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so are those covetous self-loving Professors, and Church-Members in these evil Days, witness the Periwigs and Petticoats of London Professors, and Sermon hearers in this City. Doth not even Nature it self teach you, that if ⟨p. 88⟩a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him, 1 Cor. 11.14. Yea it is a shame indeed for men professing Godliness to wear such long Periwigs of Women's hair, as some men do. What an abomination is it unto the Lord, to see an hoary Head covered with long hair, (that hath been cut off from a Whores Head) when he is praying to God, and worshipping the All-seeing God, Heb. 4.13. All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. And doth not the holy Scripture teach Women professing godliness, when they come to pray and worship Gods, to adorn themselves in modest Apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broidered hair—or costly Array, 1 Tim. 2.8, 9, 10, 11, 12. & 1 Pet. 3.3, 4, 5, 6. And more especially in days of Humiliation and Tribulation (even at such a time as this, which is indeed a perilous time. Read Exod. 33.4, 5, 6, 7. & Isa. 3.16-24. Another Character of those Apostates of the last Days, is Truce-breakers, [Greek or Hebrew], Covenant-breakers; such as do break their Oaths, Vows, Promises, Engagements. Oh how guilty have some ⟨p. 89⟩Courtiers, Counsellors, Soldiers, Mariners, Citizens, Professors, and Church-Members been of those heinous sins! Read the Army-Remonstrance 1648. and that Book entitled, A Looking-glass for the ARMY; in which Book you may find collected the Vows, Promises and Covenants, that those Sword-bearing Professors made, and several of them brake: To say nothing of the Scots and English Covenants so solemnly taken in their Parish-Churches. Many Professors have broken God's Covenant, as Israel did,