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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77503	A looking-glasse for good vvomen, held forth by way of counsell and advice to such of that sex and quality, as in the simplicity of their hearts, are led away to the imbracing or looking towards any of the dangerous errors of the times, specially that of the separation. / As it was lately presented to the Church of God at Great-Yarmouth, by John Brinsley. Octob. 9. 1645. Imprimatur Ja: Cranford.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.	1645 (1645)	Wing B4717; Thomason E305_23; ESTC R200330	44,390	54

mans are both one should yet be of two Churches it is such a solecisme such an absurdity in Christianity as I think the world never saw practised much lesse heard pleaded for untill this last Age. So it is though it should be with the husbands consent Much more if without it much more if against it It is a thing which Protestants have ever condemned as a foul errour in the Church of Rome that persons who are not sui Juris at their own dispose but under the command of others as children that are under the command of Parents and servants that are under the command of Masters should ingage themselves in any Religious vow without the consent of their Superiours though it be under pretext of attaining a more perfect State And if so then let it be inquired with what warrant the wife who is under subjection can upon a like pretext desert that Church whereof her Husband is a Member being a true Church and ingage her self by Covenant unto another and that without his consent if not against it Surely if this be to submit themselves to their own Husbands I know not what it is to usurpe Authority over them But I shall leave this and withall the weaker Sex to whom I have spoken somewhat more fully and largely in as much as the Text looketh directly and principally at them I am ingaged by promise to speak somewhat also to the other Sex Let me disingage my self with what brevity may be in as much as their Lesson from hence cometh in onely in a Collaterall way and not so directly as the former Was the woman deceived at the first Application to men and being deceived was she in the Transgression What use shall men make of this Nay 1. What use they should not make hereof rather in the first place what use shall they not make of it It is a truth that is subject to be abused perverted And therefore let me first put in a Caveat to prevent that abuse which in brief is this Let not this be taken up in a contumelious way to the disparagement of the Sex Not take up this first infirty in a way of disparagement to the Sex Let not any of the Sons of Adam take occasion from hence to disdain or undervalue the daughters of Eve so as to disrespect their persons or despise their counsels Holy Iob durst not despise the cause of his man-servant or maid-servant when they contended with him Iob 31.13 Far be it from Husbands then to despise the counsels of their Wives because of their Sex The Story tells us in that two and twentieth chapter of the second Book of Kings how Hilkiah the chief Priest 2 King 22.14 and Shaphan the Scribe and divers other eminent personages by the order of King Josiah addressed themselves to a woman viz. Huldah the Prophetesse to consult with her in a matter of Religion touching the Book of the Law which was found in the Temple and to enquire what course they should take for the expiating of those many and great Violations of that Law the guilt whereof then lay upon the Land And in the second of Samuel cap. 20. we read how Joab that great Commander disdained not to hearken to the Counsell of a Woman at Abel 2 Sam. 20.19.20 as did also the rest of the Citizens there Good Counsell ought not to be rejected from what hand soever it cometh much lesse because from the hand of a Woman True the Woman vvas deceived at the first and by her counsell was a means to deceive her Husband That first Counsell succeeded ill proved Destructive to him that hearkned to it But what then Must her Counsell therefore no more be hearkned to Not so Let not this first miscariage be remembred in such a way or yet in any way that may be to the prejudice or disparagement of the Sex No reason for it The Woman repaired in point of Honour by Christ himself In as much as Christ himself hath sufficiently repaired and restored that Sex in point of Honour This he did in the dayes of his flesh in shewing many tokens of speciall grace and favour to some of that Sex But more sully after his Resurrection in appearing first unto them Therein did he apply a Salve to this first Soar and that a very proper one salving and taking of the scar and blemish of that first infirmity as may appear in some particulars 1. Matth. 28.9.10 Ioh. 20.11 c. Did Satan appear and speak first to the Woman So did Christ after his Resurrection first appear and reveal himself to the Woman 2. Was the Woman first deceived by Satans Suggestions So was the Woman here first undeceived as touching the mysteries of Christs Resurrection and that by his own Instructions 3. Was the Woman made the Instrument to deceive the man Lo here the woman made an Instrument to undeceive the man to undeceive even the Apostles themselves who as it seemeth were in a great measure mistaken about the Mystery of the Resurrection Ioh. 20.9 untill such time as they had received it from the Women who had been eye and ear Witnesses of it Such honour did Christ himself put upon this Sex making those vvomen as Jerome saith elegantly Apostolorum Apostolas Jerom Prolog in Zephan Apostelesses to the very Apostles themselves Let not then this old sore which is so fairly and thorowly healed be ever rubbed upon again in any such a way to the contumelious disparagement of the Sex This being promised by way of Caution Let me now shew you what use men may and ought to make of this infirmity in that Sex Or rather let Saint Peter do it for me What use men may and ought to make of this first infirmity in the woman who hath comprized the sum of all that I shall say in a few words in the former part of one verse 1 Pet. 3.7 Where speaking of Conjugall duties he willeth husbands to dvvell vvith their vvives according to knovvledge giving honour to them as being the vveaker vessels 1 Pet. 3.7 Marke it Such is the Woman in course of nature the vveaker Vessell weaker then the man and that both in body and minde And being so in regard of this her naturall infirmity she challengeth from the man a threefold respect A threefold respect to be yielded to the woman in regard hereof 1. That he must dvvell vvith her 2. Dwell with her according to knovvledge and 3. Give honour to her A word of each 1. Dwell with her This respect do Husbands owe to their Wives 1. Cohabitation Cohabitation so as not to estrange or absent themselves from them without just and necessary occasion In all probability had Adam been present with his Wife Satan would not have set upon her or if he had yet she had not been so deceived as she was The unnecessary absence of Husbands from their Wives oft times