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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41073	VVomens speaking justified, proved and allowed of by the Scriptures all such as speak by the spirit and power of the Lord Iesus : and how women were the first that preached the tidings of the resurrection of Jesus and were sent by Christ's own command before he ascended to the Father, John 20:17.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.; Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702. A touch-stone.	1667 (1667)	Wing F643; ESTC R29424	14,834	17

Saints and the wicked shall keep silence in darkness for in his own might shall no man be strong the Lords Adversaries shall be destroyed and out of Heaven shall he thunder upon them the Lord shall judge the ends of the World and shall give power to his King and exalt the Horn of his Anointed Thus you may see what a woman hath said when old Ely the Priest thought she had been drunk and see if any of you blind Priests that speak against Womens Speaking can Preach after this manner who cannot make such a Sermon as this woman did and yet will make a trade of this Woman and other womens words And did not the Queen of Sheba speak that came to Solomon and received the Law of God and preached it in her own Kingdom and blessed the Lord God that loved Solomon and set him on the throne of Israel because the Lord loved Israel for ever and made the King to do Equity and Righteousness And this was the lang age of the Queen of Shebae And see what glorious expressions Queen Hester used to comfort the People of God which was the Church of God as you may read in the book of Hester which caused joy and gladness of heart among all the Jews who prayed and worshipped the Lord in all places who jeoparded her life contrary to the Kings command went and spoke to the King in the wisdom and fear of the Lord by which means she saved the lives of the People of God and righteous Mordecai did not forbid her speaking but said If she held her peace her and her Fathers house should be destroyed and herein you blind Priests are contrary to Righteous Mordecai Likewise you may read how Judith spoke and what noble acts she did and how she spoke to the Elders of Israel and said Dear Brethren seeing ye are the honorable elders of the People of God call to remembrance how our Fathers in time past were tempted that they might be proved if they would worship God aright they ought also to remember how our Father Abraham being tryed through manifold tribulations was found a friend of God so was Isaac Jacob and Moses and all they pleased God and were stedfast in Faith through manifold troubles And read also her prayer in the Book of Judith and how the Elders commended her and said All that thou speakest is true and no man can reprove thy words pray therefore for us for thou art an holy Woman and fearest God So these elders of Israel did not forbid her speaking as you blind Priests do yet you will make a Trade of Womens words to get money by and take Texts and Preach Sermons upon Womens words and still cry out Women must not speak Women must be silent so you are far from the minds of the Elders of Israel who praised God for a Womans speaking But the Jezebel and the Woman the false Church the great Whore and tatling women and busie-bodies which are forbidden to Preach which have a long time spoke and tatled which are forbidden to speak by the True Church which Christ is the Head of such Women as were in transgression under the Law which are called a Woman in the Revelations And see further how the wise VVoman cryed to Joab over the VVall and saved the City of Abel as you may read 2 Sam. 20. how in her wisdom she spoke to Joab saying I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel and thou goest about to destroy a city and Mother in Israel Why wilt thou destroy the Inheritance of the Lord Then went the woman to the people in her wisdom and smote off the head of Sheba that rose up against David the Lords Anointed Then Joab bled the Trumpet and all the People departed in peace And this deliverance was by the means of a Womans speaking but tatlers and busie bodies are forbidden to preach by the True Woman whom Christ is the Husband to the Woman as well as the Man all being comprehended to be the Church and so in this True Church Sons and Daughters do Prophesie Women labour in the Gospel but the Apostle permits not tatlers busie-bodies and such as usurp authority over the Man would not have Christ Reign nor speak neither in the Male nor Female Such the Law permits not to speak such must learn of their Husbands But what Husbands have Widows to learn of but Christ And was not Christ the Husband of Philips four Daughters And may not they that learn of their Husbands speak then But Jezebel and Tatlers and the Whore that denies Revelation and Prophesie are not permitted which will not learn of Christ and they that be out of the Spirit and Power of Christ that the Prophets were in who are in the Transgression are ignorant of the Scriptures and such are against Womens speaking and Mens too who Preach that which they have received of the Lord God but that which they have preached and do preach will come over all your heads yea over the head of the false Church the Pope for the Pope is the Head of the False Church and the False Church is the Popes Wife and so he and they that be of him and come from him are against Womens speaking in the True Church when both he and the false Church are called Woman in Revel 17. and so are in the Transgression that would usurp authority over the Man Christ Jesus and his Wife too and would not have him to Reign but the Judgment of the great Whore is come But Christ who is the Head of the Church the True Woman which is his Wife in it do Daughters Prophesie who are above the Pope and his Wife and a top of them And here Christ is the Head of the Male and Female who may speak and the Church is called a Royal Priesthood so the Woman must offer as well as the Man Rev. 22.17 The Spirit saith Come and the Bride saith Come and so is not the Bride the Church and doth the Church only consist of Men you that deny Womens speaking answer Doth it not consist of Women as well as men Is not the Bride compared to the whole Church And doth not the Bride say Come Doth not the Woman speak then the Husband Christ Jesus the Amen and doth not the false Church go about to stop the Brides Mouth But it is not possible for the Bridegroom is with his Bride and he opens her Mouth Christ Jesus who goes on Conquering and to Conquer who kill and slayes with the Sword which is the words of his Mouth the Lamb and the Saints shall have the Victory the true Speakers of Men and Women over the false Speaker The End

