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A67327 Spiritual armour to defend the head from the superfluity of naughtiness being a loving and Christian tender, humbly offered to the pious and serious consideration of the ministers of the Gospel and to all others it may concern : wherein is proved that it is unlawful for women to cut their hair polled or shorn and men to wear the same to cover their heads : together with how men and women ought according to the written law of God and nature to wear their hair. Wall, Thomas. 1688 (1688) Wing W488; ESTC R26304 45,767 52

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othen and as the breach of the Lavv vvas sin in them so it is novv and and as the vvages of sin vvas death to them so it is novv in Men that vvear Womans long hair Womans natural covering and likevvise sin in Women that cut off their hair their effeminate glory and badge and sign of their subjection to Men their Husbands for Men to vvear and the more to be lamented vven the Leaders of the People that should be Guides to poor Souls in the vvay of Righteousness are the Leaders of others in this act of Unrighteousness What good vvill the vain boasting of these Preachers do them in the last day Let them hear vvhat the Great Judge vvill say to them as it is vvritten When ye shall say Lord Mat. 7. 32. Lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast out devils and in thy name have done many wonderful works I profess I never knew you depart from me ye workers of iniquity Joh. 10. 27. for you are not my sheep because my sheep hear my voice and follow me neither have ye my seal for every one that nameth the name of Jesus having this seal let the● depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 2. 19. What then are all gone out of the way in this particular that are called Christians for whatsoever difference are among Men in other matters they almost all agree to suffer their own locks to grow long or else to wear the long hair of Women Now to be plain with all sorts of People that hear the name Christians without respect of Persons or manner of their Religion seeing the matter here treated of is concerning the breach of GOD's Order in Nature onely First The Roman Relegion who make cutting Mens hair short to be a part of their Religious Order so that as Writers Mr. Prinn Vnloveliness of Love-locks p. 11. and his Auther Guaquinus verum Pol. Tom. 1. p. 74. say Pope Benedict the Ninth injoyned all the Polonians upon release of Cazimiz the First their King who had entred into Religion to cut their hair short above their ears and not to suffer it to grow long yet these People how generally do they wear the long locks of Women in Perriwigs and so transgress the Law of God in Nature and other written Laws of God and also the Decree of the Pope and yet they plead for Infallibility and that their Church cannot Err whenas in this particular they are but Hearers of the Word and not Doers of the same all such saith the Apostle James their Religion is in vain Jam. 1. 22. Secondly There are another People that press all People that hear them to mind the Teachings of the Light within because they say this Light is Christ and this Light every Man hath Col. 1. 16. It is granted that as Christ is the Eternal Word of God by whom all things was created is the Light that every Man and Woman hath that is born into the World and this Light is but natural as the Scripture saith The first man is of John. 1. 9. 1 Cor. 15. 46 47. Eph. 5. 14. 2 Tim. 3. 2. Jude v. 19. the earth earthy so that that was not first that is spiritual but that which is natural and after which is spiritual which spiritual Light all Men have not for all Men have not Faith neither have all Men the Spirit of Christ as it is written They separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit Yet these Men who Boast they have the Spirit of Christ why then are they not led by it for as many as are led by the Spirit of Christ they are the Children of God which Spirit teacheth Rom. 8. 14. Man he shall not suffer his locks to grow long and also the Light or Law in Nature telleth them the same for doth not 2 Cor. 11. 14. even Nature it self teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame to him and yet these Men either suffer their locks to grow long or else the very Teachers among them wear the long hair of Women in Perriwigs as well as others among them let these Men for shame no more boast of the Light within seeing they know not the Teachings of the Light of Nature unto whom it may be justly said as Christ said to the Jews that rejected Christ the Light of Life without and he written Word of God that taught them that he was Christ the Light of Life John 8. 24. which if they believed not Job 8. 24. they should die in their sins the Light in them was Darkness how great then is that darkness in these Men that boast of the Matth. 6. 23. Light within and have not the Light in Nature to teach them it is a shame for a Man to wear long hair much more a shame for them to wear the long hair of Women in Perriwigs no nor yet the Women-Teachers among them have not so much Light to teach that Men should not unman themselves to become effeminate in coveting their Glory in wearing on their heads the long hair of Women Womans natural covering so that these have not yet the Light of Nature teaching in this thing but have also rejected the Word of the Jer. 8. 9. Lord What Wisdom is in them as saith the Lord. Thirdly To all other Christians who in Word do acknowledge the written Word of God to be the Rule to walk by both in the matter of Faith and Worship and also in things natural yet in this particular they are but Hearers of the Word and not Doers of the same and so deceive themselves in that they plead that upon some cases a Man may wear the long hair of Women in Perriwigs Their plea is to this effect You know in the late Persecution how the Ministers of the Gospel and many other principal Men in the Congregations have been sought for by the Informers to be taken and carried to Prison so that they did wear Perrwigs to disguise themselves if it had not been for that they would not have wore them Ans We are taught by the Doctrine of the Gospel that we may not do evil that good may come for a good Tree Rom. 3. 8. bringeth nor forth corrupt Fruit saith Christ and seeing it hath pleased God to give us an unexpected deliverance so Luk. 6. 43. that we may say as Judah did of old when the Lord turned again the Captivity of Sion we were like them that dream Psal 126. 1 2 3. Isai 49. 23. Rev. 12. 16 16. The Lord hath done great things for ur in giving us a King according to his pomife to be a Nursing Father so that the Earth hath helped the Woman and opened her mouth in the Kings Declaration and swallowed up the Flouds of Penal Statutes and whatsoever else the Dragon cast out of his mouth by his Instruments to carry away the Woman the Church of Christ
