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death_n	punishment_n	sin_n	wage_n	4,100	5	11.0461	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

against long haire but they were men famous in their generations for Wisdome and for Piety as Moses Isaiah Ezekiel Paul Austin Jerom many Synods besides those renowned Lights of our own age Calvin Polanus Junius Perkins Reynolds Rogers c. We have a cloud of witnesses against you 2. The nourishing of long haire is not so small a matter as you imagine Is it a small matter to sinne against the light of Nature against the Word of God and the Example of his choisest Servants We may esteeme nothing little that is offensive to God or a breach of his commands Christ tells us Mathew 5. 19. that of what rank or degree soever he be that shall by Doctrine or Practise transgresse the least of Gods commands he shall be of no account in Gods Church here nor have any part in Heaven And to speak properly there is n●… sin in its owne nature considered that is small because there is no small God to sin against no small price paid for sin no little punishment due to sin for the wages of sin be it great or small is death Rom. 6. 23. the least missing of the marke is an error as well as the greatest both alike for kinde though not for degree Hence God hath severely punished disobedience in small matters as eating a forbidden Apple looking into the Arke gathering a few sticks on the Sabbath day Lots Wife for looking back c. Besides the slighting of little sinnes makes way for greater the Devill desires but little at first he would have you but taste of his broth Isaiah 65. 4. for then he knowes ere long you will eat of his Beefe If then the wearing of long haire be a sinne as the Arguments make it clear to any unprejudiced man beware of venturing on it left by your wilfull breach of one of Gods commands at last you come to make conscience of none at all James 2. 10. He that seemes to keepe the whole Law and yet willingly allowes himselfe in the breach of one he performes true obedience to none as Herod The bond of all is broken the authority of all is sleighted and that evill disposition that causeth a man to venture on the breach of one will when offered venture on the breach of any I shall conclude with the words of a learned and laborious Gentleman That which is most suitable to nature to the condition of our sex and the custome of our country and and doth most adorne commend and beautifie us in the eyes of God and of the best the wisest and greatest part of men that is most beautifull and commendable But short haire or hair of a moderate ordinary grave and decent length is most suitable and proportionable to nature to the condition of our sex and custome of our country to all which long haire is contrary therefore short haire is most beautifull and commendable both in the sight of God and of the best wisest gravest and greatest part of men who approve it as the best and comeliest weare both in their judgement and practise c. I have now but one word of exhortation and admonition suffer that to prevaile with you and I have done 1. Let me in the bowels of love and tendernesse beseech those that are young especially such as intend to Ministry to take heed of getting now in their tender yeares a habit of Pride Levity and Vanity lest Sin and Satan at last plead prescription Oh that they would consider how hard it is to break an evill custome Jer. 13. 23. a Blackmore may as soone change his skin and a Leopard his spots as those who are accustomed to do evill can learn to doe well Besides these are times of lamentation and sore affliction and therefore as Gods people in times of great griefe were wont to poll their heads and cut off their haire Job 1. 20. Ezek. 7. 18. Micha 1. 26. So should we in this day of Jacobs trouble cut off our proud effeminate locks and give up our selves to mourning before the Lord for all the abominations of these licentious times Consider that long haire is now become a nationall sinne and therefore the more like to bring nationall plagues Remember what befel long-hair'd Absolom 2 Sam. 18. 20. who was hanged in his owne haire that wherein he chiefly gloried being made by God the instrument of his ruine Consider how God threatneth to wound the head of his enemies and the hairy Pates of such as go on still in their sin Psal 68. 21. Lastly consider how long haire debaseth a man and argue either levity lasciviousness or cruelty and rudeness comam nutrire apud antiquos in viris mollitiei aut ferocia argumentum habebatur D. Reynolds in Apochu King Iames counselling his Son adviseth him not to make a foole of himselfe in disguising or wearing long haire or nailes which are but excrements of nature and bewray such mis-users of them to be their vindictive or vaine light naturalls 2. You that are more ancientand Superiours as Magistrates Ministers Tutors Schoolmasters Fathers Governors c. you are called forth to publick imployment and have the eye of the world upon you and therefore it concerns you in a speciall manner to observe the rules and bounds of Modesty Gravity Humility and Piety in your Habit Haire and whole conversation that your good example may become presidentiall to your Inferiours and you may teach them not onely by your words and directions but also by your works and actions which is the most prevailing Rhetorick 3. In all humility I beseech those grave and godly Divines which in Episcopall times were noted by the profane for their exact walking in this kind that they would retain their former Gravity Humility and Gospel-simplicity in this particular that the eyes of Gods jealousie who walks in the midst of his Church may see nothing in us or ours to displease him but that we may all answer our Gospel-light with Gospel-lives and our Gospel-principles with Gospel-conversations that he may delight to dwell in the midst of us and be our God and Guide for ever that the wicked may be no longer hardned the weak offended the godly grieved nor Gods glorious Name dishonoured by us or 〈◊〉 CORONIS VEreor in hoc vitio plura dicere propter quosdam crinitos fratres quornm praeter hoc multa penè omnia veneramur sed quò magis eos in Christo diligimus eò solicitius admonemus neque metuimus ne humilitas eorū respuat admonitionem nostrā quando quidem nos à talibus ubi fortè titubamus aut aberramus cupimus admoneri c. Hoc ergò admonemus tam sanctos viros ne stultis vanorum hominum argumentationibus moveantur eos in hac perversitate imitentur quibus in caeteris longe sunt dissimiles Aug. de opere Mon. c. 31. Adeò sibi Daemon in cincinnis placet ut cincinnatuli nomen