A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

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; if you be not ashamed of the enormities, be ashamed at le ••t of the defilement, least ye be found to adorn and cloth a holy and Christian head with the spoil and pill •ge of the hair of an others head that is a filthy person, or it may be of a notorious offender and 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 aff •ct 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 time in these days to busk and dress, and to look in a glass for that end in one week than they do in a year, yea 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 rippling 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 Dyeing, 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;

and somtimes suffered to escape and slide out from that restraint, and to flitter and fly at random: And ye assix moreover to your heads I know not what enormities of hair sewed and woven now this way, now that way; if you be not ashamed of the enormities, be ashamed at le ••t of the defilement, least ye be found to adorn and cloath a holy and Christian head with the spoil and pill ge of the hair of an others head that is a filthy person, or it may be of a notorious offender and 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 aff ct to affix to their fore-heads the hair of Beasts. (High extravagancies of this age almost in all ranks of persons, and never at a greater hight 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 alass take more time in these days to busk and dress, and to look in a glass for that end in one week than they do in a year, yea 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 reliques of Infidels and Pagans; To ripling and four-hoursing, a consciense-wasting and Soul-weakning practise, though with too many (and with not a few from whom better things might be expected) but little stuck at; To Carding and Dyeing, 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;