not there Oh! blessed and glorified be the Glorious Lord for this may all the whole body of mankind say though the wisdom of man that never knew God is alwayes ready to except against the weak but the weakness of God is stronger than men and the foolishness of God is wiser then men And in Act. 18. you may read how Aquila and Priscilla took unto them Apollos and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly who was an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures yet we do not read that he despised what Priscilla said because she was a Woman as many now do And now to the Apostles words which is the ground of the great Objection against Womens speaking And first I Cor. 14. let the Reader seriously read that Chapter and see the end and drift of the Apostle in speaking these words for the Apostle is their exhorting the Corinthians unto charity and to defire Spiritual gifts and not to speak in an unknown tongue and not to be Children in understanding but to be Children in malice but in understanding to be men and that the Spirits of the Prophets should be subject to the Prophets for God is not the Author of Confusion but of Peace And then he saith Let your Women keep silence in the Church c. Where it doth plainly appear that the women as well as others that were among them were in confusion for he saith How is it Brethren when ye come together every one of you hath a Psalm hath a Doctrine hath a Tongue hath a Revelation hath an Interpretation let all things be done to edifying Here was no edifying but all was in confusion speaking together Therefore he saith If any man speak in an unknown Tongue let it be by two or at most by three and that by course and let one Interpret but if there be no Interpreter let him keep filence in the Church Here the Man is commanded to keep silence as well as the woman when they are in confusion and out of order But the Apostle saith further They are commanded to be in Obedience as also saith the Law and if they will learn any thing let them ask their Husbands at home for it is a shame for a Woman to speak in the Church Here the Apostle clearly manifests his intent for he speaks of women that were under the Law and in that Transgression as Eve was and such as were to learn and not to speak publickly but they must first ask their Husbands at home and it was a shanie for such to speak in the Church And it appears clearly that such women were speaking among the Corinthians by the Apostles exhorting them from malice and strife and confusion and he preacheth the Law unto them and he saith in the Law it is written With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people vers 2. And what is all this to Womens Speaking that have the Everlasting Gospel to preach and upon whom the Promise of the Lord is fulfilled and his Spirit poured upon them according to his word Acts 2.16 17 18. And if the Apostle would have stopped such as had the Spirit of the Lord poured upon them why did he say just before If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by let the first hold his peace and you may all prophesie one by one Here he did not say that such Women should not Prophesie as had the Revelation and Spirit of God poured upon them but their Women that were under the Law and in the Transgression and were in strife confusion and malice in their speaking for if he had stopt Womens praying or prophesying why doth he say Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonoureth his head but every Woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head Judge in your selves Is it comely that a Woman pray or prophesie uncovered For the Woman is not without the Man neither is the Man without the Woman in the Lord 1 Cor. 11.3 4 13. Also that other Scripture in 1 Tim. 2. where he is exhorting that Prayer and Supplication be made every where lifting up holy Hands without wrath and doubting he saith in the like manner also That Women must adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefastness and sobriety not with broidered hair or gold or pearl or costly array He saith Let Women learn in silence with all subjection but I suffer not a Woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the Man but to be in silence for Adam was first formed then Eve and Adam was not deceived but the Woman being deceived was in the transgression Here the Apostle speaks particularly to a Woman in Relation to her husband to be in subjection to him and not to teach nor usurp authority over him and therefore he mentions Adam and Eve But let it be strained to the utmost as the opposers of Womens Speaking would have it that is That they should not preach nor speak in the Church of which there is nothing here Yet the Apostle is speaking to such as he is teaching to wear their apparel what to wear and what not to wear such as were not come to wear modest apparel and such as were not come to shamefastness and sobriety but he was exhorting them from broidered hair gold and pearls and costly array and such are not to usurp authority over the Man but to learn in silence with all subjection as it becometh Women professing Godliness with good works And what is all this to such as have the Power and Spirit of the Lord Jesus poured upon them and have the Message of the Lord Jesus given unto them must not they speak the Word of the Lord because of these undecent and unreverent Women that the Apostle speaks of and to in these two Scriptures And how are the men of this Generation blinded that bring these Scriptures and pervert the Apostles Words and corrupt his intent in speaking of them and by these Scriptures endeavour to stop the Message and Word of the Lord God in Women by contemning and despising of them If the Apostle would have had Womens speaking stopt and did not allow of them why did he entreat his true Yoak-fellow to help those Women who laboured with him in the Gospel Phil. 4.3 And why did the Apostles joyn together in Prayer and Suppication with the Women and Mary the Mother of Jesus and with his B●ethren Acts 1.14 if they had not allowed and had union and fellowship with the Spirit of God wherever it was revealed in Women as well as others But all this opposing and gain-saying of Womens Speaking hath risen out of the bottomless Pit and spirit of Darkness that hath spoken for these many hundred years together in this night of Apostacy since the Revelations have ceased and been bid and so that spirit hath limited and bound all up within its bond and compass and so would suffer none to