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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

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