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A86182	A looking-glasse for women, or, A spie for pride: shewing the unlawfulnesse of any outward adorning of any attire of haire, either in laying forth the haire, or in crisping of the haire, or in broidered haire in all women, but especially in godly women, declared fully by the Scripture. Also those Scriptures and carnall objections answered which are seemingly made for it.	T. H.	1644 (1644)	Wing H139; Thomason E2_18; ESTC R3679	10,568	16

modester in their attire of haire but more especially godly women Seventhly you may object and say oh but all this while you have but drawn it out by consequences that vvomens laying forth their hair is a sin you have brought never a place of Scipture flat against it and therefore it may be your ovvn brain meaning more then the meaning of the Scipture Ans Although there is no such place of Scripture as this thou shalt not lay thy hair forth yet doubtles though it vvas not spoken against by God himself yet in so much as it vvas spoken against by the Apostle Paul vvho had the Spirit of God vvhatsoever he spoke then vvas the minde of God for vvhatsoever that vvas spoken against the minde of God had been a sin but such a one as Paul vvho had such a measure of the spirit could not sin in such a case as to speak his ovvn judgement vvhen as it vvas not the mind of God therefore it must needs be the minde of God that laying forth of hair is unlawful in that he used the apostle Paul Peter to minde us of it Eightly you may object and say oh but my birth requires is and the company I keep withall daily requires it or else I shall not be fitting for such companie Ans first vvill you prefer your naturall birth before your spirituall birth Secondly if you can discerne vvhat a naturall birth requires in your attire of haire why cannot you as well then discerne by the rule of the Apostle what a spirituall birth requires which is plainly discovered to be against your laying forth the haire Thirdly as for the company you are with according to your ranke you must not be guided more by their rule then by the patterne of the word as the Lord hath put a difference between them and you in their soules condition so the Lord hath put a difference between you and them in your attire Ninthly you may object and say why may not I as well go in this attire of haire as to go in gold and silver seeing that is lawfull for me to do if it be according to my ranke and place Answ For your gold and silver it is lawfull for to weare by such persons in whom the Lord is so pleased to bestow this worldly wealth upon as you may read in the booke of Exodus and in Job 32. 11. but they that weare their haire out have no rule for it but a flat rule against it Tenthly you may object and say oh but God requires that our adorning should be decent and comely and I never wore my haire but decent civill and comely Answ There can be nothing said to be decent and comely which is displeasing unto God and it is as undecent in Gods sight for a woman to wear their haire out as it is undecent in mans sight for a woman for to go in mans apparell and surely the Apostle Paul and Peter would never have troubled themselves so much in speaking of it if it had not been both displeasing unto God and man nay the Lord would not threaten such a judgement on them for it that did abuse their haire as you may read Esay 3. 24. instead of well set haire baldnesse read but out all the words in that verse and you shall finde that in every particular wherein they offended and displeased God the Lord sent them a particular judgement for it as you may read instead of sweet smell a stinke implying it was displeasing instead of beauty burning or tanned so that for every particular sin the Lord had a judgement for it for no doubt that the Lord was not displeased with their naturall beauty for then he should despise his own creature that he made but that artificiall beauty which they put upon themselves and so we must understand the Lord sent a judgement of baldnesse upon those women that had well set hair not because it was his own workmanship but because they abused their haire c. Eleaventhly oh but this dressing in my haire becometh me more better then my dressing in cloathes doth and therefore I weare and for no other end Answ First take heed that this fashion blinde not your eyes that you cannot see the uglinesse in it for pride and selfe love blindes one that they cannot see that which another seeth in them to be unseemly Secondly do not perswade your selfe it is a seemly fashion best becomming of you for if you do but look upon it you are in your apparell more like an Hermophrodite that is to say halfe man and halfe woman that is when as you shall be like to a woman downward in your apparell and you should be like to a man upward in your Hat and haire Thirdly your wearing of hair forth is no such comely dressing because it takes away that modesty and shamefastnesse which would if you were godly women appear in you and to say the truth those seeme to be more viragines or men like women that do werae it then modest grave and holy women Twelfthly oh but you may say though you may prove it is unlawfull for a woman to lay forth her haire yet I hope it is not unlawfull for one to go close covered wearing some