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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

NO Cross no Crovvn 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 the 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 j. An humble Disciple and patient Bearer of the Cross of Jesus But Mordecai bowed not Esth 3. 2. Adam where art thou Gen. 3. 9. In like manner the women adorn themselves in modest Apparal not with brodered hair c. 1 Tim. 2. 9. Thy Law is my Meditation all the day Psal 119. 97. Printed in the Year 1669. To my Ancient Friends F.S. E.B. H.S. J.C. I.N. A.L. M.L. T.C. MY Friends As you were particularly in my thoughts upon the writing of these sheets so is it not less my desire to make you particular in their publication Many have been the Objections with which you frequently have beset me on this account but not with that success I hope their Answers will have with you My matter stile and method speak not the least premeditation or singularity but that simplicity and truth which plainly show the affectionate sincerity of my heart and best wishes for your true happiness that from Defendants of vain foolish proud and wanton Customs which exercise the minds of men and women below the excellencies of Immortality the highest end of their Creation you may become Disciples of that self-denying Jesus who first brought that great felicity to light and gladly Sacrifice your all as but your reasonable service in order to so glorious a Reward By whatsoever is dear I would beseech you to relinquish that very vanity of vanities I mean those Fashions Pleasures and that whole variety of Conversation which make up the Life and satisfaction of the Age and are those earthy impediments that clog your Souls flight to more sublime and Heavenly contemplations they were of old summ'd into three heads the lust of the eye the lust of the flesh and the pride of life which are the off-spring of the World and not of the Father Reflect upon the incertainty of your lives the Immortality of your Souls and that Eternal state they must be sentenc'd to but above all be you intreated to eye that Divine Principle engrafted on your minds in all its holy meek and self-denying instructions that being mostly exercised thereby you may be wean'd from all the glittering Follies of the World which only weak and fordid spirits please themselves withal and sensibly experiment the inexpressible delights and ravishments of Soul which are the inseparable companions of such retirements By which you may be lead into that temperance piety and self-denial that will render you so many noble Witnesses against the folly lust and gross intemperance of the Age and unquestionably entitle you to Honor Glory Immortality and Eternal Life then which as there can be nothing more truly excellent so not any thing more earnestly desir'd on your account by Your true Friend W. P. The Preface THe Business of this Preface is to request of the Reader two things for his own sake which I have so much the less reason to doubt of being granted as it would show him very destitute of charity who wilfully would be so injurious to himself The first is That he would be very Serious remembring that he who despiseth what he does not know bespeaks himself a fool as well as that he is injoyn'd to try all things though only obliged to believe what is good The Subject is serious for it is the blessed Cross of Christ the work it is designed for is serious for 't is the Crucifixion of the vain wanton and fleshly appetites of worldly men and if the Reader be so too I question not but the Just Principle to which I make my appeal will justifie me and it become instrumental to his convincement but if he shall demean himself with crittical and frothy jests I can only say the greater shall be his condemnation yet let him remember that it is the purpose of this Discourse to prove what Jesus Christ hath said namely that for every idle word he speaks he shall render an account in the day of Judgment The next thing I have to ask is that he would be Impartial for he that reads and makes his prejudic'd constructions mine or seems to slight the Subject Book or Matter because he disrespects the Author or his Opinions in other points may give sufficient evidence of his own weakness but not discover mine since there is not ●ny thing less becomes an equal Christian temper then to ●nterpret ill of that which means not so and to love or h●te things by names and for their Authors sake a practice not more wretched then common Nay 't is the Doctrine Use and Application of too many to learn people to hate others Principles in order to detest their persons and so from an Opinion-difference bring it into a personal one from whence flows all the malice and bitterness that reign amongst those who are called Christians but if this Reader be such a one he is either an ill Teacher or very ill taught I onely have to tell him that as such pre-opinion prevents all clear and certain examination of things by which he is at a loss about his own faith and other mens so if he would be benefited by this Discourse if he would read the character and condemnation of a wicked world and if he would be truly inform'd of that Life and Conversation which are according to godlines and give entrance after time shall end into the endless Joys of an Eternal Glorious Rest and Habitation in the Heavens let him be Serious let him be Impartial And may that Almighty Power which raised Jesus from the Dead quicken his mind and raise his affections to the knowledge and possession of Immortality which as it is the whole requital I desire for my exceeding love and earnest desires for the reformation of an intemperate and voluptuous World to the Self-denying Life and Innocence of Holy Jesus so shall it be a matter of rejoycing to all the Faithfull That the Errors of the Press are not the Authors is to be supposed and therefore he reasonably is to be excepted from the charge of them The Contents CHAP. I. SIxteen Reasons against Hat-Honour and Titular-respects That they are inconsistant with the nature of Honour Honour is in the mind and exprest by real service to God or Men. The Hat no expression of Honour Titles the Scriptures condemn them The Effects of Pride and Vanity No advantage to men and women Contrary to the best Times the best Men and several Authors CHAP. II. TWelve Reasons against You to a Single

become thereby excited it may be to more vanity than ever they might have thought upon which are incomparably dearer to them than all that can be said of God's Fear a retired Life eternal Rewards and Joyes unspeakable and full of Glory So vain so blind and so very insensible are Men and Women of what truly makes a Disciple of Christ O that they would ponder on these things and watch out of all these vanities for the coming of the Lord lest being unprepared and taken up with other Guests they enter not into his Everlasting Rest Reason 9. That which further manifests the unlawfulness of these numerous Fashions and Recreations is That they are either the inventions of vain idle and wanton minds to gratifie their own sensualities and raise the like wicked curiosity in others to imitate the same by which nothing but lust and folly are promoted or the contrivances of indigent and impoverish'd Wits who make it the next way for their maintenance in both which respects and upon both which considerations they ought to be detested for the first in that it were to license express Impiety for the latter because it would be to countenance so wretched a way of livelihood and consequently divert from more lawful more serviceable and more necessary employments That such Persons are both the inventers and actors of all these follies cannot be difficult to demonstrate Alas Could it possibly be That one from Palistina should bring us Father Adam's Girdle and old Mother Eve's Apron to be shewen What laughing what fleering what mocking of their Grandfather's and Grandam's homely fashion would there be surely their Tayler would find but little custome although we hear 't was God himself that made them Coats of Skins The like may be asked of all the other vanities concerning the Holy Men and Women through all the generations of Holy Writ How many pieces of Ribbond Feathers Lace-Bands and the like had Adam in Paradise or out of it What rich Embroyders Silks Points c. had Abel Enoch Noah and good old Abraham Did Eve Sarah Susanna Elizabeth and the Virgin Mary use to Curle Pouder Pummatum Patch Paint wear false Locks of strange colours rich Points Trimmings lac'd Gowns embroyder'd Pettecoats Shooes and Slip-slaps lac'd with Silk or