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A54178	No cross, no crown, or, Several sober reasons against hat-honour, titular-respects, you to a single person, with the apparel and recreations of the times being inconsistant with Scripture, reason, and practice, as well of the best heathens, as the holy men and women of all generations, and consequently fantastick, impertinent and sinfull : with sixty eight testimonies of the most famous persons of both former and latter ages for further confirmation : in defence of the poor despised Quakers, against the practice and objections of their adversaries / by W. Penn ...	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1669 (1669)	Wing P1327; ESTC R15257	90,375	122

extravagant and superstitious praises whilst it 's laudable to act the contrary and no so ready away to become vitious as not to be so a strange paradox but too true so blind so stupified so besotted are the foolish sensualists of the world under their great pretences to Religion Faith and Worship Ah! did they know the peace the joyes the unspeakable ravishment of soul that inseparably attend the innocent harmless still and retired Life of Jesus Did they but weigh within themselves the Authors of their vain delights and pastimes the nature and disposition they are so grateful to the dangerous consequences of exercising the mind and its affections below and arresting them from their due attendance and obedience to the most holy crying Voice in their Consciences repent return all is vanity and vexation of spirit Were but these things reflected on were the incessant woings of Jesus and his importunate knocks and intreaties at the door but kindly answered and he admitted to take up his possession there And lastly were such resolved to give up to the instructions and holy guidance of his eternal Spirit in all the humble heavenly and righteous Conversation it requires and of which he is become our Captain and Example then O then both root and branch of Vanity the Nature that invented and which delights her self therein with all the folly's themselves would be consum'd and vanish But they alas cheat themselves by misconstrued Scriptures and daub with the untempered Mortar of misapply'd Promises My Friends mind the just Witness holy Principle in your selves that you may experimentally know more of the divine Life in which and not in a multitude of vain repetitions and aiery fancies true and sollid felicity eternally consists Hipparchia A fair Macedonian Virgin Noble of Blood as they term it but more truly noble of mind I cannot omit to mention who entertain'd so earnest an affection for Crates the Cynical Philosopher as well for his severe life as excellent discourse that by no means could her Relations nor Suiters by all their wealth nobility beauty disswade her from being his companion Upon which strange resolution they all betook themselves to Crates beseeching him to shew himself a true Philosopher in perswading her to desist which he strongly endeavoured by many arguments but not prevailing went his way and brought all the little furniture of his house and shew'd her This saith he is thy Husband that the furniture of thy house Consider on it for thou canst not be mine unless thou followest the same course of life for being rich above 20 tallents which is more then 50000. l. he neglected all to follow a retired studious life all which had so contrary an effect that she immediately went to him before them all and said I seek not the pomp and effeminacy of this world but knowledge and vertue Crates and chuse a life of temperance before a life of delicacies for true satisfaction thou know'st is in the mind and that pleasure is only worth seeking that lasts for ever Thus was it she became the constant companion both of his love and life his friendship and his virtues travelling with him from place to place and performing the publick Exercises of Instruction with Crates wherever they came She was a most violent enemy to all Impiety but especially to wanton men and women and those whose garb and conversation shew'd them devoted to vain pleasures and pastimes Effeminacy rendring the like persons not only unprofitable but pernitious to the whole world Which she as well made good by the example of her exceeding industry temperance and severity as those are wont to do by their intemperance and folly for ruine of health estates virtue and loss of eternal happiness have ever attended and ever will attend such earthly minds Thus may the voluptuous Women of the times read their reproofs in the character of a brave Heathen and learn That sollid happiness consists in a divine and holy composure of mind in a neglect of wealth and greatness and contempt of all corporal pleasures as more befitting Beasts than immortal Spirits And which are us'd by none but such as not knowing the excellency of heavenly things are both inventing and delighting like brutes in that which perisheth giving the preference to poor mortality and spending their lives to gratifie the lusts of a little dirty flesh and blood that shall never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven by which their minds become dark'ned and so insensible