lockes of haire forth doing it only for the setting forth of my person as I do weare my dressing for that end Answ First if it be unlawfull to do the greater it must needs follow to be unlawfull to do the lesse if it be unlawfull for a man to sweare a great oath it is as unlawful for a man to swear a little oath my reason is this because the least sin in Gods sight is as hainous unto him as the greatest sin because in the least sin we do blemish the Image of God though in the greater sins it be in a greater degree and truly a small sin given by a Saint unto God is more hainouser then a greater sin given by a wicked man because he that doth not the will of God ignorantly shall not be excused but he that knoweth how to do the will of God and doth it not he shall be left to be punished without excuse Luke 12. 47 48. Secondly to weare your locks forth it comes under the same admonition as the Apostle Peter speakes of and outward adorning and under the Apostle Pauls rule of an immodest Attire not beseeming gracious holy women professing godlinesse and therefore utterly unlawfull Thirdly it is an object of pride to set it a working in those that do weare it though perhaps all present may not do it for that end I instance thus you will say it were a very unbeseeming thing for a man to pray unto God to give him power over his lust of uncleannesse and yet you to see him daily to use lascivious pictures and wanton gestures truely it is one and the same case in godly women who prayeth daily unto God for power over their sinnes and among all the rest prayeth against the sin of pride and against all those Instruments which may be a means of stirring up of it in them and yet shall daily Locke forth their haire which is not onely as great an instrument to stir up pride in them if there should be none as it giveth cause unto other godly persons to be but pride it selfe and truely in conclusion if there were no sin to be found in it yet in so much as it hath been this many yeers such a great affence given unto so many godly men and women which by their wearing of it hath been a great cause to Censure them though it may be they never deserved it if it were but onely upon this ground and none other it were enough to beat you from your pleading for it and to lay it down as a thing both offensive unto God and man and though your knowledge may be very much I know Paul had as much as you and yet his spirit came so low as you may read 1 Cor. 8. 13. Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend I will eat no flesh while the world standeth which was a greater matter to abstain from that food which was so nourishing to his body then for you to lay in your head of haire or locke of haire and to be close Covered seeing you have a Rule In case you give by any meanes any offence to a weak Brother or Sister and so by this meanes make them to offend that Great God to whom be praise through Jesus Christ our Saviour and Redeemer for ever world without end Amen FINIS

A Looking-Glasse FOR WOMEN OR A Spie for Pride SHEWING The unlawfulnesse of any outward adorning of any attire of Haire either in laying forth the Haire or in crisping of the Haire or in broidered Haire in all Women but especially in godly Women declared fully by the Scripture Also those Scriptures and carnall Objections answered which are seemingly made for it Prov. 22. 23. Buy the Truth and sell it not Col. 2. 6. As you have therefore received the Lord Jesus Christ so walke you in him London Printed for R. W. 1644. To the Christian READER I Have a long time sate down in my thoughts to admire awhile to see the strain of the world how that there is nothing wanting in them to make up their destruction they will take paines to be drunk to whore to cozen to lie to steale to murder to be proud and a thousand sins more which they are faithfull unto him to do who raignes in them as a Prince in all the Children of disobedience yea they would rather sink down presently into hell then to leave one sin and the reason is because they walk according to the principles which rule in them And truly upon the sad consideration of this particular to see and observe that wicked men should be so at every command to him in whom they serve and do walk according to their own destruction It caused me to consider how that godly men and women had need to walk according to the pattern which Iesus Christ hath left us who ruleth in all his Elect as their only King Priest and Prophet and because my love is so dear unto the Saints that I would have them walk according to the rule which Iesus Christ hath left unto his Saints in his Word It pleased the Lord to stir up my heart to consider upon the lawfulnesse or unlawfulnesse of wearing any outward attire of haire in women whether laying forth or any other attire else and found it by the Word to be utterly unlawfull against the the minde and rule of the Apostle Peter and of the Apostle Paul and one great reason which made me wave into this work was because that I saw many godly women do now adayes weare it yea those whom we call Ministers wives who should have given better example unto other women besides many other godly women of particular Congregations who have given up their names unto Christ both in heart and mouth Covenanting to walk with Iesus Christ among