4d then make man a meet help, f/0ns, but neither is this true ; for in many Nati of Na. Fg and then the woman, that ſhe | at the utmoſt length. Ochers underſtand Homer gg Year hair pit it is a Rule in Reaſon, Thar and judgment of that natural Reaſon which ſince wah light ble r perſon or thing, 1s man. But this muſt be the ſame in all men, and we hoy aki rho king for which the other 1s made, men donot judge this ſhameful. Others therefore Ne that all to | ; underſtand a common Cuſtom, which (as they hy) a—_ ler bec: were a ſecond Nature, ſo the term is taken, Rom. 11. » " mk, cannot ſo lignifie here ; for there neicher is, nor ever Was Fry 8 __ univerſal cuſtom in any place, that none in it wore lons uch an ape 122d is here to be underſtood (as fome think) thers by Nature here underſtand Naturs! inclination. but ns del in ſign that ſhe is under the power of her | this be the ſenſe; for there is in ſome men, as well pp ce " 2 he ſign 1s |nagural propenſion and inclination to wear their hai —_— e pl ich is called ,;length ar at exceſſ;y Placi Ark, which is called lengths, Orhers here by Nature underſtand the Difirews ;c ., Sex, as they take this word to be uſed, Row. 1. 26, the diſt; 4 thy 0” of the Sexes teacheth us this, and this ſeemerh to he = w oy probableſenſe of this Text. The Apoſtle arguing that — ha nderſtand |and female Sex, are artificially diſtinguiſhed by garments, 4.1. ing tb ing ofher power in him, teſtifying it, by covering her | was the Will of God they ſhould be fo, fo they ſhould al ” , —_ wg. vm by the —_ of their hair: and it was no le; oa = or a man to we 1 ic 11 | like a woman. ENG We woman, than $0 Wear geran ſupple {erſand God himſelf, who by the Miniſtry of Angels . OC cabs RT ilkirordes, 203 por chis Lew ypon the|, I 5 Bur if a woman have long hair, it is glory, manne1 o her: for her hair is given her for a | i cauſe h ing d. corer. the rem among the Jews.) Qthers here by Angels under-| 4 But he faith, if s woman hath long hair, it is glory te be | won Long hair is comely for the woman, and accounted to by fors Thar th wg omactes God hath given her her hair for « cover. Lord's Ing. ere have been Books written about 10n tiful.ro unchait thoughts, 2c. Bur the moſt and beſt Interpreters |lawfulneſs of mens wearing CO HO In ove underſtand here by Angels, the good Angels ; for the Apoſtle would !lengths of mens hair, the ſubſtance of which were wy hungry v : [tranſcribe here. That which in theſe verſes ſeemeth to be na the Lord aQtions ; and ſo it teackerh us, That | mended to us, as the Will of God, in this matter, is: 1. Tha Church h | men and women ſhould fo order their hair, asby it to preſerverhs drinking. aſpen ns SE diſtinCtion of Sexes. 2. That men ſhould not wear their hair after flom in G cent inthe Afſemblies ofpeople for Religious Wor-{ the manner of women, either diſhevelled 5 F . \ _ ; iſhevelled, or curled, and tricked ome thin 1 the perſons, carriage, and demeanour the ſenſe of | up about cheir heads, which ſpeaks too much of an unmanly and for their 1 effeminate temper, much more was what became not Chriſtian, bada libe And if this be forbidden men, as to the uſe of their own hair, theirs,and they ſtand concerned to conſider whether ic be lawful forthem atwhich b thus to wear and adorn themſelves with the hair of other men and red away women. | Way,and h 16 But * if any man ſeem to be contentious e, we, =," ' » , . ] _ no ſuch cuſtom f, * neither the churches d called Je 8. : was that w| © Ifany man hath a mind to quarrel our of a love to ſhew hi cauſe they | wic in diſcourſing what may be ſaid on the other fide, oc outof: be firſt ace x deſire tohold up a Party, and contradit&t us, f, we have no fuch Lord's Supp ſhculd be nmcual helpsone to another. Or elſe the ſenſe| cuſtom of womens praying, or propheſying wirh their headsws f the adminif covered,or mens praying, or propheſying with their headscovered, ff bring j Or we have no ſuch cuſtom of contending for theſe lirtle frivoon ori we al rhings. g neither any ofthe Churches of God ; And good Chr. nſtirurion, ſtians, in their pratices, ought, in things of this nature, to ha which Can be an eyeand regard to the cuſtom of their own Church, and a!ſo of 7 rms; other Chriſtian Churches. Thus the Apoſtle cloſeth thisdiſcourt, er that T's and- proceedeth in the next vetſes to tax other abuſes which wee Y ations. Tn crept into this famous Church. [UCe of his 17 Now in this that I declare unto you, | praik yo 21 For not +, that you come together, not for the better, ut om ſuppe: for the worle z, rmnken «, h I come now to another thing of greater conſequence , 308. ? There Wh which I muſt much blame you ; I am fo far from being able ry VZ, commend or approve of what you do, that I muſt forit ſmartlyr LR; hada r fle& upon you. ; That when you meet in your Church-Aſſembio Wp The for the performance of your religious Duries, to pray, preach, i ff) _—_
knees ; the man therefore hath no'Teaſon co deſpiſe, and roo much to trample upon the woman : 4 and all theſe things are of God , by the wiſe orderingand diſpoſing of God ; ſo as neither hath the man, by reaſon ofhis Pretogative, in being firſt created, and the end for which the woman was created, any cauſe to inſult and tri- umph over the woman : neither hath rhe woman any cauſe,by rea- ſon of her Prerogarive, that the an is by her,any cauſe to triumph over the man, but both of them ought to look upon themſelves as having their Prerogatives from God, andin the uſe of them to be- have themſelves according to the Willof God, behaving themſelves in theirreſpeCive ſtations, as ir is the Will of God they ſhould be. have themiclves, the woman being ſubjeC& to the man, and teſtify. ing ſuch ſubjeCtion by all the ſigns of it,and the man carrying him- ſelf rowards the woman, as he who is the image and glory of God.
13 Judge in your ſeJves; Is ic comely that a wo- man pray unto God uncovered ? 6. b No man is truly and thorowly convinced of an error, till he
be convitted by by his own Conſcience. It is therefore very uſual in holy Wrir, for God by his ſacred Penmen, to make Appeals unto mensown Conſciences, and put them to judge within themſelves,
or receive the holy Sacrament,you ſo meer and behave your ln hal Supper be