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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75977	The glory of women: or, A treatise declaring the excellency and preheminence of women above men, which is proved both by scripture, law, reason, and authority, divine, and humane. Written first in Latine by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa Knight, and doctor both of law and physicke. And presented to Margaret Augusta, Queen of the Austrians and Burgundians. And now translated into English, for the vertuous and beautifull female sex of the Commonwealth of England By Edvv. Fleetvvood, Gent.; Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus. English	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Fleetwood, Edward.	1652 (1652)	Wing A788; Thomason E655_7; ESTC R205944	27,257	39

blessing therefore is given for the womans sake but the law for the man the law I say of anger and malediction the man was forbid to eate of the fruite of the tree the woman not so who neither as yet was created when the command was given to the man for woman God willed to be free from the beginning the man therefore sinned by eating not the woman the man brought death not the woman and wee all have sinned in Adam not in Eve we have drawn originall sin not from the Mother the Female but from the Father the Male therefore the old law hath circumcised every Male and the Females abide uncircumcised ordaining originall sin to be punished in that sex only which transgressed neither did God accuse Eve because she had eaten but because she had given occasion of evill to the man and that unwittingly by reason she was tempted of the Devill The man knowingly sinned the woman ignorantly and deceived hath erred for she was tempted of the first devill who knew the woman to be the most excellent of all the creatures And as Bernard saith the devill seeing her beauty to be admired knowing her to be such a one as he had knowne before whilst he stood which above all Angells had the fruition of God he cast envy against the woman alone for her excellency Wherefore Christ was borne most humble into the world that he might by his humility expiate the pride of the sinne of our first parents he took the mans Sex as being more humble he took not the womans Sex being more sublime and noble Moreover because we were condemned for the sinne of the man not for the sinne of the woman God willed that by which Sex the sinne came in the same the expiation of sinne should be made and the Sex which through ignorance was deceived by the same punishment should be made Therefore it was said to the Serpent because the woman or which is truer read because the seed of the woman shall bruise his head not the man neither the seede of the man And hence it is that the order of Priest-hood is committed by the Church rather to the man then to the woman because every Priest representeth Christ but Christ the first man being a sinner to wit Adam from this the Canon is understood which beginneth thus This Image that woman is not made to the Image of God to wit the corporeall image of Christ for God willeth I say Christ to be the sonne not of the man but of the woman whom he honoured so far that he would put on the flesh of woman alone for in regard of the woman alone Christ is called the son of man not in regard of the man This is the great Miracle which the Prophet was very much amazed at because a woman compasseth a man to wit when the whole Sex of man is comprehended in a Virgin and she beareth Christ in her body Also Christ rising from the dead appeared to women first and not unto men neither is it unknown that after the death of Christ men departed from the faith but women it is manifest never fell away from the faith and Christian Religion Furthermore no persecutions for the faith at any time no Heresie no Errour hath ever risen from women but otherwise it is concerning men Christ is betrayed sold bought accused condemned suffered was crucified at length put to death and all by men Yea he was denied of Peter forsaken of the rest of the Disciples accompanied of women alone to the crosse and to the Sepulcher And the wife of Pilat a heathen did more indeavour to save Christ then any of those men which had beleeved To this may be added that almost all the whole Schoole of Divines affirm that then the Church abided not except in one woman alone to wit the Virgin Mary and for that thing deservedly the Female Sex is called religious and holy Now if any should say with Aristotle that the Males are more strong more wise and more noble amongst living creatures the excellent Doctor Paul answers this saying God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weak things of this world God hath chosen to confound the strong and the ignoble and contemptible God hath chosen and those things which are not that he might destroy those things that are For who amongst men in all gifts of Nature was more eminent then Adam but a woman humbled him Who stronger then Sampson but a woman over-came his strength Who chaster then Lot yet a woman provoked him to incest Who more religious then David but a woman perverted his holinesse Who wiser then Salomon but a woman deceived him Who patienter then Job whom the devill stript of all his goods killed his Daughters and his Sonnes filled him with Ulcers all over his body notwithstanding he was not able to provoke him from his ancient sincerity but the woman being in this superiour and of more power then the devill himself provoked him to curse Yea if it were lawful to call Christ himselfe into these comparisons then whom nothing is more powerfull nothing more wise since he is the eternall wisdome and power of God did not he suffer himselfe to be overcome by the Woman of Canaan he saying It is not good to take the childrens bread and cast it to dogs She again answered Yea Lord but the dogs eate the crums that fall from their Masters table and now with reverence be it spoken as it were overcome by this Argument he blessed her saying Be it done unto thee as thou wilt Who more ferventer in the faith then Peter the chiefe of the Apostles a woman seduced him not the least Pastor of the Church to deny Christ Let the Canonists say what they wil that their Church cannot erre but hath not the woman Pope her name Joane deluded it with an egregious imposture but who ever shall say these things more bend themselves to the reproach of women then to adde to their praises To whom women in this manner shal answer If there be a necessity that one of us make a losse of some good or life I had rather destroy thee then be destroyed my selfe and that by the example of Innocent the third who in his own Epistle decretall to a certain Cardinall whom he sent Legat for the Roman See who left this in writing If it cannot be avoided but that I or thou must be confounded I will chuse rather to confound thee Furthermore the civill Lawes take that care of and provide for women so that they shall be sure to have their right although it cannot be without damage and injury to men And in holy Writ is not even the wickednesse of women commended and extolled oftentimes more then men doing wel Is not Rachel praised which deluded her Father with a neate invention when he sought his Idolls Is not Rebecca praised

