS. IEROM &mdash; P. 25</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Flags of Vanity &mdash; P. 25</ITEM>
<ITEM>Works of darkne&s;s &mdash; P. 26</ITEM>
<ITEM>wor&s;e than baldne&s;s &amp; &s;ackcloth &mdash; P. 28</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A Progno&s;tick of malignant Influences, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>THere are great complaints of want and grievances, both in the City and King|dom; That Trading is dead, that Tax|es are heavy, and that the <HI>Dutch</HI> War hath half undon us. But who will believe our complaints, or at lea&s;t who will pity us, whil&s;t we have money good &s;tore to be&s;tow upon &s;uperflu|ous and que&s;tionable; if not unlawful vanities? The price of one of tho&s;e Periwigs which &s;ome men wear, would pay more than what they are rated at for a years tax or &s;ub&s;idy. 'Tis true in|deed, that Athei&s;m, whoredom, and de&s;perate &s;wearing, with &s;uch like, are the great capital &s;ins under which the Kingdom groans, and for which all who have not baffled their con&s;ciences, or are bereaved of their under&s;tandings, expect an heavy reckoning ere it be long. But we may al&s;o put into the black Inventory and Catalogue our abounding pride and luxury (which were accounted &s;ins by our forefathers, but are almo&s;t become our virtues) our vein of fanta&s;tical fa&s;hi|ons and &s;trange apparel, for which the children of Nobles were &s;evere|ly <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Zeph.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 8.</NOTE> threatned.</P>
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<P>I know people generally &s;ay, they may conform to the garb of the times they live in, without de|&s;erving the imputation of pride or vanity. And it were &s;trange, if they &s;hould &s;peak otherwi&s;e. Pride is a &s;in which mo&s;t practi&s;e, but no body will own, till it be &s;haven, and its nails pared, as the Jews were di|rected <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut</HI> 21. 12.</NOTE> to deal with the captive woman before they took her to wife; but when it is &s;wadled up in &s;oft expre&s;&s;ions, when it is fit|ted with the plau&s;ible name of hand&s;omne&s;s or de|cency, then the &s;weet Babe is &s;miled upon, and dandled upon the knees of the greate&s;t Profe&s;|&s;ors, without fear or remor&s;e. The be&s;t way for us to judge of per&s;ons and things is by their fruits. If the effeminacy of the men of this generation in their hair and habits; if womens naked brea&s;ts, &s;pots, towers, curls, &amp;c. be not fruits growing upon the tree of pride, I wonder what pride is; Let us take heed, while we thus plead for our own, le&s;t we legitimate the vices of all former A|ges, wherein &s;ome invented divers and &s;trange fa|&s;hions of curling their hair; others coloured it with unguents and powders; &s;ome put upon it the filings of gold to make it &s;hine, as <HI>Verus</HI> the Emperor, &s;ome others <NOTE PLACE="marg">Iul. Capit. in Vero.</NOTE> tied up the Tre&s;&s;es of it with golden ribbands. And in the days of <HI>He|liogabulus,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Athen. Deip. Lamprid. in Heliogab.</NOTE> there were certain men who bound up their hair in a caul,
<PB N="3" REF="8"> after the manner of women, that they might curry favour with him by the imitation of his manners.</P>
<P>Pretences are never wanting, e&s;pecially to tho&s;e who live in eminent Cities, when their dealings and conver&s;e are with Per&s;ons of Quality, whom they think them&s;elves obliged to comply with in the&s;e matters for their own profit. But that is a cur&s;ed gain which is gotten by &s;tretching the con|&s;cience to a &s;inful compliance, with the corrupt humors and inclinations of the men of this world. Yet if the&s;e men would &s;peak impartially, the plea|&s;ing of others is not the only or chief cau&s; (if any cau&s;e at all) of the unju&s;tifiable exce&s;s and vanity of their habit, but rather an affectation and de&s;ire of being like the great ones of the earth, herein re&s;embling <HI>Ae&s;ops</HI> frog, who fain would have &s;welled her &s;elf to the dimen&s;ions of an Oxe, but the poor Animal failed in the enterprize.</P>
<P>The truth is, Cities of great re&s;ort and com|merce, and where Princes keep their royal Re&s;i|dence, as they grow wealthy, &s;o they grow proud and wanton, not knowing what they may eat, or what they may drink, or wherewithal they may be clothed: when they are waxed fat like <HI>Je&s;u|run,</HI> they fall a kicking, and nothing will tame them, till they are brought low by &s;ome terrible judgements. Pride like the Gout harbors chiefly among&s;t rich people, and in great opulent Cities, as appeareth from <HI>Jer.</HI> 13 9. <HI>Thus &s;aith the Lord,</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="9"> <HI>after this manner will I marr the Pride of</HI> Ju|dah, <HI>and the GREAT PRIDE of</HI> Jeru&s;alem. It is too vi&s;ible, that a great number of Citizens take not their mea&s;ures from their E&s;tates or Quality, when tho&s;e of mean Occupations vye it with great Per&s;onages in fa&s;hionablene&s;s and Gal|lantry, as if all <HI>Londons</HI> Trade&s;men were Mer|chants, and their Merchants were Prin|ces. By the Ordination of God, as <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;a.</HI> 23. 8.</NOTE> there are di&s;tinctions of callings and degrees among&s;t men, &s;o there ought to be di&s;tin|ctions of habits. A grave and learned Preacher of that City <NOTE PLACE="marg">Dr. <HI>Sibbs Ly|dia's conver&s;. p.</HI> 17.</NOTE> gave them a &s;ea&s;onable <HI>Item</HI> many years ago, <HI>That over|much delicacy in attire was a fa|tal thing, that there were many in the City and in the Countrey given to overmuch nicety and &s;um|ptuou&s;ne&s;s in this kind, and that it was a fore|runner of ruine.</HI> But we have out pa&s;&s;ed the luxury of tho&s;e times. The Tree of Pride hath blo&s;&s;omed and born other manner of fruit, when tho&s;e who&s;e education hath been in &s;hops, can give as many pounds for a Periwig, as would almo&s;t make up a &s;tock to &s;et up a poor Apprentice, or relieve many a poor Member of Chri&s;t, which langui&s;heth under great pre&s;&s;ures and wants: I hope they are well provided with an An&s;wer a|gain&s;t the day of Judgment, <HI>Luke</HI> 16. 2. <HI>When they &s;hall give an account of their Steward&s;hip,</HI>
<PB N="5" REF="9"> <HI>to him that judgeth righteou&s;ly, and accepteth not the Per&s;ons of men.</HI></P>
<P>I know it is pleaded that the&s;e things are <HI>in|different,</HI> and men think that their e&s;tates are their <HI>own.</HI> But the pretence of harmle&s;ne&s;s and indif|ferency hath almo&s;t undon us all, and opened a gap to all manner of licentiou&s;ne&s;s. If we li&s;t to follow odd &s;candalous fa&s;hions, and are taken with the capritious inventions of un&s;ober fanta&s;ti|cal per&s;ons; we hu&s;h our con&s;ciences, and &s;ilence our reprovers, with the powerful name of indif|ferency. But admit they were &s;o, is there no circum&s;pection to be u&s;ed in the Practice of in|different things? It is an ob&s;ervation grounded upon long experience, That Religion is always going down the winde, when its Profe&s;&s;ors and Votaries allow to them&s;elves a boundle&s;s and un|warrantable liberty in things which are common|ly called indifferent. A Malady which hath its beginning in the extreme or outward parts of the body, oftentimes at la&s;t invades the vitals, and proveth mortal. And though mens Propriety in their e&s;tates ought not to be denied, yet it &s;hould be remembred, that they mu&s;t and &s;hall be accountable, God always re&s;erving the &s;upreme Propriety and Dominion to him&s;elf, and there|fore he calleth it, <HI>My Flax and my Wooll,</HI> Ho&s; 2. 9.</P>
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<P>Not a few bol&s;ter up them&s;elves in their confor|mity to the vain fa&s;hions and di&s;gui&s;es of the times, becau&s;e they do no more then what is com|mon. But thinking thus to alleviate the bu&s;ine&s;s, they make it well the wor&s;e. For corruptions, the more common they are, the more they pro|voke God, and the more fatal they are to men. When all fle&s;h had corrupted their way, we know what became of the old world, <HI>Gen.</HI> 6. 12. They &s;inned together, and they went down quick toge|ther into that univer&s;al grave of waters.</P>
<P>But that which giveth a greater countenance and reputation unto the exce&s;s which we are &s;peaking of in habits and hair, is, That eminent <HI>Profe&s;&s;ors</HI> have taken them up, and licen&s;ed them as it were, at lea&s;t given them protection under the venerable names of Profe&s;&s;ion and godline&s;s. But the more is their &s;hame in the judgement of the mo&s;t di&s;cerning unbia&s;&s;ed per&s;ons, who can|not but wonder at the unbridled practices of di|vers of our modern Profe&s;&s;ors, and lament to &s;ee how much Religion is abu&s;ed in the hou&s;e of her friends. I will not deny, but that divers of them are con&s;ciencious godly per&s;ons; but I take this for none of their godline&s;s, or the proper fruits of it.</P>
