The law unsealed

and sometimes suffered to escape and slide out from that restraint, and to flitter and fly at random: And ye affix moreover to your heads I know not what enormities of hair sewed and woven now this way, now that way; i• you be not ashamed of the enormities, be ashamed at least of the defilement, least ye be found to adorn and clothe a holy and Christian head with the spoil and pillage of the hair of an others head that is a filth• person, or it may be of a notorious offender & condemned to Hell. What would he have said of some Women among us, who being displeased not only with their own, but with all colours of hair that God hath made to grow on the heads of reasonable Creatures abominably affect to affix to their fore heads the hair of Beasts. (High extravagances of this age almost in all ranks of persons, and never at a greater height then since God began to contend with us, and to call us to lay aside our ornaments, that He might know what to do unto us▪ many alas take more ⟨image 10⟩time in these day• to busk and dress, and to look in a glass for that end in one week than they do in • year, ye• it may be in many years, to look into this glass of the Law of the Lord to discover the many spots and blemishes wherewith their Souls are pitifully deformed, or into such Treatises as this, whereby the dust of misapprehensions of the meaning of the Law is wiped off, and it made easily and at first view to give a just representation of what manner of persons we are); To drinking drunk, and healthing, or drinking and pledging healths, prohibited and much condemned in the Ancient Church particularly by Basil, and Augustine, on this very ground, that they were the invention of the Devil, and the observations or relics of Infidels and Pagans: To tippling and four-hoursing, a conscience▪wasting and Soul-weakening practise, though with too many (and with not a few from whom better things might be expected) but little stuck at; To Carding and Dicing, which Dice-playing hath been condemned by many Fathers by several Councils, by some Imperial statutes, by almost all Protestant and by many Popish Divines, yea some Councils have appointed dice players to be excommunicated;