The law unsealed

from new and fresh convictions on all occasions of the unspeakable obligation the people of God lye under, to him who hath perfectly fulfilled this Law, and in their stead taken on him our bl•ssed self the curse thereof; from excitements and provocations to thankfulness, and from expressing the same in a greater care and solicitude to conform thereto as the rule of Obedie••e; and finally from suitable longings and pantings of Soul to be according to his gracious undertaking i• the covenant of Redemption, put in case to do his▪ will perfectly in our own persons and never any more to transgress this his Law, and to be brought under the full accomplishment of these exceeding great and precious promises, he shall redeem Israel from all his Iniquities; and his Servants shall serve him. O! that we could by what is said persuade all to a more diligent and accurate study of the Law of God, and to the reading and ruminating upon this solid and Soul-searching Tract; and prevail with several persons (which in reason and conscience might be presumed would not be so very hard a business to bring to pass, with men and women professing them selves to be Christians, nay to have immortal Souls that are to be eternally▪ and un•licrabl• •ither happy or miserable) to ••ke but as much time to the reading, perusing and pondering of it and other such pieces, as i• taken to the reading of amorous Book▪ and Romances; To idle visits, and to vain and empty complements; to over-costly, curious, vain, and concea•y dressing, and decking of the body, and setting of the hair now after one mode, now after another (wherein as in other vanities) many men somewhat unmanning themselves, do now contend with Women, partly by their unnaturally nourished Long Hair, and Horrid Bushes of Vanity (as Master Bolton call• them) and partly by their Variously▪ and strangely Metamorphosing modes and colours of Periwicks) which made Tertullian in the 7th. Chapter of his Book De cultu mul. to expostulate with the Women of his time after this manner; What doth this cumbersome dressing of the head contribute to your health? why will ye not suffer your hair to be at rest and lye quiet? which is sometimes tied up, sometimes relaxed and made to hang down, sometimes frizzled and curled, sometimes tied close and pre down; sometimes put under a strict restraint (of plaits, knots, and otherways);