<P>There is a &s;trange incongruity and unevenne&s;s in the ways of &s;ome people, which I could never yet reconcile, or well under&s;tand. They will not come at Common Prayer, becau&s;e they &s;ay
<PB N="7" REF="10"> &s;ome of it was taken out of the Ma&s;s-book: they dete&s;t a Surplice, becau&s;e it was worn by the <HI>Ro|mi&s;h</HI> Prie&s;ts in their idolatrous wor&s;hip: but as for vain, ridiculous, immode&s;t fa&s;hions and at|tires, they never boggle at them. A tender con|&s;cience indeed will make men afraid of one &s;in as well as another, or el&s;e it is not tenderne&s;s of con|&s;cience but <HI>hypocri&s;ie,</HI> as the Apo&s;tle &s;heweth, <HI>Rom.</HI> 2. 22. and an evidence of partiality in Gods Law. That mans or womans con&s;cience is of a &s;trange temperament, that will not give them leave to conform to the <HI>Church,</HI> but never trou|bles them for conforming to the <HI>World.</HI> It is a|liene from my pre&s;ent undertaking to declare for or again&s;t Conformity: (I would offend none,) but I do not like it, when there are hills and dales in mens con&s;ciences, when at &s;ome things they &s;train and other things as bad they &s;wallow down without the lea&s;t appearance of reluctancy. They which upon pretence of &s;crupulo&s;ity refrain from the publick e&s;tabli&s;hed Wor&s;hip, had need be ve|ry careful how to indulge them&s;elves in any ways of &s;en&s;uality, le&s;t that pa&s;&s;age of the Apo&s;tle be laid in their di&s;h; but tho&s;e which are otherwi&s;e minded, <HI>The&s;e be they who &s;eparate them&s;elves, &s;en&s;ual, having not the Spirit,</HI> Jude 19.</P>
<P>There is one thing more which gives no &s;mall encouragement to the vain fanta&s;tical garbs of the&s;e times, (which are one of the dotages of the world now waxing old) that the hand of the
<PB N="8" REF="11" MS="y"> Prie&s;ts, and &s;piritual Guides are chief in this Tre&s;pa&s;s. I &s;peak not this of all, for there are many of them whom the contagion of the times hath not touched, who &s;till retain that old Apo|&s;tolical gravity, which be&s;t becomes their place. In the mean time others of their brethren take to them&s;elves a greater freedom; and others no doubt take example by them, (which for the re|verence I have to them I &s;hould never publi&s;h, were it not expo&s;ed daily to the view of all men) what may not others do, when per&s;ons venerable for their Office, eminent for their Gifts, and otherwi&s;e of pious exemplary lives, &s;tanding in the room of God, and acting as Me&s;&s;engers of the Lord of Ho&s;ts, &s;hall pray and preach in pub|like A&s;&s;emblies, and perform all other duties of their &s;acred Function, with long buzled Periwigs, or Borders of Artificial hair, hanging over their bands and &s;houlders? <HI>From the beginning it was not &s;o.</HI> I dare undertake for them, <HI>Paul</HI> or <HI>Timothy, Ignatius</HI> or <HI>Polycarpus, Bradford</HI> or <HI>Hooper,</HI> would have thought them&s;elves as ill harne&s;&s;ed for their work in this Attire, as <HI>David</HI> did when he put on <HI>Sauls</HI> Armor. There is a greater degree of gravity, compo|&s;edne&s;s, mortification and &s;obriety <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3. 4.</NOTE> required of them than of others. It is a great di&s;order when the Shepherds infect the flock. The Lord was high|ly di&s;plea&s;ed, <HI>Jer.</HI> 23 15. when from the Pro|phets
<PB N="9" REF="11"> of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> the contagion of evil ex|ample &s;ent forth into all the Land.</P>
<P>Neither may others ju&s;tifie their undue Practi|ces in the&s;e things, from the example of their Guides; for they are men &s;ubject to like pa&s;&s;ions with others, too often &s;urprized with the &s;ame temptations of pride, affectation and vanity; and when they give way, they expo&s;e their Per&s;ons and Office to contempt, to the great detriment and hindrance of their labours.</P>
<P>There is a general Complaint that little good is done by preaching in the&s;e days: and I fear that Mini&s;ters in part may thank them&s;elves for it, while&s;t they immer&s;e them&s;elves in the manners and fa&s;hions of this world; whil&s;t people in their habits and conver&s;e can &s;ee &s;o little difference be|tween their Guides, and one of the <HI>vain fellows,</HI> 2 <HI>Sam</HI> 6. 20 They de&s;pi&s;e them in their hearts. Tho&s;e teachers which will keep up the reputation of their holy calling, and be &s;ucce&s;sful in win|ning &s;ouls, mu&s;t keep at a remote di&s;tance from the extravagancies and levity of the Times, as ap|peareth from the example of <HI>John</HI> the Bapti&s;t, the au&s;terity of who&s;e life, and the very plainne&s;s of who&s;e habit procured veneration to his Per&s;on, and prepared the why before him, as he did before his Lord and Ma&s;ter. One part of the Mini&s;ters work is with zeal and authority, to rebuke the mo&s;t prevailing corruptions; out their mouthes are &s;topped, and the edge of their reproofs is
<PB N="10" REF="12" MS="y"> blunted, when they are involved under the &s;ame guilt which they arraign in others. Reprovers had need be innocent (le&s;t their weapons be beaten back upon their own heads.) The Snuffers of the Tabernacle were to be of pure beaten gold. <HI>When the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticks of</HI> France <HI>inveighed again&s;t the Pomp and Luxury of the</HI> French <HI>Courtiers, the then King replied upon them with great di&s;dain and indignation,</HI> <Q REND="inline"><HI>Let the Clergy-men fir&s;t of all reform them&s;elves, there are none &s;o fanta&s;tical and vain in their Habits as they.</HI></Q> The Chancel|lor of <HI>Paris,</HI> who was an ear-witne&s;s, is the Author of this Relation. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ger&s;on.</NOTE>.</P>
<P>But lea&s;t I may &s;eem hitherto to have produced words rather then Arguments, I &s;hall lay down my Rea&s;ons again&s;t the cu&s;tom of wearing Artificial counterfeit hair by either &s;ex; hoping that per&s;ons of mode&s;ty, candor and con|&s;cience, (if at lea&s;t they &s;hall prove cogent and weighty) will render up them&s;elves Truths pri&s;o|ners, or rather its willing and thankful Pro&s;elites. And herein I &s;hall give the precedency to men, who otherwi&s;e may ju&s;tly challenge it. Upon a little &s;earch into this matter I finde that men have had recour&s;e to this Practice, chiefly in three ca&s;es.</P>
<P N="1">1. Some have u&s;ed it, the better to conceal them&s;elves in time of danger. <HI>Thus</HI> Hannibal <HI>fearing to be killed in his Winter-quarters by certain</HI> Gauls, <HI>cau&s;ed</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Polyb. Hist. l.</HI> 3.</NOTE>
<PB N="11" REF="12" MS="y"> <HI>hair of different Ages artificially compo&s;ed to be prepared for him.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Others have u&s;ed Periwigs, or Borders of counterfeit hair, to &s;upply the defect of their na|tural covering, fallen from them by rea&s;on of Age or &s;ickne&s;s; u&s;ing them for warmth, and to hide the &s;hame and uncomc|line&s;s <NOTE PLACE="marg">Cau&s;ab. in Sueton.</NOTE> of baldne&s;s, which was ever accounted a deformity, as appear|eth from the childrens mocking the Prophet up|on the &s;ight of his bald head, 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 2. 23. His Ma&s;ter <HI>Elijah</HI> had no Periwig belike to leave him, when he bequeathed to him his Mantle.</P>
<P N="3">3. A third &s;ort there is whom God and Na|ture hath &s;upplied with hair &s;ufficient for Defence and Ornament; but they for&s;ooth out of a hu|mor mu&s;t cut it off, and adorn them&s;elves with borrowed Plumes, that they may be in the Mode of the Times, or plea&s;e heir own di&s;ea&s;ed fancies, or gratifie the eyes of wanton and witle&s;s behold|ers. And yet when they have done their utmo&s;t, a Lion or a Hor&s;e have a more &s;tately Main. The&s;e I take to be the great|e&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg">Seneca.</NOTE> number: And the Rea&s;ons why I judge the Practice of &s;uch, (e&s;pecially if they be noted for a Profe&s;&s;ion of Godline&s;s) &s;candalous and unlawful, I &s;hall range in this following Order.</P>
<PB N="12" REF="13" MS="y">
<P>1. Becau&s;e the cu&s;tom of mens wearing Peri|wigs or counterfeit hair, was brought up by the wor&s;t of men, and u&s;ed by them for the vile&s;t purpo&s;es that can be well imagined Men did I &s;ay? nay, an holy Bi&s;hop and Martyr of the Primitive Church <NOTE PLACE="marg">Cypr. de Hab. Virg.</NOTE> faith, That &s;uch like Practices were the inventions of the Apo&s;tate-An|gels. Certain it is, God was not the Author of this fa&s;hion; in which Per&s;ua&s;ion I am confirm|ed from the Scriptures, 1 <HI>John</HI> 2. 16. <HI>For all that is in the world, the lu&s;t of the fle&s;h, the lu&s;t of the eyes, and the Pride of life, is not of the Father, but of the world.</HI> And if this be not a branch of the Pride of life, I wonder what is.</P>