Silver lace and ruffl'd like Pigeons-feet with several yards if not pieces of Ribbonds How many Playes did Jesus Christ and his Apostles recreate themselves at What Poets Romances Comedies and the like did these Holy Men and Women make or use to pass away their time withal I know they bid all redeem their time to avoid foolish talking vain jesting prophane babblings and fabulous stories as what increase to more ungodliness and rather to watch to work out Salvation with fear and trembling to flee foolish and youthful lusts by name and to follow righteousness peace goodness love charity and to mind the things that are above as they would have honour glory immortality and eternal life But if I were ask'd Whence came they then I could quickly answer From the Gentiles that knew not God for some amongst them detested them as will be shewn they were the Pleasures of an effeminate Sardanapalus a fantastick Miracles a Comical Aristophanes a Prodigal Charaxus a Luxurious Aristippus and the practises of such Women as the infamous Clytemnestra the painted Jezabel the lascivious Campaspe the immodest Posthumia the costly Corinthian Libidinosa the most impudent Flora the wanton Egyptian Cleopatra and most insatiable Messalina Persons whose memory have stunk through all Ages and carry with them a perpetual rot these and not the Holy Self-denying Men and Women in ancient times were devoted to the like Recreations and vain delights nay the more sober of the very Heathens themselves and that upon a Principle of great virtue as is by all confess'd detested the like folly and wanton practices there 's none of them to be found in Plato nor in Seneca's Works Pythagoras Socrates Phocion Zeno c. accustom'd not themselves to these entertainments The virtuous Penelope the chast Lucretia the grave Cornelia and modest Pontia with many others could find themselves employment enough amongst their Children Servants and Neighbors they though Nobles next their Devotion delighted most in Spinning Weaving Gardening Needlework and such like good House-wifery and commendable entertainments who though called Heathens expres'd much more Christianity in all their actions than do the wanton foolish People of this Age that notwithstanding will be called Christians But above all You Playmongers whence think you came your so passionately beloved Comoedies then which as there is not any one divertion that 's more pernitious so not one more in esteem and diligently frequented Why I will tell you Their great Grand-father was an Heathen and that of the worst sort his Name was Epicharmus 't is true he is called a Philosopher or a lover of Wisdom but he was only so by name and no more one in reality than the Comoedians of these times are Christians and that 's not at all 'T is reported of him by Suidas a Greek Historian that he was the first man who invented Comoedies and by the help of one Phormus he made also fifty Fables or if you will Lyes But would you know his Country and the reason of his invention the first was Syracuse the chief City of Sicily famous for the infamy of many Tyrants to please and gratifie the lusts of some of whom which is the second he set his wits to work And don't you think this a most infamous original and is it less in any to imitate or justifie the same since the more sober Heathens have themselves condemned them nay is it not most abominable when such as call themselves Christians do both imitate and justifie the like inventions Nor had the melancholy Tragedies a better parentage namely one Thespis an Athenian Poet to whom they also do ascribe the original of that impudent custom of painting faces and the counterfeit or representation of other persons by change of habits humours c. all which are now so much in use and reputation with the great Ones of the times To these let me add that Poetical Amorosoe whom an inordinate passion of Love first transported to those Poetical raptures of admiration indeed sordid effeminacy if not Idolatry they call him Aleman or Alcina a Lydian and an Heathen he being exceedingly in Love with a young Woman of his own Country is said to have been the first person that gave the World a sight of that kind of folly namely Love-stories and Verses which hath been so diligently imitated by almost all Nations ever since Object 2. I know that some will say But we have many Comoedies and Tragedies that are on purpose to reprehend Vice from whence we learn many commendable things Answ And truly though it 's shameful yet many have been wont for want of shame or understanding or both to return me this for answer

