armes nor Vulcan on his anvile playd Musick unto the Gods whiles forged was the sword VVhich now with sharp revenge Seconds each hasty word No trumpets then to stirr up warrs were heard no strif But in this Golden Age they livd a golden life And parallell allso to the purity of this golden age was the perfection of man and womans soule For when their bodies were first framed God created there in a lively soule which he stiled the breath of life and that Spirit beeing of an Angelical Essence diffused it self into each part giving motion sence and reason to the whole Now in this naturall marriage of Souls and body the Soul acts the body and the body supports the soule The Soule brought with her a rich dowry for the body quick apprehension deepe understanding and a treasurie fraught with memory The body brought a faire posession for the soule and received her within his habitation and Seated her with in the warlike castle of his heart fortifyed her with the thick bullwark of his breast attended her with waiting faculties as a family of so many servants made his eyes her watchmen his tongue her Orator his ear her sentinel his hands her Champions his feet her lackies his common parts her common vassals Now whosoever we please to take a review of womans first Creation equal unto mans having the same maker the same manner of making better then mans because framd of a better Substance in a place more Excellent and at a more remarkable time and of the Originall of mariage equal to both in as much as both were one flesh and one nature more expresly binding the man unto the royall Law of Love Lastly of the purity of that age from whence all theise testimonies are drawn he will easily Conclude what I have been endeavouring to confirme That man and wife here lived a peaceable life they enjoyed a loving union they lived in purest Love if ever there was made an absolute Law if ever Statute of such perfection as neither errour could corrupt it nor vice deprave it we are sure This was it where God in the â—irst Creation was the Law giver man in his first perfection the Law receiver and Obedient Conformist Thereunto Now whereas our imitation is to be drawn from the best patterns Here may we rest our selves as at the mouth of God and draw sweet waters from the very Fountain head of truth it self And that we may not waver and fructurate as at uncertainties God hath pleased farther to confirme us in the due esteeme of this Sacred Bond of Love by the Testimony of his spirit speaking likewise by the mouth of his great Apostle Paule who tells us that Marriage is a Type of that Mysticall Union that is between Christ our great Husband and his Church the Spouse beeing indeed the stricktest Injunction of mutual Love where was not to be so much as a secret thought or word touching rigorous Predomination our Lord Christ himself al tho the head of deare Spouse yet became a Servant to her in the highest and most eminent offices of Love nor of unkind preheminence for he endowes his church with the same priviledges of Adoption as Himself received in beeing his fathers first born and beloved childe in giving unto her likewise the same glorious Inheritance which his father invested Him withall It was saith St. Augustine a Mysterie of Union a Sacrament of Love a Bond of fidelitie a heavenly Paradice of peace for terme of this present life and the way unto perfection in that better life to come But man you will say by occasion of the woman fall from this integritue and therefore women are not now to exspect from men such duties of amitie True it is the Serpent by long perswasions induced her to a delightful sin of eating the forbidden fruit yet she shewd a stout resistance before she yeelded She made a short and sharp â—nswer to the Serpents cunning demand hath God forbidden you to eate of the fruite of the garden Implying a plaine falsification in his close assertion we may eate of the fruites of the garden but of the fruit of the tree in the midst of Paradise God commanded us not to eate we may not eate least we die From hence she drove the old cunning Serpent to his naturall shift and open traode down right lying you shall not die the death c. Adding there with all' a vaine hope of her knowing some thing which beeing discovered to her would much add to the beauty and perfection of her State and made as if God for that reason had withheld it from her for God doth know that in the day you eat thereoâ— yee shall be as Gods viz as the Elo him 〈◊〉 knowing good and evil Thus in 〈◊〉 faire combate for a fair time shâ— stood out at staffs end with him tilâ— by his stratagemes at lenth gott the glory of the day But Adam as soone as the fruite was proffered unto him did not make any demurr at all not so much as once questioned the matter but strait way tasted the sweetnes thereof whose bitter relish remaines in us to this day I see no reason then but that man all tho he was not first in the trangression should have an equall blame with the woman and perhaps more for the woman was drawn on and deceived with much greater difficultie then the man who suddenly and with less deliberation yelded unto Sin Especially when that generall Prohibition of eating this forbidden fruite was not given unto the woman but to the man THOU shalt not eat of the Tree c. And howsoever St. Gregorie hath it you shall not eate thereof as if it were spoken to both man and woman yet the originall reads it in the singular number And St. Austine tells us that by tradition the woman received this commandement from the man and not immediatly from the mouth of GOD as Adam did This I willingly doe grant and thence allso conclude that for this reason which hath weight in it the woman might Chaunce more easilie to breake this Law then the man Since the Allglorious Majesty of God Commanding can not but have a stronger influence on Adam then Adams command who was but a fellow-creature and One with her selfe could have upon Eve his wife Now the woman was indeed the Occasion of mans sin but not the reall cause and if Adam had but observed the command of God To whom it was in a distinct and perticular manner enjoyned though his wife had broken it ten thousand times yet we had not tasted death and as this is the Common received Opinion of the learned Schoole men and other Interpreters so the Apostle Paul makes the matter I think beyond dispute where he says that by One man sin entered into the world and death by sin and in Adam as our first Root and common head we all Sinned c. not mentioning Eve as the Cause all