his members in all the known truths of God as it shall be from day to day revealed unto them by his spirit from the Word of God Therefore I finding this outward attire of any outward adorning of haire to be unlawfull in any woman whatsoever but more especially among godly women Considering likewise that many learned godly men have taken but little notice of it who might have written for more better then my weak capacity am able to understand Considering likewise that any godly man or woman would not live in any known sin if that they knew it Vpon these three considerations it moved me to declare my minde touching the unlawfulnesse of laying forth the hair in women and truly I should not have so fully declared my minde unto the world if I had not found the spirits of godly women affected to it so much as they are Therefore desiring such whom it may concern to accept of these few lines or short epitomy as the tenderings and earnings of my love unto all those that desire to live godly in this present evill world and in their willing acceptation of it will my love be requited not looking at any gain hereby except it be the calumnies and reproaches which may be of my friends as well as of my enemies but I shall wave whatsoever comes by as looking more at the good which I intended thereby then at the evill which may come upon it desiring the Lord that he would direct all our hearts both of men and women so to vvalk that vve may see Iesus Christ in all our vvalkings Your servant in Jesus Christ T. H. A Looking-Glasse FOR VVOMEN OR A SPIE for PRIDE SIn commonly carries a faire glosse with it and I have observed that the divel when he would present a sin unto any godly man or woman he never presents it in the same shape as it is in its own nature but maskes it over with some seeming pretence or colour for it I could instance it divers wayes wherein he doth it but because we are upon this subject only namely to prove its utterly unlawful for any woman to go in any outward adorning of attire of haire in laying it forth in any fashion whatsoever under that seeming pretence of a covering and that it was given to them for an ornament to deck themselves withall which to say plainly is but pride and cometh from him who is the author of all sin Therefore I shall begin this worke from that portion of Scripture which the Apostle Peter hath laid down as a pattern for every godly woman to walke by which is out of the first of Peter 2. 3. in these words Whose adorning let it be not that outward adorning as of plaiting the haire These words are a direction by the Apostle setting forth the carriage of a Christian woman in her outward adorning toward the gaining in of an unbelieving husband as if the Apostle should have said you that have husbands in the state of nature and you being in the state of grace your conversation of life should be such while they beholding of it being coupled with feare might be wun without the word by the conversation of the wife which cannot be saith the Apostle in vaine and outward aadornings and in the hidden man of the heart but there will be such a conversation that every thing will be answerable unto it both in your words gesture attire or outward adorning as if he should have said be your speech never so gracious and your gesture never so meeke yet if your outward adorning be light or gaudy what a contradiction will here be between light and darknesse and we know that light and darknesse can never dwell together untill they be agreed Amos 3. 3. Now saith the Apostle in the consideration of this what a hinderance will it be in the drawing in of a yoke fellow here unto Christ when as he shall see that you are halfe for God and halfe for the world when as he shall see your speech and gesture is after the minde of God and your attire and outward adorning to be after the fashions of the world which is contrary to the glorious light of God which once if the Lord be pleased to let it shine in men or women it will shine in every part of their conversation now you cannot see the glorious light of Gods truth to shine in your outward adorning of attire of haire as in your speech and gesture not that my meaning

is that you should place any godlinesse in it but that it may shew forth to the world that godlinesse is in you and truly the Apostle Paul would not have bid us fashion not our selues according to the world if that the Spirit of God by him had not put a difference both between our speeches and gesture and outward adornings to testifie unto the world that you are such whom he hath chosen out of the world And truly those godly women that do use this outward adorning of laying forth the haire a man can hardly know them from the women of the world nay and moreover to other godly Christian men and women that hear that such as are Christians that do were it they not knowing of them they will be but unto them as seeming Christians and they will ground it from this that if the heart were stable and sound their attire of laying forth their haire would not be light and gaudy because that Christ saith Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks Mat. 12. 