Coma berenices; or, The hairy comet; being a prognostick of malignant influences from the many blazing stars wandring in our horizon.

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Title: Coma berenices; or, The hairy comet; being a prognostick of malignant influences from the many blazing stars wandring in our horizon.
Publication: London, :: [s.n.],; Printed in the Year 1674.
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Subject terms: Bible. -- N.T. -- Timothy, 1st, II, 9 -- Sermons.; Bible. -- N.T. -- Peter, 1st, III, 3 -- Sermons.; Costume -- England -- 17th century -- Sermons.; Wigs -- England -- Sermons.; Clothing and dress -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Sermons, English -- 17th century.
Cite this Item: "Coma berenices; or, The hairy comet; being a prognostick of malignant influences from the many blazing stars wandring in our horizon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A80201.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.

Wigs
- equal in expence to a Tax or Subsidy — P. 1.
- fruits of the Tree of Pride — P. 4
Priest's Wigs buzled & artificial — P. 8
Wigs. —
- worn
  - 1 as a defence in time of danger — P. 10
  - 2 as a covering for national defects P. 11
    - (not worn by Elijah) — d^o.
  - 3 as ornaments — d^o
- Invented by Satan — P. 12
- the wearing of them
  - a Sin — P. 17
  - a reproach to Providence — P. 19
  - Proscribed
    - by the Heathens by the light of Nature — P. 23
    - by the ancient lights of the Church — P. 24
      - by TERTULLIAN. CLEMINS. IEROM — P. 25
- Flags of Vanity — P. 25
- Works of darkness — P. 26
- worse than baldness & sackcloth — P. 28