<P>As far as I can learn, the world is obliged to the <HI>Medes</HI> for this invention of wearing &s;uppo&s;ititious, counterfeit <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Xenophon de</HI> Cyri <HI>vita.</HI> l 1.</NOTE> hair; a people given up to the lu&s;ts of uncleanne&s;s and luxury. And at the &s;ame time they u&s;ed painting of their faces, and colouring of their eye-brows, all chips of the &s;ame block, unmanly pride and va|nity. I would there were a Law enacted to make them a Pa&s;s, and &s;end them back again to the place of their Birth, as we deal with Vagrants and Beggars; &s;uch Modes and Fa&s;hions would better &s;uit with Pagans than with Chri&s;tians. The Prophet tells us, <HI>Zech.</HI> 5. 11. <HI>That wickedne&s;s is upon its own proper ba&s;e, when removed out of</HI>
<PB N="13" REF="13"> Judah, <HI>and hath a hou&s;e built for it in the Land of</HI> Shinar.</P>
<P>The next time I reade of this fa&s;hion is among&s;t the <HI>Romanes</HI> and that not until their manners were degenerated, and they grown to a prodigi|ous exce&s;s of Vice and Luxury. <HI>Paul</HI> &s;peaking of their debauched manners at that very time when this uncouth habit began to be in reque&s;t among them, &s;aith, <HI>That they were Inventors of evil things,</HI> Ro. 1 30. &amp; <HI>I</HI> have &s;omtimes thought, that this was one of the evil things intended by the A|po&s;tle. <HI>I</HI> do not finde that it was ever of vulgar u&s;e among&s;t the <HI>Romanes;</HI> and of their Empe|rors, <HI>I</HI> can finde in their Records mention of but four, which thus di&s;gui&s;ed their Heads, <HI>viz. Caligula</HI> a bloody <NOTE PLACE="marg">Sueton. in Ca|lig. Ner. &amp; O|thone.</NOTE> Mon&s;ter, <HI>Nero</HI> the wor&s;t man that ever was born of a woman, <HI>Otho</HI> a lover of &s;trange fle&s;h, and <HI>Antoninus Ba&s;&s;ianus,</HI> an <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Herodiani</HI> l. 4.</NOTE> ince&s;tuous per&s;on and murtherer.</P>
<P>If any be inqui&s;itive, to what purpo&s;e they a&s;|&s;umed &s;uch a Garb, contrary to the gravity of the <HI>Romane</HI> people? I an&s;wer, they did it to di&s;gui&s;e them&s;elves when they went about their works of darkne&s;s: When <HI>Caligula</HI> went abroad by night to the Taverns <NOTE PLACE="marg">Suet. in Calig.</NOTE> and Stews, he ab&s;conded him&s;elf in a long garment and a Periwig, <HI>Dion Ca&s;&s;ius</HI> and <HI>Tacitus</HI> relate the &s;ame thing of <HI>Nero.</HI></P>
<PB N="14" REF="14" MS="y">
<P>Now this alone, as one would think, were e+nough to make &s;ober per&s;ons di&s;gu&s;ted again&s;t this habit, <HI>That it was initiated in Stews, and fullied upon the Heads of &s;uch Monsters.</HI> We are at a &s;ad pa&s;s, when the vanity and vitious Pra|ctices of the wor&s;t of Heathens, are naturalized and in daily u&s;e among&s;t Chri&s;tians; Nay, when their botches are become no &s;mall part of our Ornament and Bravery. It was laid to the charge of others upon the like occa&s;ion, <HI>That they were mingled among&s;t the Heathen, and lear|ned their works.</HI></P>
<P>2. Another rea&s;on why I cannot approve our modern cu&s;tom of mens wearing of Artificial hair, extended to &s;uch a length, prepared with &s;o much Art and curio&s;ity, is becau&s;e it is repug|nant to that &s;ober, humble, mortified temper, which is required of Chri&s;tians: Methinks men of &s;obriety, wi&s;dom, con&s;cience and gravity &s;hould di&s;dain to wear tho&s;e fooleries, where|with Pagans were wont to deck the Statues of their Idols, as <HI>Demp&s;ter, Baxhor|nius,</HI> and others relate; and &s;hould <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Baxhorn. in Sueton.</HI> <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> <HI>&amp;c. Plato</HI></NOTE> be a&s;hamed to behold them&s;elves in the &s;ame dre&s;s with <HI>Mercury</HI> and <HI>Priapus.</HI> The Head is the noble&s;t and mo&s;t honourable part of Mans body, having a De&s;potical power over the Mem|bers; there is the Tower and Ar&s;enal of Rea&s;on, the mo&s;t noble Faculty of Invention, the wonder|ful
<PB N="15" REF="14" MS="y"> Repo&s;itory of Memory, the two Luminaries of the eyes, ordained to look heavenward, and from which there is the effulgency of Maje&s;ty and comeline&s;s, which things &s;hould be a &s;trong inducement to men, not to di&s;honour their Heads by ridiculous un&s;eemly coverings. Be&s;ides the remembrance of thorns worn by our Redeemer for our &s;ake, &s;hould keep us for ever from crowning our heads with vanity and lux|ury.</P>
<P>Chri&s;tians are the di&s;ciples and followers of a crucified Lord, who affected none of the worlds pomp and gaieties; they are or &s;hould be cruci|fied to the world, which though it be an invi&s;ible work, and tran&s;acted in the inner chambers of the &s;oul, yet there mu&s;t be outward expre&s;&s;ions of it in our conver&s;ations, and our very habits. In all things they &s;hould be &s;ingular Patterns of Moderation. But now it is hard to di&s;tingui&s;h &s;om of our greate&s;t Profe&s;&s;ors from the mo&s;t temporizing Gallants, who make their backs their God, as Gluttons do their bellies, unle&s;s they &s;hould wear a Ticket pinned upon their back, or we had &s;ome <HI>Nomen-clator</HI> pointed out to us.</P>
<P>If any object, what you condemn, others both learned and pious account very &s;ober; I &s;hould demand of them, What others do you mean?</P>
<PB N="16" REF="15" MS="y">
<P>They mu&s;t be &s;uch as have for&s;aken the Duct Sentiments and Teachings of Nature. For <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aith, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 14. <HI>Doth not even Nature it &s;elf teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a &s;hame unto him.</HI> And what longer hair can he mean, than that the divi&s;ions of which cover the brea&s;t and &s;houlders, like unto the wings of &s;pread-Eagles? The manners and di&s;cipline of our Nation in the days of our fore-fathers would not have born this; When one of the Lords of the Council, meeting a <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Fox vol.</HI> 2 <HI>p.</HI> 512.</NOTE> &s;erving-man in the &s;treets of <HI>Lon|don,</HI> with his hair hanging down up|on his &s;houlders, notwith&s;tanding the pretence of his Vow, committed him pri&s;oner to the <HI>Mar|&s;hal&s;ea,</HI> for no other rea&s;on but becau&s;e he thus di&s;gui&s;ed him&s;elf, and went not after the <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> fa&s;hion.</P>
<P>But if we take <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> for <HI>comis &s;uperbire,</HI> as it is u&s;ed in <HI>Ari&s;tophanes,</HI> for mens priding them|&s;elves in hair; what more pregnant evidence was ever given, then in wearing the&s;e co&s;tly elabo|rate trifles, the matter of which mu&s;t be fetched far, (it may happen from <HI>Norway, Germany,</HI> or the <HI>wilde Iri&s;h)</HI> and then it mu&s;t be prepared by the Barber or tire-woman, with great expence of Art and precious time: it mu&s;t be boiled, baked &s;titched and powdred, before it be ready for u&s;e: <HI>Tantae molis erat. &amp;c. Salma&s;ius</HI> him&s;elf (of a laxer judgment in the&s;e <NOTE PLACE="marg">Dial. de Coma.</NOTE>
<PB N="17" REF="15" MS="y"> things then mo&s;t) &s;aith, that cri&s;ping of the hair and the u&s;e of exotick powders, is an indecency again&s;t the Law of God and Nature: and that if men content not them&s;elves with that plain &s;imple hair which Nature hath given them, but mu&s;t have it of another colour, and artificially formed or &s;et, <HI>(eam rem vitio, &amp; peccato non carere pror|&s;us &s;tatuendum e&s;t)</HI> it is doubtle&s;s a &s;in.</P>
<P>I know not whom &s;uch affection doth plea&s;e, unle&s;s it be the <HI>Devil;</HI> and upon this occa&s;ion I &s;hall recite a &s;tory. A cer|tain <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Coel. Rho|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> l.</HI> 8. <HI>c.</HI> 10.</NOTE> <HI>Italian</HI> Maid was po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by the Devil, and being asked his name, he an&s;wered, <HI>Cincinnatulus,</HI> i. e. one delicately curl|ed. <HI>Haec ille appellatione ge&s;tiens inclamanti &s;ubinde res: pondebat,</HI> &s;aith my Author. If I may be allowed to make a glo&s;s upon this Relati|on, (it &s;hould be this) <HI>That the Devil is wonder|fully plea&s;ed with that Vanity which the Curio&s;o's of our Times are &s;o &s;tudious of, &s;eeing he adopted their name, and &s;hewed him&s;elf, willing to be free of their company.</HI></P>
