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Coma berenices; or, The hairy comet; being a prognostick of malignant influences from the many blazing stars wandring in our horizon.
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them some help with expectation of a Christian and favourable acceptance whilst I shall faithfully relate what is written by others And that I may not be farther troublesom I shall only propound to those which are in this trespass a few short and inossensive Queries Qu. 1 Would you willingly attire your Head after the same manner that Witches were wont to do when they went about their inchantments I know you abhor the motion why then lay aside your Wigs and Bulls for thus they harnessed themselves to serve the Devil And one of them Sagana by name betaking her self to her heels upon a sudden fright lost the Jewel off her head Altum Saganae Caliendrum Ex cidere Hor. Serm. l 1. Sat. 8. In English thus Encountring with a sawcy puff of wind Th' Hag left her tow'ring Perewig behind Nay Clem. Alexandrinus and after him Polyd. Virgil and Raderus inform us that these new and strange inventions about womens hair were first found out by Medea a notorious and wicked Sorceress Qu. 2. Would you if you knew it beforehand wear that which of old time to be the dress of harlots Prov. 7. 10. No you would reject it with indignation why then it will cost you the parting with somwhat but you may well spare it For they were wont to trade much in Artificial counterfeit locks and they were Ov. de arte Amand l. 3 wont to send as far as from Italy to Germany to furnish themselves A grave Author saith that such wares were most in request with the Curtizans at Rome Crines ascititii adulterini qui Dempst Ant. Rom. Meretricibus in pretio Messalina that shameless woman when she went to the Stews to prostitute Juven Sat. 6. her self dressed up her self in a Bull and laid forth her naked breasts Et nigrum flavo crinem abscondente galero c. Qu. 3. Would you bring your selves in the same Premunire with the haughty Daughters of Zion which are so sharply rebuked and threatned with burning in stead of beauty Isa 3. 17 24. And to have the Crowns of their Heads smitten with lothsom ulcers I know your answer Why then be not too fond of your well-set hair or affected curls as some render it which was their sin Nay it is said that after our manner they decked themselves with the hair Sanct. in Isa 3. of others and that this custom amongst them was as old as Absalom For we read that when he polled his head 2 Sam. 14. 26. he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels Now say they it is prodigious and ridiculous to think that the pollings of one mans head at every years end should Sanct. in 2 Sa. 14. weigh as much as the fleeces of two sheep Wherefore they conclude that these words must signifie the weight or price at which the Reversion of Absaloms head was sold Puellis solymitanis to the women of Jerusalem to make them Artificial Tresses or Towers of hair Qu. 4. Would you have a hand in pulling down the Judgments of God upon the Kingdom I know your tender hearts cannot endure to think of it Beware then for which they are inflicted when the Lord went about to visit Jerusalem with sore judgements the women are called upon as more immediately concerned in the sin which brought them and the bitterness of them Is 32. 9. Rise up ye women that are at ease hear my voice ye careless daughters give ear unto my speech Again v. 10. Many days and years shall ye be troubled ye careless women for the Vintages shall fail the gathering shall not com once more v. 11. Tremble ye women that are at ease be troubled ye careless ones strip ye and make ye bare and gird sackcloth vpon your loins Though women are the weaker vessels yet they are strong enough to pull down the judgements of God upon a Nation The pride and wantonness of the daughters of Jerusalem was a principal cause of Judahs ruine and in special their affected fashions in their hair Isa 3. 24. Isa 4 4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth from the Daughters of Zion and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgement and by the spirit of burning From which words we may animadvert That what some women account their Finery God calleth their Filth That the Pride of women is ranked with murther one of the most unnatural and crying sins it stands in the same Catalogue with the blood of Jerusalem That it is a filth to be purged away by judgments and fire It deserves to be considered whether the flames which laid London in ashes were not kindled from these sparks Shall England our native Countrey be choaked with hair as one of the Popes is said to be the ignominy of the destruction being added to the sadness and misery of it Qu. 5. Have you a minde to draw forth the impure lustful inclinations of others and so bear a share with them in their sin and punishments Shall Adam in his Posterity complain the second time Gen. 3. 