in deserveth not death temporal and eternal So then if the Minister do not declare the whole Counsel of God according to his written Word and the People live in sin If any are taken away in his sin his Bloud God will require at the Watch mans hand By this we see why Christ said to Peter Ezek. 33. 6. John 20. so often Lovest thou me feed my sheep feed my sheep feed my sheep this is the Pastors duty and love to Christ the neglect is both a hating of Christ and the Souls he hath taken charge of as 't is written Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flock and look well to thy hards Thou shalt not hate thy Prov. 27. 23. Brother in thine heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy Neighbour and not susser sin upon him lest thou bear sin for him And not only concerning a Brother is this care to be taken but if Lev. 19. 17. Mat. 18. the whole Church do sin in doing any thing against any of the Commandments of the Lord concerning things which should not be done and are guilty the whole Church must repent thereof unto the Lord and to that end are the Faithful to Hos 2. 1 2. Rev. 3. 4. plead with their Mother as the few Names in Sardis did having the Faithful in Israel for their example Now consider whether the sinful shame to Mans Nature to wit Men in wearing long hair yea the long hair of Women and Women wearing their hair shorn or polled be not an abomination to the Lord whenas God created Man polled or shorn in respect of his hair and commanded him so to keep and wear it And Woman was created with long hair and is charged she shall not cut or wear her hair like to Man But on the clean contrary Men wear Womans long hair and Women wear short hair and this is suffered in almost every Congregation that say they are the Churches of God. Now what is this but such a sin yea of a high nature reckoned among the most grievous sins but because 't is such a sin wherein Men and Women have changed the natural use into that which is against Nature A sin of that nature never heard of to be suffered in any true Church of God and that this sin is so generally spread that it is as a Leprosse which if not speedily reformed and removed out of the Church the Lord will now as of old Abhor the excellency of Jacob and hate his Amos 6. 9. Exek 9. 4. Palaces for the wickedness of their inventions as it is written I will cast them out of my house I will love them no more And to them that mourn in the Churches to see these as like aabominations and have used means to have it redressed and it is not reformed they are commanded to come out from among them and touch not the unclean thing and the Lord will receive them and be a Father to them and they shall be 2 Cor. 6. 16 17. his Sons and Daughters These shall find more comfort with a dinner of herbs where love is to God and their Neighbour than a stalled Oxe and hatred therewith for of such 't is written Prov. 15. 17. Mal. 9. 3. Mat. 18. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and a Book of remembrance was written for them that thought on his name For where if but two or three are gathered together in his Name he will be in the midst of them to bless them that whosoever toucheth them toucheth the Apple of his Exod. 20. 2. Psal 50. 16. Rev. 3. 4. Exod. 23. 2. Psal 26. 5. Eye To all other the Lord saith What hast thou to do to take my Word into thy mouth that hatest to be reformed So then it is the few Names that walk with Christ in white for they are worthy that obey the voice of the Lord as 't is written Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil and with David do hate the Congregation of evil dores and will not sit with the wicked for though hand joyn in hand the wicked shall not be unpunished By all which it appeareth that as in the Apostacy after the Apostles decease the sin was chiefly in the Stars or Ministers that fell from their heavenly profession to an earthly whereby all disorder was countenanced so that the godly which departed from the evil make themselves a prey yet the trial of their Faith was more precious than gold for we have seen how the suffering Christians were as Lights in the Rev. 12. 1. Prov. 4. 18. Dan. 12. 3. Phil. 2. 15. prov 5. 22. World who rather shined more unto the perfect day when other that wandred after the Beast were in the Kingdom of Darkness holden with the cords of their own sin so that the Sun and Air was darkened in them that they saw it no shame as in the Apostacy in this day no Men see it no shame for to have faces as the faces of men and hair as the hair of women However it pleased God by means of the godly aforementioned to wit the suffering Christians whose paths shineth as aforesaid more and more unto the perfect day that when the Nations were overspread in Mens wearing long hair the shame to Nature Theophilus the Emperour See Mr. Prinn uncomliness of long locks p. 11. Mr. Speed History of Great Britain l. 9. c. 4. numb 54. p. 44. 2. as Writers say enacted a Law that all Men should cut their hair short and that no Roman should suffer it to grow below his neck The like did King Henry the First of this Nation who commanded that Men should cut their hair short in this Nation and no doubt the King himself gave his Subjects a good example together with the Chief Magistrates and likewise the Teachers of the People in that day so that there was a general Reformation in Mens cutting and wearing their hair polled or shorn according to the Command of the King of Kings as afore-shewed and this Reformation continued in this Nation for near five hundred years until Ezek. 44. 20. 1 Cor. 11. 6 14. the latter end of the Reign of King James the First so that some yet alive can remember if a Malefactor was brought before a Judge at Assize or Justices at Sessions if he had long hair they commanded it to be cut off so careful were all Magistrates and Fathers and Masters in Families to see both old and young Men even to the Children that they had their hair cut short So likewise all the Reformed Ministers and Churches were so careful that they would not admit a Member to be joyned to them is his hair was not according to Gods Order polled or shorn So that if the Churches look not to see the Moral Law kept as well as the Law of Faith rightly believed the Apostle James tells us What doth it profit Jam. 2. 14.