and rather chuse to live an humble serious and self-denying life Wherefore my Friends since we are compassed about with so great a cloud of Witnesses let 's lay aside every weight and the sins of Vanities that do so easily beset us and with a constant holy patience run our Race having our Eyes fixed upon Jesus the Author and finisher of our Faith not minding what 's behind so shall we be delivered from every snare no sin shall gain us no frowns scare us from our self-denying life and honour glory immortality and eternal Life shall recompence our Sufferings and the Truth be more abundantly exalted For the cry is long since gone up How long How long How long O Lord God holy and true will it be ere thou wilt come and take thy great Power and Raign To which the answer hath been Yet a very little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry to visit the dark corners of the Earth with his great Salvation to destroy the enemies of his Chosen and make way for the righteous Nation to bind Satan in chains and his wandring Spirits in fetters of Iron that the Prisoner may come out of the pit and the Spirit that 's grieved rejoyce that the Lame may leap as an Hart and the tongue of the Dumb may sing that waters may spring in the Wilderness and streams in the Desart and the barren Land become a standing Pool that Truth may replenish the Earth and Righteousness run down like a mighty stream that joy peace and serenity may cover the whole Creation Which as it hath been promised so is it on its way to be accomplished for the eternal Sabbath is at hand in which the doer of his own works shall perish and that everlasting Jubilee at the door to which whomsoever shall come without the Robe that has been first wash'd white in the Blood of the Lamb and the many Tribulations shall be cast out into utter darkness where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth for ever But as for the Redeemed and Sanctified of God who have followed Jesus in the narrow path of Regeneration and not loved their lives unto the death their sorrow shall fly away every tear shall be wiped from their eyes and sighing shall be heard no more within their Borders But joyes unspeakable and full of glory shall be their everlasting Inheritance so shall Divine Honour and Eternal Hallelujahs be unanimously rendered to him that sits upon the Throne and the Lamb who is the most High and Holy One that Lives and Reigns God bless'd and renoun'd for ever Amen THE END Joh. 3. 1. 2. Levit. 19. 15. 1 Sam. 2. 30. Ps 50. 23 Isa 33. 15. 〈…〉 13 Prov. 3. 16. Ch. 11. 8. Prov. 11. 16. Ch. 15. 33. and 26. 1. 8. Eccl. 12. 1 2 3 4. 1 John 2. 15 16. James 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Jude 16. Matth. 20 25 26 27 Luke 22. 25 26 27. Rom 1. 28 29. 〈◊〉 32. Matth. 8 5. to 12. Luk. 7 6 7 8 9. Mat. 23. 5. to 12. Mark 12. 38. Luk. ●● 43. Joh. 5. 44. Jam. 3. 1. Isa 33. 22. Jam. 4. 12. Plut. In. vit Rom. Joh. 5. 44. ● Sam 14. 14. Acts 10. 27. 35. Ephes 6. 9. C●● 3 25. Jam. 2 3 ● 10 11. ●●b 32. 22. Rev. 22. 8. 9. Rom. 12. 2. 1 Cor. 7. 31. 1 Pet. 1. 14. 1 Joh. 2. 1● Marlor out of Luther and Calv. Jerom Epist ad Celant Int. oper Causab of Use and Custom pag. 169. Gen. 2. 16 chap 3. 9. Gen. 12. 19. ch 14. 21. and chap. 20. 3. 2 King 19. ●1 Jer. 13. 12. Hos 1 1. chap. 6. 10. Dan. 2. 26. 27. Howel's History of France Jam. 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. 1 Pet. 3. 4 5. Rom. 1 19. to the end 1 Tim 5. 6. Col. 3. 1 2 3. Phil. 2. 12. Job 32. 22 Luk 9. 23. Mat. 10. 37. 38. Mar. 8. 34. Heb. 11. 14 15 16. Luther Lud. Int. oper Erasm Colloq Hist Hispan Lips adver voss How Hist of France Gen. 3. 21. chap. 2. 15 16 17. Gen. 12. 1. 5. Amos 7. 14 15. Luk. 1. 15. Mat. ● 1 2 3 4. Mat. 13. 55. Mark 6. 3. Luk. 7. 25. Luk. 16. 19. to the end Mat. 4. 18. Mat. 9. 9. Acts 18. 1 2 3. Joh. 13. 15. 1 Cor. 4. 9 10 11 12 13 14. Phil. 3. 17 1 Pet. 2. 21. Jam. 19. 10. 1 Pet. 3 4 5. 1 Tim 5. 6. Luk. 8. 14. Heb. 11. 2 14 15 16. Chap. 4. 9. Rev. 14. 13. Isa 3. 16. to the end The very practice and garb and mean and vanity of this Age being as liable to the Wrath of God Ezek. 27. the whole chap. Zeph. 1. 