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

are of opinion that the wearing of precious sumptuous Apparel is no sin which if it were no fault the Divine Word would never have so punctually express'd nor Historically related how the Rich man that was tormented in Hell was cloathed in Purple and Silk whence we may note that touching the matter or subject of Attire humane curiosity availeth highly The first substance of our Garments was very mean to wit Skins with Wooll whence it is we read God made Adam and his Wife Coats of Skins that is of Skins of dead Beasts Afterwards to see the growing pride and vanity of Men and Women they came to pure Wooll because lighter after that to Flax then to Dung and Ordure of Worms to wit Silk Lastly to Gold and Silver and precious Stones which excess of Apparel highly displeaseth God for instance whereof which the very Pagans themselves observed We reade that the very first among the Romans who ever wore Purple were struck with a Thunder-bolt and so died suddenly for a terror to all succeeding times that none should attempt to live proudly in precious Attire this was the sense of Gregory Naziancen that ancient Christian Writer who wore commonly a poor Coat like to a Frock so did Justin Martyr Jerom Austin c. as their best Robe But above all others Jerom a famous man whom we have had occasion to mention once before wrote thus to a Noble Virgin call'd Demetrias exhorting her that having ended her Devotion she should take in hand Wooll and Weaving after the commendable example of Dorcas that by such changing and variety of works the day might seem less tedious and the attempts of Satan less grievous concluding his Religious Exhortation with this positive sentence sayes he I speak generally No Raiment or Habit whatsoever shall seem precious in Christ's sight but that which thou makest thy self either for thy own particular use or example of other Virgins or to give unto thy Grandmother or Mother No though otherwise thou didst distribute thy Goods to the poor Let but this strictness be observ'd and compared with the Apparel Conversation of the Age. For however Pharisee-like they otherwise Saint him or call him an Holy Father Sure it is they reject his counsel The great Duke of Momerancy Colleague to the Duke of Orleance Brother to the French King Lewis the 13th in the War by them agitated against the Ministry of Cardinal Richlieu then grand Minister of State being taken and convicted at Lyons a little before his beheading looking upon himself who was very richly attired Ah sayes he this becomes not a Servant of the Crucified Jesus What do I with these vanities about me He was poor dispised and naked when he went to the Cross to die for my sins And immediately stript himself of all his finery and put a more grave and modest garment on him A serious reflection at a time when he best knew what was best And for the great intemperance of the Age in Recreations and Pleasures most falsly so called hear what more particularly both Heathens and Christians have left recorded although they were before touch'd upon nor can they well be separated from the other Both being the most natural production of the same Womb of Lust Pride and Vanity unworthy of the Nobility of rational and immortal Souls Chilon another of the wise men of Greece left these Three serious Apothegmes or Pathetical Sayings behind him 1 Whosoever thou art learn to know thy self 2 Be not earnest in thy desires after any visible thing 3 Misery will be the end of medling with many matters Intimating the trouble that attends much Traffique and those debates and suites that necessarily follow such a course of living Bias and Stillpo two great Philosophers the first esteemed one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece and Prince of his Citizens who when his City was taken and every one going Bag and Baggage carried nothing with him and being ask'd Why he helped not to secure something with him Answered That he carried all he had about him Meaning a good Conscience and a virtuous Mind which none could rob him of The latter was of the City Megara who when his Country Wise and Children were all destroy'd by fire being ask'd by Demetrius what loss he had sustained answered Nothing for I only count that to be my own which no body can take from me which is the peace of a good mind Anaxagoras a Noble man but a true Philosopher He had a great Estate and large Patrimony which he surrendred to his Friends and being reproved for his carelessness answered It 's enough for you to care One asked him Why he had no more love for his Country I have said he pointing his finger towards the Heavens When he returned from his Travels and saw his great Possessions he uttered this expression Non ego essem salvus nisi istae periissent If I had not dis-regarded them I had perished meaning That if he had let his mind gadd after such fading objects and been exercised with those perishing concerns he had never known the sweetness of a divine life but had been ignorant of that for which his life was given him and consequently had dy'd as miserable as the dispisers of a Heavenly life and lovers of this worlds pleasures are wont to do Themistoeles a great Athenian General being told by Symachus That he would teach him the Art of Memory Gravely answered He had rather learn the Art of Forgetfulness adding He could remember enough but many things he could not forget which were necessary to be forgotten as the Honours Glory's Pleasures and Conquests he had spent his dayes in too apt to transport to vain glory Socrates the most divine and learned Philosopher of his time and whom 't is feign'd that Apollo cal'd the Godd of Wisdom gave this Character That he was the wisest man on Earth was a man of severe life and instructed People gratis in just grave and virtuous manners for which being envied by the vain Comical wit of the Age Aristophanes as spoyling their Trade of Playes and exercising the generality of the People with more noble and virtuous things was represented in a Play by Aristophanes in which he rendred Socrates so ridiculous that the Vulgar would rather part with Socrates in earnest than Socrates in jest which made way for their impeaching him as an enemy to their Godds for which they put him to death But in a short space his 80 Judges the whole People so deeply resented his absence that they slew many of his Accusers some hang'd themselves none would trade with them nor answer them a question They erected several Statues to his praise they forbid his Name to be mentioned that they might forget their injustice They call'd home his banished Friends and Schollers And by the most wise and learned men of that Age it is observed That famous City was