34. that is whatsoever cometh forth out of the heart from man or woman either in word or action it doth declare the heart to be more holy or lesse holy that is seeming holy or reall holy and this was that which the Apostle James drove at Jam. 2.17 18 19 20 21. that godly men should declare their faith by their works as if he should have said though it be not workes that you can be saved by yet is it such that must give that testimony to the world that you are such whom the Lord hath bin pleased for to call from among them that is you cannot be a believer and a drunkerd too a believer and a proud person too a believer and a wanton person too in your words gesture and attire for this end he hath made a difference between you and the world that you should walke more holier before him which must be seen in your outward adorning as well as in your speech and gesture Now that we may see the odiousnesse of this unlawfull attire the better it will appeare in these foure particulars First your outward adorning or laying forth the haire is a light attire for the Prophet Esay brings it in among the rabble of those particulars which made up a light gesture as you may reade Esay 3. 24. Secondly laying forth of the haire or any such like outward adorning it is a vain attire it is of no substantiall use but to please the fancy it is so far from drawing men to see God in you by it as it provokes them more to lust by seeing such weare it Thirdly it is a proud attire it was brought in among those particulars of pride in the place we mentioned before Esay 3. 24. as a judgement on those particularly that had misused their haire in these words Instead of well set haire baldnesse as if the Lord should have spoke by the Prophet you that have abused your haire by taking more delight in it then in me I will take this Idoll out of your way and instead of well set haire place baldnesse Fourthly it is an unseemly attire not befitting grave and holy women and this will appeare also to be a truth if we shall consider if it be unseemly for a woman for to go in mans apparrell how much more is it unseemly for grave and holy Christian women to go in Strumpets attire and take ye no exception at this kinde of terme for the Apostle Saint Paul speakes of the unseemlinesse of it especially in godly women as you may reade 1 Tim. 2. 9. where it is said that women adorn themselves in modest apparell with shamefacednesse and sobriety and he begins first with broidered haire as if it were both an immodest and a bold and audacious attire and do you not think because the Apostle speaks of broidered haire and I being against laying forth the haire that this is not to the purpose I suppose it is for it was that fashion of haire that those women did use in them dayes as you know in every age fashions do alter and this your laying forth the haire though it be the fashion now comes under that and the Apostle would have reproved it as the other if it had been worne in them dayes as an immodest attire very unseemly becoming holy gracious women Secondly if we do but consider those dangerous inconveniencies which doth attend this outward adorning of attire of haire it will appear unto you to be utterly unlawfull First in regard of themselves this outward adorning of attire of haire will prove very inconvenient because it is one of the greatest instruments that Satan hath to set pride on worke we commonly say a Peacocke is a proud creature and our reason is not taken from the turning of his head for so other creatures do but from the variety of coulers of his feathers which we suppose is the cause of the turning of his head and hence comes that old phrase to be as proud as a Peacocke and truly such godly women that go in such a gaudy attire it must needs be a great instrument of stirring up of pride in them because is is so neere unto the eye and it will be most an end upon it Secondly this attire of laying forth the haire it will be a dangerous inconvenience in regard of others two wayes either unto godly persons or else unto wicked men First this kinde of outward adorning will be a very inconuenient attire in regard of godly men and women and because it will be one great cause of their judging of them to be seeming holy when as it may be they may be really holy and so by this means it may cause the love that should be among the Saints to be abated and instead of love to grow strange unto each other Secondly this kinde of outward adorning of laying forth the haire is a very inconvenient attire in regard of wicked men to because it will rather provoke them to lust by beholding of such then by seeing any thing in that attire to draw them unto any good Now having discovered the unlawfulnesse of any outward adorning of attire of haire in all women but especially among godly women I now am come to answer these objections which are seemingly made for it The first objection is this oh but your ground worke which you have builded all this while upon is a rotten foundation and not taken in that sence which you understand it for to be for read you but the minde of the Apostle in the place of Peter 1.3.3 and you shall finde that his meaning is cleane contrary in that he saith let not your conversation lie in your outward adorning of plaiting the haire or of wearing apparell but let it be in the hidden man of the heart even the ornament of a quiet and meeke spirit implying thus much not that we should not lay our haire out but that we should not