8. Mat. 6. 31 32 33. Luk. 12. 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36. Rom. 14. 17. 1 Tim. 2. 9 10. 1 Pet. 3. 3 4 5. 1 Tim. 15. 6. Jam. 5. 5 6. Ephes 4. 22. Phil. 3. 20. Col. 3. 1 2 3 4. Rom. 13. 13 14. Eph. 5. 2. 3. Eph. 4. 29. Rom. 13. 14. Ephes 4. 30. Eph. 15. 1. 1. 15 16. Gal. 6. 4 5 6 7 8 9. Rom. 2. 5 6 8 9. Phil. 3. 20. 1 Pet. 1. 15. Heb. 10. 2 15. 1 Pet. 4. 9 10 11. Eph. 6. 4. to 11. Mat. 25. 36 37. Phil. 2. 4. Chap. 4. 8. Gen. 5. 24. Psal 1. 2. 63. 6. 119. 15. 23. 48. 143. 15. Amos 6. 3 to 8. Eccles 11. 3 Eccles 11. 3. Gal. 6. 4 5 6 7 8 9. Eph. 5. 4 5. Phil. 4. 6 7. Eph. 4. 18 19 20. Mat. 13. 8 9. Rom. 10. 2. Mat. 12. 36. Eph. 5. 15 16. Phil. 3. 14 15. 2 Pet. 2. 10. Col. 4. 5. 1 Tim. 4. 4 5 6 7 to the 17. Rom. 6. 3 4 5 6 7 8. 1 Cor. 12. 13 Gal. 3. 27. Col. 2. 12 13. Eph. 3 12 13. Job 31. 15 16. Jam. 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Psal 4. 2. 12. 2. Job 35. 13. Eccles 2. 1 2. Eph. 4. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25. Phil. 4. 6 7 8 9. Job 24. 12. Psa 103. 22. Prov. 18. 14 Psal 51. 17. Mat. 5. 4. Luk. 6. 25. Rom. 2. 7. Psal 40. 8. Prov. 13. 21. Rom. 7. 22. Heb. 11. 13 14 15 16. Rom. 1. 25 26 27 to 33. Eph. 13. 12 Job 1. 4. Mat. 27. 38 39. 1 Joh. 2. 15 16 17. Job 36. 7. Psal 5. 12. Psal 37. 25 29. Prov. 10. 7. Mar. 14. 9. Psa 16. 10. Luk. 16. 13. Joh. 15. 17 18 19. Ch. 16. 20. Ch. 17. 15 16 17. 2 Pet. 3. 11. Heb. 11. 24 25 26 27. Rom. 8. 18. 2 Tim. 3. 11 12. Heb. 12. 1 2. Mat. 10. 37. Mat. 16. 24. Luk. 9. 23. Phil. 2. 12. Col. 3. 1 2. Eph. 5. 4 5. Neh. 13. 9. Psal 112. 1. Psal 28. 14. Psa 119. 97. Luk. 18. 23. Heb. 11. 36. 1 Tim. 4. 10. Heb. 10. 33. Ch. 12. 37 38. Luk. 6. 20. Ch. 12. 32. Ch. 22.

be fruits of Pride and Flattery and we dare not run into those vain compliances to earthly minds but having been sincerely affected with the reproofs of Instruction and our minds brought into a watchfull subjection to the righteous Law of Jesus we cannot conform our selves to the Fashions of the World that pass away knowing assuredly that for every idle word men speak they shall give an account in the day of Judgment And therefore I would beseech all people to be cautious how they reproach us on this occasion but rather that they would seriously weigh in themselves whether it be the spirit of the World or of the Father that is so angry with our honest plain and harmless Thou and Thee that so every Plant that God himself hath not planted may be rooted out CHAP. III. Several sober Reasons urg'd against the vain Apparel and usual Recreations of the Age as Gold Silver Embroyderies Pearls precious Stones Lockets Rings Pendents breaded and curl'd Locks Painting Patching Laces Points Ribonds unnecessary change of Cloaths superfluous Provision out of state costly and useless Attendence Rich Furnitures Plays Parts Mulbery and Spring-Gardens Treats Balls Masks Cards Dice Bowls Chess Romances Comedies Poets Riddles Drollery vain and unnecessary Visits c. by which they are proved inconsistent with a Christian life and very destructive of all civil society Reason I. BEcause Sin brought the first Coat if there had been no sin there had been no need of Apparel 't was Adam and Eve's fall that made them first seek a Covering They were once naked and knew no shame but after Transgression they were asham'd to be longer naked Innocence was once the only covering but that being lost Necessity put them to seek a worse Ah blessed time when Purity not Ignorance freed them from such shifts Since therefore sin brought shame and shame stood first in need of covering how impudently shameless are those who pride and please themselves in the first Institution is grosly perverted the utmost service that Cloaths originally were designed for when sin had stript them of their native Innocence and great simplicity was to cover their shame therefore plain and modest next to fence out cold therefore substantial Lastly to differ Sexes and therefore distinguishing so that then meer necessity provok'd to Cloathing now pride and vain curiosity In former times some benefit obliged but now wantonness and pleasure they minded them for covering but now that 's the least part their greedy eyes must be provided with gaudy superfluities as if they made their cloaths for triming and