<P>The Primitive Chri&s;tians had a great abhor|rence of our modern luxury. When one <HI>Torqua|tus</HI> frequented their religious meetings at <HI>Rome,</HI> that he might inform again&s;t them, he was pre|&s;ently &s;u&s;pected to be a fal&s;e brother, becau&s;e he &s;pruced up him&s;elf &s;o indu&s;triou&s;ly, and u&s;ed borders of <HI>Artificial hair;</HI> in&s;omuch that one of them &s;pake thus of him before <HI>Fabianus</HI> the
<PB N="18" REF="16" MS="y"> <HI>Praetor, Thinke&s;t thou this man to be one of us? Je&s;us Chri&s;t never</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Baron. An|nal. Tom.</HI> 2. <HI>p</HI> 276.</NOTE> <HI>thought &s;uch</HI> Pe&s;ts <HI>worthy to be any of his &s;ervants.</HI></P>
<P>But why do I &s;peak of Chri&s;ti|ans, when the&s;e things are decried and had in de|ri&s;ion by the Philo&s;ophers, Hi&s;torians and Poets of the Heathens! whoever readeth them, &s;hall finde <HI>Babylons</HI> children reading Lectures of &s;o|briety to the &s;ons and daughters of <HI>Zion.</HI></P>
<P>One thing is worthy of our remark, that in old time they which were curious about their hair, were &s;u&s;pected to be of vitious inclinations, as appeareth from that pa&s;&s;age of the <HI>Come|dian.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Quis tibi i&s;thuc credat Cynaede Cincinnatule&mdash;</HI>I forbear to <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Plaut. A&s;in. Act.</HI> 3. <HI>Scen.</HI> 3</NOTE> <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> it.</P>
<P>I have often wondred, that &s;o many ancient men comply with this aiery fa&s;hion. Methinks multitude of years &s;hould teach them more wi&s;dom and gravity. For hereby in a great degree they forfeit that honour which is due to the hoary head, <HI>Lev.</HI> 19. 32. and &s;eem to be a&s;hamed of that which is their glory, if they be found in the way of righteou&s;ne&s;s, <HI>Prov.</HI> 16. 31. A flaunting youthful bu&s;h of hair doth ill becom them (as if it were yet but early &s;pring with them,) when their faces are wrinkled, their joints tremble, and they have <HI>December</HI> in their bones.
<PB N="19" REF="16"> It was a witty pa&s;&s;age of <HI>Hadrian</HI> the Emperor, when he had de|nied <NOTE PLACE="marg">Spartian. in Hadr.</NOTE> a certain reque&s;t to an old grey-headed per&s;on; The &s;ame man addre&s;&s;ing him&s;elf to him again in hair of another colour, &s;aith he, <HI>I have already denied this thing to your Father.</HI></P>
<P>It would al&s;o well becom tho&s;e which are in Places of Government, if they would pre&s;erve the honour due to their places, by carefully ab|&s;teining from all things which have a &s;hew of le|vity. They are terre&s;trial Gods, and nothing but what is Maje&s;tical becomes them. If they would adorn their Heads, they need not con&s;ult the Barber or Tire-woman, the Scriptures having directed them to a more &s;uitable and noble Or|nament: <HI>I put on Righteou&s;ne&s;s and it cloathed me: my Judgement was as a Robe, and a Dia|dem,</HI> Job. 29. 14.</P>
<P>3. This novel fa&s;hion of wearing &s;trange Heads (as it is now u&s;ed) &s;eems unju&s;tifiable, be|cau&s;e it carries in it a di&s;like of Gods Workman|&s;hip, and a kinde of Practical reproach to the uni|ver&s;al Maker. As if their inward thoughts were, that if they had been advi&s;ed with about the Cre|ation, &s;ome things at lea&s;t might have been bet|ter ordered.</P>
<P>God in who&s;e Book all our members were writ|ten, and <HI>P&s;.</HI> 139. 16. by whom the very hairs of
<PB N="20" REF="17"> our heads are numbred, (be&s;ides other innume+rable in&s;tances of his Providence and bounty to mankind) hath furni&s;hed us with hair growing from our &s;elves, both as a natural Ornament, and to be a defence again&s;t overmuch heat, of hurtful impre&s;&s;ions, from both which, the brain, being a moi&s;t &s;ub&s;tance, is very capable. As man hath a more capacious brain then the re&s;t of the crea|tures, &s;o he is ob&s;erved to be <HI>Animal maxime pilo&s;um.</HI> Unto this noble <NOTE PLACE="marg">Coel. Rbo|dig.</NOTE> and u&s;eful excrement there is a dai|ly &s;upply of nouri&s;hment conveyed through the porous parts of it, according to the different temperament of mens bodies: it is of different colours and formes. <HI>Black</HI> hair is &s;aid to be the re&s;ult of a hot con&s;titution, by rea&s;on of a blacki&s;h vapour ari&s;ing from adu&s;t humors, which impre&s;&s;eth the &s;ame quality upon the hair. When it is of a pale <HI>whiti&s;h</HI> colour, it is an indi|cation that the temper is inclined to cold. When it is <HI>yellowi&s;h</HI> or <HI>red,</HI> we are taught out of <HI>Avi|cenna,</HI> that it &s;heweth a more exact con&s;titution, equally ballanced and adju&s;ted between both ex|treams. They which have dry brains, or live in very hot countreys, have u&s;ually curled hair, as it is with the inhabitants of <HI>Ethiopia,</HI> where al&s;o the Trees grow knotty and full of curls. All this is &s;poken to &s;hew, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Salma&s;. de Dial. de Coma.</NOTE> that the very colour and forme of mens hair is the Work of God,
<PB N="21" REF="17"> who&s;e wi&s;dom is not to be de&s;pi&s;ed in the lea&s;t of his works. But many among&s;t us make them|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lves wi&s;er then God. That hair which God and Nature hath provided for them doth not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lea&s;e, and therefore they will undertake to a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">end Gods workman&s;hip, and transform them|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">elves into another &s;hape; &s;omewhat like tho&s;e which hanker after &s;tollen waters, when they might drink freely out of their own Ci&s;terns, <HI>Prov.</HI> 9. 17. <HI>But &s;hall the thing formed &s;ay to him that formed it, why ha&s;t thou made me thus?</HI> Rom. 9. 20. They imagine hereby that they con&s;ult for their beauty, but things that are mo&s;t natural are mo&s;t comely; and therefore the na|tive colours of the Lilly or Tulip, <HI>Matth</HI> 6. 29. are preferred before all the acquired Artificial <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ravery of <HI>Solomon.</HI> God is an enemy to inno|vations in Nature, as well as in Religion and Wor&s;hip. He &s;aid of his own work, <HI>that they were all very good, Gen.</HI> 1. 31. but he never &s;et his &s;eal of Approbation upon mens petulant and fooli&s;h inventions. That which is as God made as it is Gods; but that which is new modelled and changed, it is <NOTE PLACE="marg">Cypr. de Hab. Virg.</NOTE> the devils work We may fear, that God will &s;end &s;trange pu|ni&s;hments for our &s;trange Attires: Not many years ago, there was in <HI>Poland,</HI> and &s;ome parts of <HI>Germany,</HI> a <NOTE PLACE="marg">Boltons four la&s;t things.</NOTE> Di&s;ea&s;e called the <HI>Plica,</HI> which
<PB N="22" REF="18" MS="y"> which cau&s;ed mens hair upon a &s;udden to curl twi&s;t into the form of &s;nakes or &s;erpents; imm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+diately after it bred vermine, &s;ending forth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> noi&s;om &s;avour, and being pricked with a Needl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> it yielded bloody drops. No Age had ev<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> greater rea&s;on to exp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ct &s;ome &s;harp and &s;ham<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ful rebuke, than this Age of unexampled luxur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and vanity.</P>
<P>4 This Epidemical fa&s;hion or di&s;ea&s;e of wear+ing Artificial hair, involves men in the guilt of o+thers &s;ins, and that divers ways, if I be not great+ly mi&s;taken.</P>
<P>Women-Factors are &s;ent abroad through a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Kingdom, to bring up Heads of Hair, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that at lu&s;ty rates, as 'tis reported, ('tis well &s;ome of their Head be worth &s;o much as is give<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> for their hairy excrement) A more &s;hameful em+ployment then that of the children of <HI>I&s;rael Exod.</HI> 5. 12. when <HI>they were &s;cattered throughou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> all the Land of</HI> Egypt <HI>to gather &s;tubble;</HI> for tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> was only their affliction, but I cannot excu&s;e thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> from &s;in.</P>
<P>Divers of the Female &s;ex, (e&s;pecially the poor+er &s;ort of Countrey-Maidens and children, barte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> away that which the Apo&s;tle calls their glory, contrary to the light <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor</HI> 11 15. <HI>Calv. in loc.</HI></NOTE> of Nature, and the Cu&s;tom of Na+tions. But if a woman have lon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering. The&s;e poor &s;heep in the Coun+trey
