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A45331	Comarum akosmia the loathsomnesse of long haire, or, A treatise wherein you have the question stated, many arguments against it produc'd, and the most materiall arguguments [sic] for it refell'd and answer'd : with the concurrent judgement of divines both old and new against it : with an appendix against painting, spots, naked breasts, &c. / by Thomas Hall ...	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1654 (1654)	Wing H429; ESTC R13863	61,394	134

forbeare all that is good for they will take offence at your praying in your family at your exact walking c. It is one signe that short haire is the best guise beause the wicked of the world are so apt to jeere at it and abhorre it as they doe all things else which are good and therefore Tertull. well observes that none but evill men will take offence at that which is good if wicked men will be offended at us for doing our duty and will take offence when none is given them this is scandalum passivum non datum sed acceptum a scandall not given by us but taken by themselves and is lightly to be regarded Christ himselfe was a rock of offence to the Pharisees not actively but passively they took offence at his poverty and mean condition and see how he slights them Math. 15. 14. Let them alone sith they are desperate they are blinde leaders of the blinde 'T is true we may seeke to please our neighbour in that which is good but not in that which is evill Rom. 15. 2. What God forbids may never be done though we should displease all the world by shunning it No man may sin to avoid scandall Their damnation is just who say Let us doe evill that good may come Rom. 3. 8. The fourth OBJECTION I am not alone in this guise for I find that when this Land was over spread with Heathenisme and Barbarisme long haire was their custome and now of late that we are in some things worse than Heathens we are fallen to it againe Yea in these times of Liberty it s become a Nationall sinne many Great men Lords Knights Esquires Gentlemen goe in this guise c. Ans. Christ is Truth not Custome that custome which hath no ground nor foundation in the Word of God may not be followed by the people of God who must to the Law and to the Testimony and not to Customes Esay 8. 20. A sinfull custome is better broken than kept else if any sinfull custome were sufficient ground for our Practice then Polygamy and the worshipping of Devils would be lawfull because that was an ancient custome But you must know that long haire is contrary to the civill laudable custome of our land since the Reformation for though formerly when the nation worshipped Devils had community of Wives and was over-spread with Heathenisme c. then the ancient Brittains wore excessive long haire yet since the Reformation came amongst us this abuse was reformed and all the days of Queene Elizabeth King James and King Charles a modest Tonsure hath been used which still continues amongst some and the notion abides in most for if the people see a man come up to preach with excessive long haire it is an offence unto them 2. If it be a nationall sin it is so much the worse for when sinne growes generall it brings generall judgements when all the Old World and all Sodome had corrupted their wayes then the judgement of the Lord came on them Genes 6. 5. 7. and 19. 4. 24 25. when all Jerusalem from the least to the greatest from the Prophet to the Priest is given to lewdnesse then it is time for God to resist Jer. 6. 12 13. be the multitude never so great if they walk in an evill way we must not follow it Exod. 23. 2. but oppose it it is a signe of sincerity to be good in bad times with Lot to be good in Sodom with Job in an heathenish Uz and with Noah to be righteous in unrighteous generations Genes 6. 9. and with the Church of Pergamus to be constant in professing Gods truth in a place where Satan reignes and in time when Heresie Supestition and all wickednesse doth abound Rev. 2. 12 13. This is high commendation indeed The vilest will seeme good amongst good company Let a Saul come amongst the Prophets and he will prophesie but to be good in a bad place and not to be ashamed in the midst of an adulterous generation There 's the triall Mark 8. ult 3. It is too true that in these times of liberty we are turned ●…centious a great cause of our unhappiness is our too much happinesse that which makes many so luxuriant in habit haire c. is the want of the golden reines of government It is a hard thing to be good in loose times and to use prosperity well How many have we seen that in times of persecution and adversity which being raised to a greater estate or to some higher condition are become other men like Tuva in the Poet. Vis dicam malè sit cur tibi Tuva benè est Martial l. 10. 13. 4. Whereas you say you have many great men on your side I answer We must live by Rule not by Example or if we will follow examples follow the best and not the worst another mans pride though he be never so great is no rule for me to walk by because such a great man is a drunkard an oppressor c. it doth not follow that therefore we must imitate him we may not partake with great men in their sinnes unless we meane to partake with them in their plagues The more they be and the greater they be that walke in a wicked path the more God is provoked the neerer to judgement and the more suspitious is the way for the most are usually the worst the greatest number go the way to hell Math. 7. 13 14. The whole world lyes in wickednesse John 5. 19. nil mundum in mundo 'T was the complaint of Seneca against the men of his time amongst the causes of our evils saith he this is one that we live by Example neither are we governed by reason but led away by custome That which we would not imitate if few men did it when many men have begun to doe it we follow as if it were more honest because it is more frequent and errour with us supplyeth the place of that which is right when it is made publick Consider there are many base and beggarly b●…ats that weare long locks as well as some great ones Are not the drosse and dregges of men companions with thee in this sinne Look abroad into the world and see whether the vilest man do not usually weare the longest locks Tell me whether ragged Rascalls nasty Varlets Raggamuffi●…n Souldiers Tinkers Crate-carriers Jayle-birds c. are not partakes with thee in this Ruffianly guise And if so I should thinke one neede not bid thee change thy fashion The fifth OBJECTION I have not onely many Great men but also many Good men on my side I see many Ministers and many Professors of Religion in my guise and therefore I hope I may use it still without offence Answ. Ministers and Professors are men and so subject to infirmities yea to enormities when left to themselves as well as others We must therefore follow no Man