because she got Jacob the blessing of his Father by deceit and afterwards warnes him to fly his brothers wrath And Rhaab the Harlot did deceive those that sought the Spies of Joshua and it was accounted to her for rightèousnesse Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him enter in O my Lord and she gave to him requiring water a bottle of milke to drinke and covered him lying down and Sisera sleeping she entered in unto him and drove a naile into his head and slew him who had trusted himself with her for safety and for this notorious betraying she was blessed among women in her tabernacle Read the History of Judith and note her words to Holefernes she saith Take the words of thy handmaid because if thou wilt follow them the Lord will keep thee safe saying I will tell to thee all things so that I may lead thee thorow the midst of Jerusalem and thou shalt leade the people of Israel as sheep without a shepherd and not one dog shall barke against thee because these things are spoken to me by the providence of God And Holofernes lulled a sleep with her flatteries shee strucke into the neck and cut off his head I pray you what more wicked counsel what crueller treacheries what more capitall treasons can be invented And yet this woman therefore was praised and magnified so then the wickednesse of woman is higher reputed then mans well doing Did not Cain do well in offering the first of the fruites of the earth for a sacrifice and yet for that very thing he was rejected of God And did not Esau do well while in a pious obedience he hunted after Venison for his decrepit father and in the meane time he was defrauded of the blessing and hated of God Vzzah for his zeale to Religion holding up the Arke sliding and almost fallen downe was struck down with sudden death King Saul for sparing the fat beasts of the Amalakites although for a sacrifice to the Lord was deprived of his Kingdome and delivered up to an evill spirit The daughters of Lot were excused from the incest with their father but their drunken father was not excused and his posterity was cast out from the Church of God Incestuous Tamar was defended and called more just then the Patriark Judah and notwithstanding that fraudulent Incest was thought worthy to propagate that line of which our Saviour should afterwards be borne Goe now yee stout and valiant men go yee great Schollars that have Pallas and the Muses most propitious to you goe I say by as many examples which all your Poetical helps are too few for prove the contrary opinion namely that the wickednesse of a man is better then a womans well doing Sure I am you cannot be able to defend that except you run to blind Allegories where also the authority of woman shall be equall at least with that of man But let us returne even this may be a most evident Argument to all of the excellence of so happy a Sex because the purest of them the most blessed Virgin Mary was conceived as some divines affirm without originall sin This is a strong Argument of Aristotle the best of which kinde is more noble then the best of the other kind that kind is more noble then the other In the Female kind the best is the Virgin Mary in the Male kind there hath not risen a greater then John Baptist but how much the blessed Virgin which is exalted above all the companies of Angels excelleth John Baptist no sound Christian can be ignorant of In like manner on the contrary wee may argue the worst of which kind is worse then the worst of the other that kinde is inferiour to the other But we read of some men worse then the worst of women We will not here dispute whither he might bee Judas that betrayed Christ concerning whom Christ saith It had been better for that man he had not been borne or Antichrist in whom the whole power of Satan dwelleth Furthermore the Scriptures declare many men to be condemned to eternal torments when no woman at any time condemned may be read of to this may be added in way of testimony a prerogative of brutish nature because the Eagle which is Queen of all Birds always of the Female never of the Male is found it is said that there is but one only Phaenix and that a Female which is in Egypt But on the contrary of the Serpent which hath its name from King I mean the Basiliske the most poysonous of all venemous creatures there is none except a Male which is impossible to be gendered a Female Furthermore the excellency vertue and innocency of this Sex even by these Arguments aboundantly sufficient may be shewed because the rising of all evills is of man none of the woman because the first formed Adam hee durst transgresse the Law of the Lord he hath locked the gates of Heaven and hath rendred us all liable to sin and death for we all have sinned and dyed in Adam not in Eve In like manner the first begotten of him hath unlocked the gates of Hell he was the first Envyer the first Man-slayer the first Parricide the first despairing of the mercie of God the first that had two Wives Lamech the first drunkard Noah the first discoverer of the nakednesse of his father the son of Noah Ham the first Tyrant and Idolater Nimrod Man first committed adultery man was first incestuous men first made covenants with devills and found out prophane arts the sons of Jacob first sold their brethren Pharaoh the Aegyptian first killed children men first lascivious against nature Sodome and Gomorrah in times past famous Cities being witnesses which for the wickednesse of men perished We read of some men having two Wives for their goatish pleasure some more such were Lamech Abraham Jacob Esau Joseph Moses Sampson Helcana Saul David Salomon Assur Roboham Abia Caleph Ahasuerus and innumerable others which had each of them many Wives and Concubines neither content with the use of them to fill their lusts they have mingled themselves with their hand-maides also But on the contrary we finde that no woman except onely Bathsheba but hath been contented with one man alone neither shalt thou find any that had two husbands if they had Off-spring of the first for women are much more continent by reason of their shamefacednesse and modesty then men who because they have known themselves unfruitfull we read that they have abstained from lying with men and to have brought into their Husbands strange women as Sarab Rachel Lea and many others unfruitful which have brought in their handmaids to raise up posterity to their husbands But what man I pray you how old soever cold barren and unfit for women is of such goodnesse towards his wife or at any time of that charity that they will appoint some in their places which might bedew the fertile