<PB N="23" REF="18" MS="y"> are mi&s;erably &s;horn and polled, to maintain the ignoble Traffick and Pride of the City. Nay, Mothers unnaturally denude their own children of Natures covering for filthy lucres &s;ake.</P>
<P>In every &s;treet and corner almo&s;t of the City, are expo&s;ed to &s;ail new Heads, Artificially com|po&s;ed and dre&s;&s;ed up, &s;o that it may be &s;aid of <HI>London</HI> as of <HI>Rome</HI> in times pa&s;t, that there are to be &s;een there (among&s;t other &s;trange &s;ights,) <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rhod. out of Columella.</NOTE></P>
<Q>Capitum, &amp; Capillorum Concinna|tores.</Q>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> Now if it be objected that it is the liveli|hood of hundreds of Families. I an&s;wer, this will not &s;erve the turn. Tho&s;e women which weaved hangings for the idolatrous Groves, 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 23. 7. might have made this Plea; and they which made &s;ilver &s;hrines for <HI>Diana, Acts</HI> 19. 25. actually did &s;o. <HI>Sirs,</HI> &s;aith <HI>Demetrius, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.</HI></P>
<P>It is not enough that we are bu&s;ie in &s;ome cal|ling, but our calling mu&s;t be good and lawful. <HI>Let him labour,</HI> &s;aith <HI>Paul, working with his hands the thing which is good,</HI> Eph. 4. 28. The very Hea|thens, by the light of Nature, have condemned, as fit to be exterminated out of the Com|monwealth, Arts which tend only to the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tull. Of fic. l.</HI> 1. <HI>p.</HI> 61.</NOTE> upholding of plea&s;ure and luxury, and a|mong&s;t them they reckon &s;elling of Per|fumes, Dancing, &amp;c. And doubtle&s;s &s;el|ling of Periwigs had bin in the Li&s;t, if it had not bin born out of due time.</P>
<PB N="24" REF="19" MS="y">
<P>Now if they which are employed in buying up hair go upon a &s;leevle&s;s errand, if tho&s;e Emi&s;|&s;aries can give no good account of their Time and Travels: They which are a means of &s;et|ting them on work mu&s;t expect to pay part of the reckoning with them, having made them&s;elves Partakers of others &s;ins. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 5. 22.</P>
<P>If it be a &s;hameful thing for a woman to be &s;horn, as the Apo&s;tle teacheth, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 6. If God will one day reckon with them for their unnatural and cur&s;ed cutting off their hair, how can they go unpuni&s;hed who tempt them to this indecency, and afterwards adorn them&s;elves with the ill-gotten &s;poils?</P>
<P>If Tire-womens &s;hops (which are of late &s;o greatly multiplied) &s;hould prove &s;hops of va|nity, and Nur&s;es to the pride and luxury of the Kingdom; how can they wa&s;h their hands in in|nocency, who have been the occa&s;ion of &s;etting up, and upholding that unnece&s;&s;ary and ignoble Trade.</P>
<P>It ought to be of great weight with per&s;ons fearing God, that the mo&s;t ancient lights of the Church both ancient and modern, have condemn|ed this cu&s;tom of wearing Artificial hair both in men and women, and have expre&s;&s;ed great indig|nation again&s;t it, dipping their Pens in Gall and Vinegar, while they are writing again&s;t it. He that &s;hall compare their judgement and doctrine with our Practice, will evidently finde, that we
<PB N="25" REF="19" MS="y"> are either wi&s;er then our fore-fathers, or wor&s;e. And here <HI>I</HI> might mention the Reverend Names of <HI>Tertullian, Clem. Alexandrinus, Cyprian, Ba&s;il</HI> the great, <HI>Nazianzen, Ambro&s;e, Jerom, Chry&s;o&s;tom</HI> and <HI>Epiphanius,</HI> who thunder terribly in their Wri|tings again&s;t this and the like effeminate u&s;ages. <HI>Epiphanius</HI> reckons the <HI>Ma&s;&s;aliani</HI> a|mong&s;t hereticks, becau&s;e they did <HI>ef|ferre</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Lib.</HI> 3. <HI>Tom. Haer.</HI> 80.</NOTE> <HI>meretricio more comam.</HI> Of our own I might produce as Witne&s;&s;es again&s;t our mo|dern vanity, three Reverend and pious Bi&s;hops, Bp. <HI>Babington,</HI> Bp. <HI>Hall,</HI> Bp. <HI>Reynolds;</HI> Of our learned and godly Divines, <HI>Downam, Deut,</HI> Mr. <HI>Rob. Bolton, &amp;c.</HI> I hope I &s;hall not offend, if I re|cite three pa&s;&s;ages out of them in &s;tead of an hun|dred. <HI>Tertullian</HI> calleth Periwigs, <HI>Ne&s;cio quas enormitates &s;atilium, atque textili|um</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Tert ull. de cultu Foem.</NOTE> <HI>capillame itorum,</HI> &s;aith he, If thou re|garde&s;t not the &s;in, yet let the &s;hame and defilement of them deter thee. Do not put upon a holy and Chri&s;tian head the <HI>exuviae</HI> or ca&s;tings off, it may chance of &s;ome vile ungodly per|&s;on, it may be of a Malefactor that ended his days at a <HI>Gibbet,</HI> it may be of one that is damned in hell.</P>
<P>Famous Bp. <HI>Hall</HI> telleth us his mind in the&s;e words, <HI>We &s;ee in this Ca&s;tle</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Serm. at Greys-Inn</NOTE> <HI>of the body, the Flag of Vanity hang out mo&s;t con&s;picuou&s;ly, in Feathers, Perukes, Frizzles, Powders, and &s;uch other tra&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Rob. Bolton</HI> is very zealous ac|cording <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen. Di|rect. p.</HI> 200</NOTE> to his manner; reckoning fal&s;e
<PB N="26" REF="20" MS="y"> hair among&s;t the works of darkne&s;s; calling it one of the hateful baits and enticements to lu&s;t, which (without other mon&s;trous; <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ibid. p.</HI> 195, 196.</NOTE> fa&s;hions,) are not taken to heart in any proportion to their execrablene&s;s, a|gain&s;t which Pulpits are too &s;ilent, and the times di|ge&s;t without any remor&s;e or reclamation.</P>
<P>Now when tho&s;e whom God hath made his Em|ba&s;&s;adors and our Teachers, are unanimous in decry|ing a corruption of the times, it &s;hould be an effectu|al means of our conviction, as it was to the unbelie|ver mentioned by <HI>Paul,</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 14. 24. He is convin|eed of all, he is judged of all. When God &s;peak|eth to us by the mouth of his holy Prophets, as if they had all but one <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke</HI> 1. 70. <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"></NOTE> mouth, it behoveth as many as fear God to take more diligent heed there|unto; e&s;pecially &s;ince it is made a character of one that feareth the Lord, that he obeyeth the voice of his &s;ervant.</P>
<P>But if we will not be in&s;tructed by them which &s;eek our good, it is advi&s;eable at lea&s;t to learn of <HI>our enemies.</HI> What <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Fas e&s;t &amp; abho&s;te do|ceri.</HI> Virg.</NOTE> bitter invectives are the &s;peeches and Pamphlets of <HI>Quakers</HI> &s;tuffed with again&s;t the pride and luxury of this generation: and how do they glory in their own af|fected and voluntary humility and ab&s;tinence? Me|thinks this black &s;oap of railing invectives, &s;hould help to fetch out <HI>London-dirt.</HI> We live in &s;uch a
<PB N="27" REF="20" MS="y"> juncture, that we ought rather to retrench our &s;elves in lawful things, then by any undue exorbitant pra|ctice to harden tho&s;e mi&s;erably deluded creatures to their de&s;truction, ju&s;tifie their often repeated Accu|&s;ations, or in the lea&s;t degree give them occa&s;ion to think well of them&s;elves in for&s;aking our Commu|nion.</P>
<P>6. Let it be duely and &s;adly con&s;idered in what time we live; Times in which the judgements of God have been, and are yet abroad; times of jea|lou&s;ies and fears, le&s;t &s;ome wor&s;e thing may hap|pen unto us then we have yet felt: &s;uch &s;hould be times of putting off our Ornaments, <HI>Exod.</HI> 33. 5. <HI>The Lord &s;aid unto</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>&s;ay unto the children of</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>ye are a &s;tiff-nacked people: I will come up into the mid&s;t of thee and con&s;ume thee, therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.</HI> Tho&s;e vanities which at other times are but <HI>unju&s;tifiable,</HI> at &s;uch times are <HI>unpar|donable,</HI> I&s;a. 22. 12, 13, 14. <HI>And in that day did the Lord of Ho&s;ts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldne&s;s, and to girding with &s;ackcloth. And behold joy and gladne&s;s, &s;laying of oxen, and killing of &s;heep, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">ing of wiggs. And it was re|vealed in mine eares by the Lord of Ho&s;tes; S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rely, this iniquity &s;hall not be purged from you till ye die, &s;aith the Lord God of Ho&s;ts. Bald|ne&s;s</HI> and <HI>&s;ackcloth</HI> you &s;ee would better become us, than &s;uch bu&s;hes of hair as are u&s;ually worn.
