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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	spirit_n	word_n	8,255	5	4.2520	3	true

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

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