of more Coelestial Glory 's that they do not only refuse to enquire after them but infamously scoff and despise whosoever do as a foolish frantick meer mad People to that strange degree of darkness and impudence this Age has got But if the exceeding temperance chastity virtue industry and contentedness of very Heathens with the plain and necessary enjoyments God has been pleased to vouchsafe the Sons and Daughters of Men as sufficient to their wants that they may be the more at leisure to answer the great end of their being born will not suffice but that they will exceed the bounds precepts and examples both of Heathens and Christians by the invention of vanities to indulge their bodies Wrath and inexpressible anguish shall overtake them when they shall have an Eternity to think with gnashing teeth on what to all Eternity they can never remedy These dismal wages are decreed to be their lot who so far affront God Heaven and Eternal felicities as to neglect their acquaintance with them and daily increase in the love and knowledge of them meerly to gratifie the desires of perishing flesh and for the enjoyment of a few fading toyes For such to think that notwithstanding their lives of sense and pleasure wherein their minds become slaves to their bodies that they shall be everlastingly happy is one of the greatest evils they can commit since 't is the greatest abuse to the Holy God that Men and Women should believe him an eternal companion for their carnal and sensual minds for as the tree falls so it lyes as death leaves them judgment finds them there 's no repentance in the grave Therefore you to whom this comes O retire with-draw a while let not the Body see all taste all enjoy all but let the Soul see too taste and enjoy that knowledge and divine food and those heavenly refreshments proper to that invisible World of which she is an Inhabitant and where she must abide in an eternal state of peace or plagues when this visible one shall be dissolved Quintillian had so ill an opinion of the Stage-players that besides other enormities he plainly termed them Hypocrites gross dissemblers and lyars from counterfeiting the manner measure motion gesture gate feature and actions of such persons as they represent whose fashion and humour they too often insinuate in beholders as well as they retain them themselves when they have put on their own cloaths again How true this guess was in an Heathen

self-denyal the good of others at whose Reformation I aim and my own discourse as to omit it and therefore I shall proceed to alleage their Faith and Practice in these matters however esteem'd but of a trifling importance by the loose wanton and carnal minded of this generation whose feeling is lost by the enjoyment of their inordinate desires and that think it a high state of Christianity to be no better than the Beasts that perish namely in not being excessive in Newgate and meer Kennel-enormities that these first Reformers had another sense of these things that they made the Conversation of the Gospel of a Crucified Jesus to intend and require another sort of life than what is usual with almost all those who account themselves Members of Christ I shall shew out of their own Doctrines as found in the most authentick Histories To be brief In their Exposition upon the Lord's Prayer that part of it which speaks thus Give us this day our daily bread Where next to that spiritual bread which they make it to be the duty of all to seek more than life they come positively to deny the praying for more than is requisite for outward necessities or that its lawful to use more condemning all superfluity and excess out of fashion pride or wantonness not only of bread but all outward things which they judge to be thereby comprehended using Ezekiel's words That fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was the cause of the wickedness and the abominations of Sodom for which God by fire destroy'd them off the Earth whereupon they conclude with an ancient Father of the Primitive Church after this manner That costly Apparel superfluity in diet as three Dishes when one will serve play idleness sleep which fatten the body nourish luxury weaken the spirit and lead the soul unto death but say they a spare diet labour short sleep plain and mean garments help to purifie the soul tame the body mortifie the lusts of the flesh and comfort the spirit So severe were they that in that Chapter of the Instruction of their Children they would not suffer them to converse with those of strange places or principles whose conversation was Gameing Plays and the like wanton Recreations but especially concerning young Women A Man say they must have a great care of his Daughters Hast thou Daughters keep them within to wholsome things see they wander not for Dina Jacob's Daughter was corrupted by being seen of strangers they affirm no better to be the general event of such conversation To which I shall add their Opinion and Practice concerning Taverns publick Houses for Treats and Pleasure of which the Land swarms in our dayes A Tavern is the fountain of sin the school of the Devil it works wonders fitting the place It is the custom of God to shew his power in