<PB N="28" REF="21" MS="y"> Jer. 7. 29. <HI>Cut off thine hair, O</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>and ca&s;t it away, and take up a lamentation on high peaces, for the Lord hath rejected and for&s;aken the generation of his wrath</HI> When <HI>P. Scipio</HI> had taken <HI>Carchedona</HI> a City in <HI>Spain,</HI> he ab|&s;teined <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Polyb. Hi&s;t. l.</HI> 10</NOTE> from his u&s;ual delights, be|cau&s;e it was a time of war, and &s;o it hath been with us. <HI>Ahab,</HI> and the King and people of <HI>Nineveh</HI> were but under a threatning, yet they &s;hewed the &s;en&s;e they had of their danger in laying a&s;ide their co&s;tly and curious attire. And &s;hall we which under&s;tand more practi&s;e le&s;s? Shall in&s;en|&s;ibility be added to our iniquities? War and the Pe&s;tilence, and the like fore judgments, are called <HI>Ton&s;ura humani generis.</HI> It <NOTE PLACE="marg">Tertul.</NOTE> is un&s;ea&s;onable for men and women wantonly to &s;have them&s;elves, to make room for idle and unnece&s;&s;ary Trappings when God hath been &s;having our Nation with the &s;harp Razor of his judgments, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 7. 20. Are we like to deprecate the wrath of God hanging over our Kingdom, when in our Religious A&s;&s;emblies, and at our Fa&s;ts, we ap|pear before him rather like &s;o many <HI>Princes,</HI> then humble <HI>Penitents,</HI> wearing <HI>&s;ilk</HI> in &s;tead of <HI>&s;ack-cloth,</HI> and having <HI>Perfumed Powders</HI> on our heads in-&s;tead of <HI>A&s;hes?</HI></P>
<P><HI>T. Ann. Milo</HI> being que&s;tioned for his life for kil|ling <HI>Clodius,</HI> fared the wor&s;e at the hands of the Judges, becau&s;e he came trimmed up, and &s;plendidly apparelled, and not in the habit of a Mourner, as the manner of tho&s;e times was. It is written of the Eagle, that &s;he pruneth up her feathers again&s;t a &s;torm; and
<PB N="29" REF="21"> <HI>Agag</HI> came delicately, when he was immediately to be hewed in pieces, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15 32. There is a ge|neral fear that a &s;torm is coming, but it &s;eems we in|tend to encounter it <HI>bravely</HI> and not to veil our Bon|nets. It is no good &s;ign, but &s;o it is, we were never more delicate, fanta&s;tical and vain in our habits and attires than now, when God is hewing us in pieces with his judgments. When God was about to vi&s;it <HI>Babylon,</HI> &s;he was commanded to lay a&s;ide her &s;tate|ly Head-tire, and &s;o &s;hould we if we did wi&s;ely di&s;|cern the &s;ignes of the times <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 47. 1, 2. <HI>Come down and &s;it in the dust, O Virgin-Daughter of</HI> Babylon.-Take <HI>the Mil&s;tones and grind meal, uncover thy locks, &amp;c.</HI> The time may come, even that year of our Vi&s;itation, when (according to the old Proverb) <HI>Heads may go to the Pot for the vanity of hair.</HI></P>
<P>And here I &s;hould make an end, but that I think my &s;elf obliged to &s;peak a few words of Advice to the other &s;ex, the Women of this Age, for whom I have &s;o much charity as to believe, that all of them have not lo&s;t their ears, as &s;ome of them have their heads.</P>
<P>I think it mu&s;t be granted, that 'tis more natural and tolerable for women to adorn their bodies, and cultivate their beauty, than for men. Their freedom from great and pub|like <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Valer. Max. l.</HI> 9. <HI>c.</HI> 1.</NOTE> Affairs, gives them more lei&s;ure, and I think that God him&s;elf hath &s;o far indulged the weakne&s;s of their &s;ex. I would not be thought to &s;peak again&s;t their lawful Orna|ments, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 16. 11. 12, 13. The Graces of the
<PB N="30" REF="22" MS="y"> Church are &s;et forth by them; <HI>Ezek.</HI> 16. 11, 12, 13. and <HI>Rebecca</HI> decked her &s;elf with jewels of &s;ilver, and jewels of gold, in times of the greate&s;t plainne&s;s and &s;implicity, <HI>Gen.</HI> 24. 53. The rea&s;on of this allow|ance I think to be, that they may be more de&s;irable in their eyes, who&s;e help and individual companions they are ordeined to be. But neverthele&s;s, they mu&s;t not divide their precious houres between the Comb and the Gla&s;s; nor give way to fooli&s;h, immode&s;t, unlicenced fa&s;hions. They <NOTE PLACE="marg">Seneca.</NOTE> mu&s;t &s;o trim up their &s;cabbards, their bo|dies, I mean, as not to neglect the hidden man of the heart. The Virgin or the Wife mu&s;t not make them forget the Chri&s;tian. Nothing mu&s;t com up|on their backs or heads, but what becometh godli|ne&s;s, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2. 10.</P>
<P>How far the Females of our times have departed from this Rule, may appear from &s;ome in&s;tances, Ci|tizens and others, as if their daughters were the daughters of <HI>Herodias,</HI> &s;end them to learn immode&s;t outlandi&s;h Dances and Friskings, wherein the whole body is abu&s;ed to wantonne&s;s, to the manife&s;t breach of the <HI>&s;eventh Commandment,</HI> which layeth a re&s;traint upon our very Ge&s;tures. They e&s;teem it an Ac|compli&s;hment, and a piece of good breeding, not con&s;idering that &s;ome women may dance more elegantly then becom|eth <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Saltan elegan|tius quam ne|ce&s;&s;e erat pro|bae</HI> Salu&s;t.</NOTE> mode&s;t per&s;ons, as was noted of <HI>Sempronia</HI> a <HI>Roman</HI> Lady. This very thing was ob&s;erved to have corrupted the young women of
<PB N="31" REF="22"> <HI>Rome,</HI> and to have di&s;po&s;ed them to leud practices.</P>
<Q><L>Motus doceri gaudet Ionicos</L>
<L>Matura virgo, &amp; fingitur Artibus <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Horat. Carm. l.</HI> 3 <HI>Ode</HI> 6.</NOTE></L>
<L>Jam nunc, &amp; ince&s;tos amores</L>
<L>De tenero meditatur ungue.</L></Q>
<P>Others plai&s;ter their faces <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Oh</HI> Dinah! Dinah! <HI>by one days frolick among&s;t the daughters of the Land thou wert utterly undon.</HI></NOTE>, and graft on new eye-brows, audaciou&s;ly chopping and changing the work|man&s;hip of their Maker, <HI>P&s;.</HI> 137. 14. that they are fearfully and wonder|fully made, their Bodies being a piece of <HI>divine Embroidery.</HI></P>