as the less serviceable part only for the sake of other curiosities that must be tack'd upon them although they neither cover shame fence from cold nor distinguish sexes but signally display their wanton fantastick full-fed minds Then the best of Recreations was to serve God be just follow their vocations mind their flocks do good exercise their bodies in such practices as might be sutable to gravity temperance and virtue which now is extended to almost every folly that carries any mark below open and scandalous filth detested of the very Actors when they have done it so much are men degenerated from Adam in his disobedience so much more confident and artificial are they grown in all Impieties yea their minds through custom are become so very insensible of the inconvenience that attends the like follies that what was once meer necessity a badge of shame at best but a meer remedy is now the delight pleasure and recreation of the Age How ignoble is it how ignominious and unworthy of a reasonable Creature That which is indued with understanding sit to contemplate immortality and made an associate for God and Angels should mind a little dust a few shameful raggs inventions of meer folly toyes so apish and fantastick entertainments so dull and earthy that a Rattle a Baby a Hobby-horse a Top are by no means so foolish in a simple Child nor unworthy his thoughts as that the like inventions should exercise the noble mind of man and Image of the great Creator of Heaven and Earth This the very Heathens of old had so clear a prospect of that they detested all such foolery looking upon curiosity of Apparel and that variety of Recreations now in voge and estimation with Christians to be destructive of all good as what more easily stole away the minds of People into wantonness idleness effeminacy and made them only companions for the Beast that perishes witness those famous men Socrates Plato Aristides Cato Epictetus c. who plac'd true honour and satisfaction in nothing below Virtue and Immortality Nay such are the remains of Innocence amongst some Moors and Indians to our times that they not only Traffique in a naked posture but if a stranger call'd a Christian fling out a filthy word it 's customary with them by way of Moral to bring him water to purge his mouth how much do the like virtuous and reasonable Instances accuse the People called Christians of grosse folly and intemperance O that Men and Women would once be so charitable to themselves as to remember whence they came what they are doing and to what they must return that more noble more virtuous more rational and heavenly things may be the matters of their pleasure and satisfaction that they would once be perswaded to believe how inconsistant the folly vanity and conversation they are mostly exercised in really are with the true Nobility of a reasonable Soul and let that just Principle which taught the Heathens teach them lest it be found more tollerable for Heathens than such Christians in the day of account For if their ruder notions and more imperfect sense of things could yet discover so much vanity if their Light condemn'd it and they in obedience thereunto disus'd it it behoveth Christians much more Christ came not to extinguish no but to improve that Knowledge and they who think they need do less now than before had need to act better than they think We therefore hence conclude That the fashions and recreations now in repute are very abusive of their first Institution if ever they had any and that the inconveniencies that have attended them as wantonness idleness pride lust respect of persons witness a Plume of Feathers or a lace Coat in a Countrey-Village nay almost any where what sirring what scraping what bowing though perhaps he be a High-way-man rotten in body and soul too with the rest of the like fruits are inconsistent with the Duty Reason and true Satisfaction of men and absolutely destructive of Wisdom Knowledge Manhood Temperance Industry and whatsoever may render men truly noble and truly good as will more largely be discoursed in its place Reas 3. These things which have been hitherto condemn'd have never been the conversation nor practice of the Holy Men and Women of old times whom the Scriptures recommend for Holy Examples worthy of imitation Abraham Isaac and Jacob were plain men