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Iudge in your selues, whether it be comely that a woman praye vnto God, bare hea∣ded. Doeth not nature it selfe teache you, that it is a shame for a manne, yf he haue long heare? and a prayse to a womanne, yf she haue long heare? For her heare is geuen to her to couer her withall. Yf any manne luste to striue, we haue no suche custome, neither the congregacions of God.
But to returne agayne to the mattier, wherwith I beganne, yf yet with so manye argumentes I sufficientlye proue not, howe vncomelye a thyng it is for a womanne openlye to praye bare headed, let euen euerie manne after his owne iudgemente and reason weyghe the mattier, for I thynke no manne is so verye a blockeheade that hathe loste the iudgemente of na∣ture. Doeth not nature her selfe teache you that it is shame for a manne, to haue long heare lyke a womanne? And contrarie, that it is to a wo∣manne a furniture to haue long heare? to whome of nature is gyuen a more thicke and more large growyng of heare, than to the manne, that she, whiche is subiecte to her husbande, mighte not at any tyme lacke a vayle. And this haue I shewed you, what I thynke more seemely. If anye in this mattier luste contenciouslye to defende his opinion, lette hym take his pleasure, so that he knowe, that neither haue we any suche custome, nor o∣ther congregacions of god. Whether it for you be meete to swarue bothe from your Apostles rules and exaumples, and from the custome of other congregacions, bee ye iudges. Lesse hurte were it, yf ye in suche poyntes a∣greed, synce they bee but externe mattiers, nor make so muche to the furthe∣raunce of Gospellike godlynesse. But this I earnestlye require of you, and am offended, that ye kepe it not, beyng a thyng whiche I taught you.