his Church and to work Miracles that is to say to give sight to the spiritually blind to make the lame to leap the dumb to sing the deaf to hear But the Devil doth quite contrary to all these in Taverns and the like places of Pleasure for when the Drunkard goes to the Tavern he goes upright but when he comes forth he cannot go at all he has lost his sight speech and hearing too The Lectures that are read in this school of the Devil say these poor Waldenses and first Reformers are Gluttony's Oaths Perjury's Lyings Blasphemy's Flattery 's and divers other wicked Villany's and pernitious effects by which the heart is with-drawn further and further from God And as the Ecclesiasticus saith The Taverner shall not be freed from sin But above other Recreations do but seriously observe of what danger and ill consequence these first Reformers thought Dancing Musick and the like Pastimes to be which is the greatest divertisement of these dayes Dancing is the Devils Procession and he that entreth into his procession the Devil is the guide the middle and the end of the dance as many paces as a man maketh in dancing so many paces doth he make to go to Hell A man sinneth in dancing divers wayes as in his pace for all his steps are numbred in his touch in his ornaments in his hearing sight speech and other vanities And therefore we will prove first by the Scripture and afterwards by divers other Reasons how wicked a thing it is to dance The first testimony that we will produce is that which we read in the Gospel where 't is said to please Herod so well that it cost John Baptist his life The second is in Exodus when Moses coming near to the Congregation saw the Calf he cast the Tables from him and broke them at the foot of the mountain and afterwards it cost three and twenty thousand their lives Besides the Ornaments which Women wear in their dances are as Crowns for many victory 's which the Devil hath got against the Children of God For the Devil hath not only one Sword in the dance but as many as there are beautiful and well adorned Persons in the dance for the words of a Woman are a glittering sword And therefore that place is much to be seared wherein the Enemy hath so many swords since that one only sword of his may be justly feared Again The Devil in this place strikes with a sharpned sword for the Women who make it acceptable come not willingly to the dance if they be not painted and adorned that which painting and ornament is as a Whetstone on which the Devil sharpneth his sword They that deck and adorn their Daughters are like those that put dry wood to the fire to the end it may burn the better for such Women kindle the fire of Luxury in the hearts of men As Sampson's foxes fir'd the Philistines corn so these women they have fire in their faces and in their gestures and actions their glances and wanton words by which they consume the goods of men Again The Devil in the dance useth the strongest Armour that he hath for his most powerful arms are Women which is made plain unto us in that the Devil made choice of the Woman to deceive the first Man so did Balaam that the Children of Israel might be rejected of God By a woman he made Sampson David and Absolom to sin The Devil tempteth men by women three manner of wayes that is by the Touch by the Eye by the Eare by these three means he tempteth foolish men to dancings by touching their hands beholding their beauty hearing their songs and musick Again They that dance break that Promise and Agreement they have made with God in Baptism when their Godfathers promise for them That they shall renounce the Devil and all his pomp for dancing is the pomp of the Devil and he that danceth maintaineth his pomp and singeth his mass For the Woman that singeth in the dance is the Prioress or chiefest of the Devil and those that Answer are the

this towards the end of his dayes That notwithstanding he had been so laborious gather'd so many curiosities of Learning in Books and Manuscripts comprehending almost all subjects in the world yet could he rest his Soul on none save the Scriptures and above all that passage lay as most remarkable upon his spirit Titus 2. 11 12 13 14 15. For the grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and glorious Appearing of the great God our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from All iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar People zealous of good works These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority 14. Hugo Grotius than whom these latter Ages think they have not had a man of more profound Policy and universal Learning as well in his Commentaries on the Bible as various other Labours left this remarkable saying behind him which should abate the edge of other mens inordinate desires after what they falsely call Learning namely I WOULD GIVE ALL MY LEARNING AND HONOUR FOR THE PLAIN INTEGRITY AND HARMLESS INNOCENCY OF JEAN URICK who was a Religious poor man that spent eight hours of his time in Prayer eight in Labour and but eight in Meals Sleep and other necessary's And to one that admired his great Industry he returned this by way of complaint Ah! I have consumed my life in laboriously doing nothing And