12. The woman which thou gavest me c If you say No. Then forbear to spread Nets and snares for their eyes as if you would invite them to lust after you It is certain that Hair artificially and vainly set out is unto vain mindes a very tempting object Spectat inornatos collo pendere capillos Ov. Met. l. 1. Ecquid si comante ait Qu. 6. Would you be found in such a fantastical Attire at the time of your Death or at the second Appearance of Jesus Christ No then you will all be more humble and serious And why not sooner for what you have done shall be then remembred and accounted for Tertullian wished that at the General Resurrection he Tertul. de cultu Foem might but stand behind those Women and Virgins that went in strange heads and strange faces to see if the Angels would take them up and carry them to meet the Lord in the Air. Qu. 7. Would you follow the Trade of them that are most addicted to thâ—se disguising fashions Are you willing to cast in your lot amongst them I dare becom surety for many of you that you would not Why then eat not of their broth lest in time to come you eat of their Beef To conclude let men abstein from unmanly disguises and fashions Let them shew themselves such by somewhat else besides the wearing of the breeches that is may not be said of Men of this Age That they are but women in mens Apparel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom Odys It should be remembred that we reade but of one man in Scripture that made an idol of his hair and it proved the instrument of his death Oh Absalom Absalom what hath thy pride profited thee and thy goodly locks whereby thy life was insnared like the hunted Stag which hath somtimes bin intangled by reason of his stately-branched stems It was said of old That the Woman was first in the transgression let us not now change places with them If you would have your heads comely and full of grace in stead of the Barbers or Tire-womans shop go to Wisdoms Warehouse and there you shall be better furnished and better cheap Prov. 4. 9. She shall gave to thine head an ornament of grace a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee And you O Women and Virgins remember that you have lamps to trim as well as carcasses if you be wise indeed You are of near alliance to corruption and the wormes and when once you come amongst your poor Kindred there will be none of these things Follow the living Patterns of divers of your own sex and those persons of plentiful estates and good quality who have not touched these very doubtful and suspicious if not unclean things which thing with the rest of their virtuous works shall praise them in the gates Prov. 31. 31. Be not too curious in adorning those heads of yours which must shortly be laid in the dust nor those faces which ere long will be bound about with a Napkin John 11. 44. Jezabel almost in the same houre tired her head in the greatest bravery and was eaten of dogs 2 Kings 9. 30. She came from looking in the Class to the looking out of that window from which she was cast headlong If you will play the wise women divert your care to more necessary and better things In stead of your broidered curled hair put on shamefastness and sobriety 1 Tim. 2. 9. This is an Apostolical Dress Head-tire for women that is Jure Divino Espouse your selves as chaste Virgins to Jesus Christ devote your selves entirely to your Princely husband Psal 45. 11. So shall the King greatly desire your beauty and you shall have God himself to be your lover At the Close 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR A Song of Conversion by Persons having seriously Perused this Treatise FAlse Hair the Flag of Pride take down That Witches Whores and Drunkards crown We who the sheep of Christ profess Shall Goatish looks defile our dress Shall we tempt others unto lust That shortly must lie down in dust What thus our time and coyn expend Whose precious souls shall have no end Le ts trim our Lamps by Scripture-Glass That to Eternity must pass What we proud Ruffian-duels arm By wanton looks and lustful charm Shall we to envie stir those breasts That scarce a groat have in their chests Shall we offend those pious hearts And wound them with our poisoned darts That spend their time in sighs and groans To weep on us with holy moans What we inchanted by their spell And merrily dance into hell With such as glory in excess And hate the ways to blessedness Shall we for odious trifles fight For excrements lose Heavens light Le ts with good Magdalen amend And on his feet our tears spend And wipe them clean with our chast hair His precious blood who did not spare LUKE 16. 15. That which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gr. Naz FINIS