<P>There are that expo&s;e their <HI>naked brea&s;ts,</HI> as if the Time of <HI>Innocency</HI> were again re|turned, when our fir&s;t Parents were naked, and were not a&s;hamed, <HI>Gen.</HI> 2. 25 Such are commanded to put their adulteries from between their brea&s;ts, <HI>Ho&s;</HI> 2. 2. and indeed I read that <HI>Helena</HI>s <HI>Naked brea&s;ts</HI> gave the fir&s;t occa&s;ion to her <HI>Adulte|ries.</HI> As for tho&s;e women which <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Prodita &s;unt memini, &amp;c.</HI> Ovid: ep:</NOTE> have the confidence thus to expo&s;e them&s;elves in times and places of publick <HI>wor&s;hip,</HI> I &s;hall leave them to be &s;chooled by the Prophet, <HI>Jer.</HI> 7. 11. <HI>Is this Hou&s;e which is called by my Name, become a den of&mdash;in your eyes.</HI></P>
<P>Neither may it be omitted that divers of that &s;ex, who have <HI>&s;pots</HI> enough in their con&s;ciences, and too many in their lives, wear more in their faces. I &s;hall inform them the be&s;t I can how they were brought up
<PB N="32" REF="23"> A certain &s;lave at <HI>Rome</HI> received from his Ma&s;ter &s;everal brands on his face, (you may imagine it was for his goodne&s;s if you <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mart. l.</HI> 2. <HI>ep.</HI> 25. <HI>Numero&s;a li|nunt &s;tellan|tem, &amp;c.</HI></NOTE> plea&s;e) Afterward being advanced to the degree of a Senator, he u&s;ed black &s;pots to conceal his &s;cars. The <HI>Romane</HI> Ladies were lovers of Inge|nuity, and taken with new Fancies. This as far as <HI>I</HI> can learn was the Original of the <HI>Noble Order of black Patches.</HI></P>
<P>But the vanity of women doth in nothing di&s;play it &s;elf in &s;o great a multiplicity of formes as in the wearing of hair. Many in de&s;pight of God and Nature, and the expre&s;s words of Scripture, will &s;have them&s;elves, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 15. Of old a &s;o|lemn cur&s;e was denounced again&s;t &s;uch, though they did it under a pretence of Religion, be|cau&s;e their hair was given them both as <NOTE PLACE="marg">Coel. Rhod.</NOTE> an Ornament, and as a token of their &s;ubjection.</P>
<P>They who&s;e bu&s;ine&s;s is in the Kitchin, and among&s;t the Pots, mu&s;t wear artificial curls, trundled up like &s;o many &s;nakes, which would put one in minde of the de&s;cription which the Poets give of the Furies of Hell.</P>
<P>It is al&s;o reported, that Goats hair which was once u&s;ed about the Tabernacle, is made u&s;e of to adorn the Temples of &s;ome of the female &s;ex, were I one of their number I &s;hould be afraid of this new inven|tion, le&s;t it &s;hould prove an inau&s;picious Pre&s;age to what &s;quadron I &s;hould belong, when the Judge of
<PB N="33" REF="23" MS="y"> all the earth &s;hall divide the &s;heep from the Goats, <HI>Matth.</HI> 25. 33.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides all this, Women have their <HI>Shades,</HI> their <HI>Towers,</HI> their <HI>Bulls</HI> and <HI>Bulls foreheads,</HI> &s;trange names and &s;tranger things, fit only for the <HI>Kine of Ba&s;han, Amos</HI> 4. 1. per&s;ons overgrown with an ex|ce&s;s of pride, plea&s;ure, ea&s;e and petulancy.</P>
<P>But becau&s;e I would charitably believe, that not a few are drawn into the&s;e Practices, rather out of ignorance then in&s;olency; and becau&s;e their igno|rance may be thought the more pardonable, in that it is hard for women to &s;earch into the&s;e matters, mo&s;t of the pa&s;&s;ages relating to them being in an un|known tongue; I &s;hall lend them &s;ome help, with expectation of a Chri&s;tian, and favourable accept|ance, whil&s;t I &s;hall faithfully relate what is written by others. And that I may not be farther trouble|&s;om, I &s;hall only propound to tho&s;e which are in this tre&s;pa&s;s a few &s;hort and ino&s;&s;en&s;ive Queries</P>
<P><HI>Qu.</HI> 1 Would you willingly attire your Head after the &s;ame manner that <HI>Witches</HI> were wont to do when they went about their inchantments? I know you abhor the motion, why then lay a&s;ide your Wigs and Bulls, for thus they harne&s;&s;ed them&s;elves to &s;erve the <HI>Devil.</HI> And one of them, <HI>Sagana</HI> by name, betaking her &s;elf to her heels upon a &s;udden fright, lo&s;t the Jewel off her head.</P>
<Q><L><HI>Altum</HI> Saganae <HI>Caliendrum</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ex cidere&mdash;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hor. Serm. l</HI> 1. <HI>Sat.</HI> 8.</NOTE></L></Q>
<P>In <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> thus,</P>
<Q><L>Encountring with a &s;awcy puff of wind,</L>
<L>Th' Hag left her tow'ring Perewig behind.</L></Q>
<PB N="34" REF="24">
<P>Nay, <HI>Clem. Alexandrinus,</HI> and after him <HI>Polyd. Virgil</HI> and <HI>Raderus</HI> inform us, that the&s;e new and &s;trange inventions about womens hair were fir&s;t found out by <HI>Medea,</HI> a notorious and wicked Sor|cere&s;s.</P>
<P><HI>Qu.</HI> 2. Would you, if you knew it beforehand, wear that which of old time to be the dre&s;s of <HI>har|lots? Prov.</HI> 7. 10. No, you would reject it with in|dignation: why then it will co&s;t you the parting with &s;omwhat, but you may well &s;pare it. For they were wont to trade much in Arti|ficial counterfeit locks, and they were <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ov. de arte Amand l.</HI> 3</NOTE> wont to &s;end as far as from <HI>Italy</HI> to <HI>Germany</HI> to furni&s;h them&s;elves. A grave Author &s;aith, that &s;uch wares were mo&s;t in reque&s;t with the Curtizans at <HI>Rome, Crines a&s;cititii &amp; adulterini, qui</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Demp&s;t. Ant. Rom.</NOTE> <HI>Meretricibus in pretio&mdash;Me&s;&s;ali|na</HI> that &s;hamele&s;s woman, when &s;he went to the Stews to pro&s;titute <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Juven. Sat.</HI> 6.</NOTE> her &s;elf, dre&s;&s;ed up her &s;elf in a <HI>Bull,</HI> and laid forth her naked brea&s;ts;</P>
<Q>Et nigrum flavo crinem ab&s;condente galero, &amp;c.</Q>
<P><HI>Qu.</HI> 3. Would you bring your &s;elves in the &s;ame <HI>Premunire</HI> with the <HI>haughty Daughters of</HI> Zion, which are &s;o &s;harply rebuked, and threatned with burning in &s;tead of beauty, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 3. 17, 24. And to have the Crowns of their Heads &s;mitten with loth|&s;om ulcers? I know your an&s;wer. Why then be not too fond of your well-&s;et hair, or affected curls, (as &s;ome render it) which was their &s;in.