to a third that inquired of his Wisdom and Learning what course to take he solemnly answered BE SERIOUS Such was the sense he had how much a serious life out of that vain-glory of the worlds fruitless learning was of force towards a dying hour and answering yea excelling all other Considerations 15. To whom I joyn Salmusius that famous French Protestant Scholler and the others Contemporary who after his many Volumns of Learning by which he had acquired so much esteem as scarcely to be nam'd without venerable Titles confessed so far to have mistaken true Learning and that in which sollid happiness consists that he exclaim'd thus against himself Oh! I have lost a world of TIME TIME that most precious thing in the world whereof had I but one year more it should be spent in David's Psalms and Paul's Epistles Oh Sirs said he to those about him Mind the World less and God more The fear of the Lord that is Wisdom and to depart from evil that is Understanding 16. Cardinal Mazarine the great Statesman of his time whose aim was to obtain the Glory and Greatness of the World and to which end all other considerations he made submit was of another mind a little before his death being awakened by the smart lashes of Conscience which represented his Souls condition in so dismal a manner and caus'd such astonishment of mind that with weeping he cry'd out O MY POOR SOUL WHAT WILL BECOME OF THEE WHITHER WILT THOU GO And spoke one day thus to the Queen-Mother of France Madam YOUR FAVOURS HAVE UNDONE ME WERE I TO LIVE AGAIN I WOULD BE A CAPUCHIN RATHER THAN A COURTIER 17. And to conclude these serious Instances I shall make one more which though in order should have come in before yet because one of the most importent and this Nations more peculiarly fit for consideration I shall place it here and namely The dying words of HENRY Prince of Wales eldest Son to King JAMES of whom others say many generous things hear what account he gives of himself at last A Person whom he more then ordinarily esteem'd and that had been his companion at Tennis asking him How he did was answered thus amongst many other sober expressions AH TOM I IN VAIN WISH FOR THAT TIME I LOST WITH THEE AND OTHERS IN VAIN RECREATION So vain was Recreation and so precious was Time upon a dying bed And why wish'd he with others for more time but that it might be otherwise employ'd Thus hath the just Principle and holy Spirit of God throughout all Generations convinced men of their vanity and folly upon their dying beds who before were too much taken up therewith to mind either a dying bed or vast Eternity but when their dayes were almost numbred when mortality hasten'd on them when the revelation of the righteous Judgement was at the door and that all their worldly Recreations and Enjoyments must be parted with and that Eye for ever shut and Flesh turn'd to worms-meat that took delight therein then O then it was the holy Witness had time to plead with Conscience then nothing but a holy strict and severe life was valuable then All the world for a little time who before had given all their time for a little of a vain world But if so short a representation of the inconsistency of the vanities of the world with the Christian life could make so deep an impression Oh! to what a noble stature and large proportion had they been grown in all Pious and Heavenly knowledge and how much greater had their Rewards been if they contentedly had foregone those perishing Entertainments of the World betimes and given the exercise of their minds to the tuition and guidance of that universal Grace and Holy Spirit of God which had so long shined in darkness uncomprehended of it and was at last but just perceiv'd to give a sight of what they had been doing all their dayes I shall wind up the whole with this short Description of the Christans within the first hundred years after Christ as what may further justifie not only my Reasons but the Dying Expressions of these several Persons viz. That as a severe life is the Christian life so that it is incomparably sweeter than all the vain Inventions Fashions and Pleasures of the World 18. The description was originally given by Philo-Judaeus and cited by Eusebius Pamphilius thus That those Christians renounced their substance and sever'd themselves from all the cares of this life and forsaking the Cities they lived solitarily in Fields and Gardens They accounted their company who followed the Country-life of cares and bussle as unprofitable and hurtful unto them as it was likely who then lived thus to the end that with earnest and fervent desire they might imitate them which lead this prophetical and heavenly life In many places this people liveth for it behoveth as well the Grecians as the Barbarians to be partakers of this absolute goodness But in Egypt in every Province they abound and especially about Alexandria From all parts the better sort withdrew themselves into the soil and place of these Worshippers as they were called as a most commodious place adjoyning to the Lake of Mary in a low Vale very fit both for its security and the temperance of the Air. They are further reported to have Meeting-houses where the most part of the day was employed