weare long haire and as good be out of the World as out of the Fashion cum lupis ululandum est they will doe as the most doe forgetting that broad is the way that leads to Hell and many there be that goe that way Math 7. 13. 2. For the Minor It is clear that long haire is one of the sinfull customes and fashion of the wicked men of the world This will appeare if we look abroad into the remote parts of the world we shall there see that long haire was and still is the guise and fashion of the most barbarous idolatrous heathenish Nations that know not God but worshippe the Devil as the Virginians in America to whom the Devill appeares in the shape of a Virginian with a long black lock on the left side hanging downe neere to the feete whom the Virginians imitate in this Divellish Guise But let us come home and amongst our selves we shall see that usually the vilest proudest profanest deboyshest persons are the greatest Ruffians And is it not made a badge of those proud effeminate Locusts Rev. 9. 8. that they have hair like women I wish we had not too many that res●…mble them for if we look on mens out-sid●…s their Haire Habit Attire c. what difference can you finde between the most gracelesse vaine fantastick Ruffians and many professors of Religion Surely all is not right within when there appeares so much vanity without when Christ is once entertained in the soule it will soone appeare in the haire habit attire in an humble modest mortified selfe-denying walking the soule that loves Christ can easi●…y part with any thing which it conceives to be displeasing to him I shall conclude this point with the Testimony of a reverend Divine a man famous for his Piety and Paines in the Ministry 'T is the duty of Christians saith he not onely to sacrifice their eyes and eares but also their heads to God in a sober and modest wearing of their hair which the Apostle by the testimony of Nature it selfe commendeth to us viz. that men weare short haire because 't is a shame for them to have long haire c. of such long haired men the Scripture recordeth one and but one example viz. Absolom the rebellious and traiterous Sonne of David whose fearefull end and direfull judgement all men know viz. that by his long haire he was hanged in an Oak Oh that our long-haired Gentlemen would make use thereof tremble Would any of them have the like end Though they would not yet let them feare a worse c. Besides how strangely do men cut their hairs some all before some all behinde some long round about their crownes being cut short like Cootes or Popish Priests and Friars some have long locks at their eares as if they had foure eares or were prick eare'd some have a little long look onely before hanging downe to their noses like to the taile of a weasell every man being made a Foole at the Barbers pleasure or making a Foole of the Barber for money to make him such a foole for as it is said of the makers of Idols and Images they that make them are like unto them so it may said of such Fooles and such Barbers c. Most lamentable especially is it that great foretops and long hair hath seized on some in the Ministry that come up to the Chair of Moses more like some Gentlemens Butlers than Ministers of the Word This is a great scandall and no small disgrace to that honourable calling The young yeares of some may not be pleaded for excuse for though they are young in yeares yet by calling they are Elders and ought to be of grave carriage beseeming Elders All these things have I spoken not with any delight but with grief of heart from love to God and men and not without fear of Gods judgements against such things Thus this holy man of God The seventh ARGVMENT From the Rise and Originall of Long haire viz. Pride I argue thus Where the Root is naught the Fruit cannot be good But the Root of long haire is naught it springs from Pride therefore the Fruit cannot be good The Major is cleare The Minor Experience proves We daily see the pride of mens hearts appearing as in their habits and attire so in their haire modest persons are modest in their apparel and haire but proud effeminate persons discover themselves by both Obj. Pride lies in the heart and not in the hair Answ. Pride is principally in the heart yet declares it selfe in the head as in apparel the pride of the heart appears by the vanity without Obj. But many are proud of their shore haire Answ. 1. Suppose this were true yet this will not help you for Recrimination is no Purgation another mans pride will not excuse mine 2. Good men have little cause to be proud in this kinde unlesse it be of the jeeres and scornes of wicked men as Luther said sometime I am even proud of the reproaches of mine enemies 3. It is not Pride but Obedience to Gods commands who hath said we shall not suffer our locks to grow long c. Obj. We see some wicked men weare short haire who have no regard to Gods commands Ans. 1. Two men may do one and the same thing yet upon different accounts and so t is not the same The wicked man prayes and the good man prayes the one doth it out of forme and custome the other out of conscience to Gods command So two men weare short haire the wicked man weares it either because the Pox or the Feaver hath fet off his hair or because his Grandsire wore short haire before him or out of some other carnall principle but the good man wears it singly and solely out of obedience to Gods most sacred Command with an eye to his glory in the adorning of his profession with a modest meeke and humble conversation answerable to the simplicity of the Gospel 2. Where one wicked man weares short haire there is a thousand weares long 3. We must not forsake our grave and modest guise because some wicked men are got into it thou wilt not refuse thy meat because wicked men doe eate nor goe naked because they are cloathed for then you would be like the women of Ulma who coloured their teeth black because dogs teeth were white The eighth ARGUMENT That which is a badge of cruelty and effeminacy must be shunned by the people of God who are commanded to shun all appearance of evill 1 Thes. 3. 22. But long haire is a badge of cruelty and effeminacy Therefore it must be shunned by the people of God The Major is manifest The Minor I prove from Job 5. 5. and 18. 9. where robbers and cruel thieves that devoure mens substance are called Tzammim the hairy ones because cruel theives and rude souldiers do delight in long