<PB N="35" REF="24"> Nay, it is &s;aid, that after our manner they decked them&s;elves with the hair <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sanct. in I&s;a.</HI> 3.</NOTE> of others, and that this cu&s;tom a|mong&s;t them was as old as <HI>Ab&s;alom.</HI> For we read, that when he polled his head, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 14. 26. he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred &s;hekels. Now, &s;ay they, it is prodigious and ridiculous to think, that the pollings of one mans head, at every years end &s;hould <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sanct. in</HI> 2 <HI>Sa.</HI> 14.</NOTE> weigh as much as the fleeces of two &s;heep. Wherefore they conclude that the&s;e words mu&s;t &s;ignifie the weight or price, at which the Rever&s;ion of <HI>Ab&s;aloms</HI> head was &s;old <HI>Puellis &s;olymitanis,</HI> to the women of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> to make them Artificial Tre&s;&s;es, or <HI>Towers of hair.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Qu.</HI> 4. Would you have a hand in pulling down the <HI>Judgments</HI> of God upon the Kingdom? I know your tender hearts cannot endure to think of it. Be|ware then for which they are inflicted; when the Lord went about to vi&s;it <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> with &s;ore judge|ments, the women are called upon as more immedi|ately concerned in the &s;in which brought them, and the bitterne&s;s of them, <HI>I&s;.</HI> 32. 9. <HI>Ri&s;e up ye women that are at ea&s;e, hear my voice, ye carele&s;s daughters, give ear unto my speech.</HI> Again <HI>v.</HI> 10. <HI>Many days and years &s;hall ye be troubled, ye carele&s;s women, for the Vintages &s;hall fail, the gathering &s;hall not com once more,</HI> v. 11. <HI>Tremble ye women that are at ea&s;e: be troubled, ye carele&s;s ones, &s;trip ye, and make ye bare, and gird &s;ackcloth vpon your loins.</HI>
<PB N="36" REF="25"> Though women are the weaker ve&s;&s;els, yet they are &s;trong enough to pull down the judgements of God upon a Nation. The pride and wantonne&s;s of the daughters of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> was a principal cau&s;e of <HI>Ju|dah</HI>s ruine, and in &s;pecial their affected fa&s;hions in their hair, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 3. 24. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 4 4 <HI>When the Lord &s;hall have wa&s;hed away the filth from the Daughters of</HI> Zion, <HI>and &s;hall have purged the blood of</HI> Jeru&s;alem <HI>from the mid&s;t thereof, by the &s;pirit of judgement and by the &s;pirit of burning.</HI> From which words we may animadvert, That what &s;ome women account their <HI>Finery,</HI> God calleth their <HI>Filth.</HI> That the Pride of women is ranked with murther, one of the mo&s;t unnatural and crying &s;ins; it &s;tands in the &s;ame Catalogue with the blood of <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI> That it is a filth to be purged away by judgments and fire. It de&s;erves to be con&s;idered, whether the flames which laid <HI>London</HI> in a&s;hes were not kindled from the&s;e &s;parks.</P>
<P>Shall <HI>England,</HI> our native Countrey, be choaked with hair (as one of the Popes is &s;aid to be) the ig|nominy of the de&s;truction being added to the &s;ad|ne&s;s and mi&s;ery of it.</P>
<P><HI>Qu.</HI> 5. Have you a minde to <HI>draw forth</HI> the im|pure <HI>lu&s;tful inclinations</HI> of others, and &s;o bear a &s;hare with them in their &s;in and puni&s;hments? Shall <HI>Adam</HI> in his Po&s;terity complain the &s;econd time, <HI>Gen.</HI> 3. 12. <HI>The woman which thou gave&s;t me, &amp;c?</HI> If you &s;ay, No. Then forbear to &s;pread Nets and &s;nares for their eyes, as if you would invite them to lu&s;t after you. It is certain, that Hair artificially
<PB N="37" REF="25" MS="y"> and vainly &s;et out, is unto vain mindes a very tempt|ing object.</P>
<Q><HI>Spectat inornatos collo pendere capillos</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ov. Met. l.</HI> 1.</NOTE> <HI>Ecquid &s;i comante ait?&mdash;</HI></Q>
<P><HI>Qu.</HI> 6. Would you be found in &s;uch a fanta&s;tical Attire at the time of your <HI>Death,</HI> or at the &s;econd <HI>Appearance</HI> of Je&s;us Chri&s;t: No, then you will all be more humble and &s;erious. And why not &s;ooner? for what you have done &s;hall be then remembred and accounted for. <HI>Tertullian</HI> wi&s;hed that at the General Re&s;urrection he <NOTE PLACE="marg">Tertul. de cultu Foem.</NOTE> might but &s;tand behind tho&s;e Women and Virgins, that went in &s;trange heads and &s;trange faces, to &s;ee if the Angels would take them up, and carry them to meet the Lord in the Air.</P>
<P><HI>Qu.</HI> 7. Would you follow the Trade of them that are mo&s;t addicted to th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e di&s;gui&s;ing fa&s;hions? Are you willing to ca&s;t in your lot among&s;t them? I dare becom &s;urety for many of you that you would not. Why then eat not of their broth, le&s;t in time to come you eat of their Beef.</P>
<P>To conclude, let men ab&s;tein from unmanly di&s;|gui&s;es and fa&s;hions. Let them &s;hew them&s;elves &s;uch by &s;omewhat el&s;e, be&s;ides the wearing of the breech|es, that is may not be &s;aid of Men of this Age, That they are but women in mens Apparel. <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. <HI>Hom, Ody&s;.</HI></P>
<P>It &s;hould be remembred, that we reade but of one man in Scripture, that made an idol of his hair, and it proved the in&s;trument of his death. <HI>Oh</HI> Ab&s;a|lom!
<PB N="38" REF="26" MS="y"> Ab&s;alom! what hath thy pride profited thee, and thy goodly locks, whereby thy life was in&s;na|red, like the hunted Stag, which hath &s;omtimes bin intangled by rea&s;on of his &s;tately-branched &s;tems? It was &s;aid of old, <HI>That the Woman was fir&s;t in the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion;</HI> let us not now change places with them If you would have your heads comely and full of grace, in &s;tead of the Barbers or Tire-wo|mans &s;hop, go to Wi&s;doms Warehou&s;e, and there you &s;hall be better furni&s;hed, and better cheap, <HI>Prov.</HI> 4. 9. <HI>She &s;hall gave to thine head an ornament of grace, a crown of glory &s;hall &s;he deliver to thee.</HI></P>
<P>And you, O Women and Virgins, remember that you have lamps to trim as well as carca&s;&s;es, if you be wi&s;e indeed. You are of near alliance to corru|ption and the wormes; and when once you come a|mong&s;t your poor Kindred, there will be none of the&s;e things. Follow the living Patterns of divers of your own &s;ex, and tho&s;e per&s;ons of plentiful e|&s;tates, and good quality, who have not touched the&s;e (very doubtful and &s;u&s;picious, if not unclean) things; which thing with the re&s;t of their virtuous works, &s;hall prai&s;e them in the gates, <HI>Prov.</HI> 31. 31. Be not too curious in adorning tho&s;e heads of yours, which mu&s;t &s;hortly be laid in the du&s;t, nor tho&s;e faces which ere long will be bound about with a Napkin. <HI>John</HI> 11. 44. <HI>Jezabel</HI> almo&s;t in the &s;ame houre tired her head in the greate&s;t bravery, and was eaten of dogs, 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 9. 30. She came from looking in the Cla&s;s, to the looking out of that window from which &s;he was ca&s;t headlong. If you will play the wi&s;e
<PB N="39" REF="26"> women, divert your care to more nece&s;&s;ary and bet|ter things. In &s;tead of your broidered curled hair put on &s;hamefa&s;tne&s;s and &s;obriety, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2. 9. This is an Apo&s;tolical Dre&s;s, Head-tire for women that is <HI>Jure Divino,</HI> E&s;pou&s;e your &s;elves as cha&s;te Vir|gins to Je&s;us Chri&s;t, devote your &s;elves entirely to your Princely husband, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 45. 11. <HI>So &s;hall the King greatly de&s;ire your beauty, and you &s;hall have God him&s;elf to be your lover.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>At the Clo&s;e <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> <HI>OR;</HI> A Song of Conver&s;ion by Per&s;ons having &s;eri|ou&s;ly Peru&s;ed this Treati&s;e.</HEAD>
<L>FAl&s;e Hair, the Flag of Pride, take down,</L>
<L>That Witches, Whores and Drunkards crown:</L>
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<L>We who the &s;heep of Chri&s;t profe&s;s,</L>
<L>Shall Goati&s;h looks defile our dre&s;s?</L>
<L>Shall we tempt others unto lu&s;t,</L>
<L>That &s;hortly mu&s;t lie down in du&s;t?</L>
<L>What thus our time and coyn expend;</L>
<L>Who&s;e precious &s;ouls &s;hall have no end?</L>
<L>Lets trim our Lamps by Scripture-Gla&s;s,</L>
<L>That to Eternity mu&s;t pa&s;s:</L>
<L>What we proud Ruffian-duels arm,</L>
<L>By wanton looks, and lu&s;tful charm?</L>
<L>Shall we to envie &s;tir tho&s;e brea&s;ts,</L>
<L>That &s;carce a groat have in their che&s;ts?</L>
<L>Shall we offend tho&s;e pious hearts,</L>
<L>And wound them with our poi&s;oned darts?</L>
<L>That &s;pend their time in &s;ighs and groans,</L>
<L>To weep on us with holy moans?</L>
<L>What we inchanted by their &s;pell,</L>
<L>And merrily dance into hell</L>
<L>With &s;uch as glory in exce&s;s,</L>
<L>And hate the ways to ble&s;&s;edne&s;s.</L>
<L>Shall we for odious trifles fight?</L>
<L>For excrements lo&s;e Heavens light?</L>
<L>Lets with good <HI>Magdalen</HI> amend,</L>
<L>And on his feet our tears &s;pend;</L>
<L>And wipe them clean with our cha&s;t hair,</L>
<L>His precious blood who did not &s;pare.</L>
<Q><BIBL><HI>LUKE</HI> 16. 15.</BIBL>That which is highly e&s;teemed among&s;t men, is abo|mination in the &s;ight of God.</Q>
<Q><GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. Gr. Naz</Q>
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