THE GREAT ADVOCAâ— AND ORATOUR for WOMEâ— Or The Arraignment Tryall 〈◊〉 Conviction of all such wicked Hâ—â—bands or Monsters who hold 〈◊〉 lawfull to beate their Wives or to demeane themselves severely and Tyrannically towards them where Their crafty pleas are fully heard aâ—â— their Objections plainly answered anâ— Confuted And the 〈…〉 Condemnation passed 〈…〉 the Law of Nature the Law 〈…〉 Pollicy or Morallity the Civill and Canon Law and the Law of God Coloss 3. 19. Husbands Love your wives and be not bitter 〈◊〉 them Prov 16. 27 An ungodly man diggeth up 〈…〉 and in 〈…〉 there is as burnin◠〈…〉 froward 〈…〉 man soweth 〈◊〉 A. D. 1682. The Contents CH. 1. The Introduction CH. 2. That it is not lawfull for husbands to beat their wives prooved from the law of Nature CH. 3. The same confirmed by the Lawes of Morallity or of civile Pollicy CH. 4. The same argued and cleared up from the Civile Canon Lawâ— CH. 5. The same evinced from the Law of God CH. 5. The Conclusion To all married Women whose â—usbands rule over them with rigour and severity And likewise a word to all such irrationall husbands Ladies and Gentlewomen THE wiseman tells us that a word spoken 〈…〉 like apples of Goâ—â—◠〈◊〉 pictures of Silver 〈…〉 to your selves to judg how oppoâ—â—â—â—â—ely this Treatise comes unto your hands whose tendernicks are galled by your wearysome uneasy yoakes â— hope these few sheets may some what revive your drooping Spirits â—t beeing no small comfort when you have a friend at hand whose tender compassion towards your tender Sex makes him deplore your sad case and Plead your cause with such affection as if it were his own Me thinks I see how strangely your heart-breaking husbands are hurried by the violent Whirlewind of unbridled Passion me thinks I hear their loud murmurings their angry voice together with the ecchoing sound of servile blowes wounding my sorrwfull eares more then the dreadfull noyse of the disquieted seas more dangerouse then their forming rage more amazing theâ— Aetna's wrath whose wide throat â—â—â—gorgeth smoaks flames and â—under at one breath methinks 〈◊〉 see their shadow swiftly drawing on you like the black terrifying Hierricane that makes the tendeâ— Reedes whose nature yeelds to every gentle gale lie prostrate croudâ— together and whisper in trembling feare I am sensible how theiâ— austere demeanure and tyrannicaâ— behaviour have plunged diverse 〈◊〉 you into a deep and dangerous Gulph of sorrow and disparation who not finding peace and content at home are in an exorbitant manner seeking it else where and like persons disarmed of sence and reason by this Paroxisme of feare are Acting directly contrary to your own genuine and inclinations c. Now alltho I dare not justifie such enormities of yours but as a faithfull frind exhort your speedy Repentance and Amendment yet I lay the guilt tho not sufficient to excuse your fact in a more peculier manner to your husbands Charge and as the wicked Instrumentall cause of sins in you I Summon him without a deeper Repentance to prepare to Answer before the Great Tribunall judg both for himselfe and you Others there are more virtuosly inclined who are desponding in solitary corners and whose best remedy is to seek out some melancholy cave or desart place that may entertainâ— their pensive minds whilest their distracted thoughts are feeding oâ— soliscitude and care who instead oâ— teaching their eyes to weepe are endeavouring how to wiipe off their Christall teares as pure and cleare as is their Innocency without the discovery of their grief On whose pale eyâ— lids sits a sad messinger of wo more unwell come then the harbinger of death it selfe For such this book was chiefly designed and to every such desponding wife I now address my self advising you to trie once more what influence the violent cords of your laborious Love may have upon your misguided husband Take him by the hand and fall about his neck with sweet embraces hold him fast and compell him alltho against his will by all the retorick you have and by all the charming Eloquence of your loyall and constant Love c. â—f this prevaile not with him then conâ—ure him by all that 's dearest unto â—imselfe that he would please to â—ondescend to walk along with you â—nto this Temple of Eroto or the Muse of Love which is erected for your sakes alone Perhaps it may proeve and who knowes but it may O would to God it might such as was the Temple of the Goddesse Viri placa in Rome of whome Livie writes that whatever man and wife came to sacrifice Therein alltho never so much at strife and variance before yet they allways returned home again in Love and unity And that I may help one lift forward I desire now to speak a word or two to your contentious husbands whose words are fire brands arrowes and death or that which is much worse my advise to such shall be no other then thâ—t wise mans councell Prov. 25 8. 9. Go not forth hastily to strive least thou know not what to doe in the end thereof when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame debate thy cause By long forbearing is a Prince perswaded and a soft tongue breaketh bone it self Suppose thy wife to be what thou wouldst have all men think she is willfull froward and perverse consider whither thou hath not made her so doth her affections fit loose to thee examine well the grounds debate the matter with thy selfe Go nots forth hastily to trive with any person no not thy adversary much less with thy friend and least of all with her who lieth in thy bosome and should be dearest to thy heart nay who should be as deare unto thee as thy Life for as much as she is thy very selfe If a King with whom is commanding Majesty and power will be perswaded by a wise deportement how much more then will thy lowing wife whose tender Sex doth naturally dispose her to such sweetnesse softnesse Gentlenesse such melting and relenting teares such heart winning demeanure c. that the mollifying hand of Love may mould her into any stamp that vertue formes and who recoyles at nothing more then raggid usage because it is so directly contrary to her soule whose essence is compacted of ardent Love stronger then death it selfe and which many waters cannot quench From this time forward therefore goe thy wayes and reconcile thy selfe to thy offended selfe then let hand joyn in hand haste both of you to pay your Sacrifices to this Temple of unfeigned Love that when you returne from thence Heart may then joyn in Heart and both of you may be willing to live no longer then you live united in One soule which will redound to both your peace and tranquillity heer on earth and your future happinesse in the world to come and crowne your names to there present honour and my cordiall wishess with that palme of victorious and triumphant Successe which
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