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A96859	A brief treatise of religious womens meetings services & testimonies. According to the scriptures of truth. [A]lso, something concerning womens prophecying and teaching, &c. [W]ith some other things, (distinguishing the holy from the unholy) in the scriptures cited ... / [Wr]itten for the satisfaction of all that desire to be informed, by one, who by the free grace of God is become a searcher of the scriptures, and a lover of truth in the inward parts ...	Wood, Hugh, 17th cent.	1684 (1684)	Wing W3393; ESTC R186836	20,182	51

the Lord and maintain the false Prophets at their Table or otherwise and all them who run greedily after the Error of Balaam for Reward and all them who speak evil of the things they know not all the Gehazians who covet Silver Gold and Apparel and continue to be covered with the Leprosie of Sin to the day of their Death These who were Lepers were shut out under the Law and now they are shut out by the Spirit of God none of these can be permitted to speak in Christ's Church and all them who deny the new Law of Christ and Covenant of God to be written in the Hearts of Men and Women and all them who deny the Unction of the holy One and the leadings and guidings of the Spirit of Truth that leads into all Truth to be alone all-sufficient and all such Ministers as break Christ's Command and justifie themselves in so do doing as in calling one another Master James and Master John c. None of these while in that state may or can be permitted to speak in the Church of God but if they do they are to be testified against and all them that look for Gain and seeks for Gain from their Quarters and teach for Hire and divine for Money and all them who exercise Lordship over God's Heritage and all them who beat their fellow-Servants and eat and drink with the Drunkards and all them who steal the Words one from another and say Thus saith the Lord when the Lord never spake to them and all them who use unsound Words and slattering Titles to please Men and keep not the form of sound words and all them that have a form of Godliness denying the Power I say none of these may or can be permitted to speak in the Church of God and all those who deny Scripture-Testimony concerning Christ and undervalue his divine Precepts and Commands None of these may or can be permitted to speak in Christ's Church But I had almost forgot to tell you and did forget till the Spirit of Truth brought it to my remembrance that it is impossible that either Male or Fe●ale can speak in Christ's Church till ●hey be redeemed out of all these for the ●●ue Church is in God and God is in his ●wn Kingdom where the rebellious and ●nd disobedient and unclean cannot en●er nor any Man nor Woman can enter Gods Kingdom till they be born again ●nd made new in Christ Jesus To be short all who deny the Prophets Doctrine or Christ's Doctrine his di●ine Precepts recorded in holy Scripture ●r deny the Apostles Doctrine I say ●●ch are not to be permitted to speak in ●he solemn Assemblies of the Saints and ●lthough they confess all to be true yet if ●hey walk contrary in Life and Practice ●hey are to be silent in the solemn Assem●lies of the Righteous And all the Women that live in Pride and in Covetousness and in the vain Adornings of their outward Bodies and all that are drunken with the Cares and carnal Pleasures of this present evil World and all who useth Usurpation over the Man outward or inward are to be silent and not to speak in the Congregations of the Righteous Whoever they be Man or Woman that are found in the first Adam's nature in the fall they not witnessing a Death to that first Birth in them and a Resurrection throug● Jesus Christ unto Life in some measure● I say be they man or woman the Spirit o● God forbids them speaking in the Church And as the Man and the Woman are a● one in the Lord being filled by the sam● Spirit of God may speak in the Churc● as the Spirit of God gives them utterance● it being not they that speak but Christ i● them the Spirit of Truth in them So the Man and the Woman are all one in old Adam in the fall and such old Creatures may not nor can be permitted to speak in the Church Isa 49. 22 23. Thus saith the Lord God Behold I will lift up mine Hand to the Gentiles and set up my Standard to the People and they shall bring thy Sons in their Bosom and thy Daughters shall be carried upon their Shoulders and Kings shall be thy Nursing-Fathers and their Queens thy Nursing-Mothers c. Was it not here foretold that Women also should be nourishers or Nurses in Christ's Church And if they be Nurses they must have something to give to the Children and Milk in their Breasts to the Babes And if a Woman have the Milk of the Word of God in her Breast to wit in her Heart let her not hide nor keep it back but she must give it forth to ●●e hungry Babes for if she do not her ●reasts will grow dry O! my Soul and Life hath travelled with ●he Lord that I might see this day fulfilled ●hat this barren VVilderness might become ● fruitful Field that Kings and Queens ●rinces and their Princesses Dukes and ●heir Dutchesses and all other great Men ●nd great Women of all Ranks and De●rees whatsoever among whom I have ●welt in the outward from my birth might ●ome to receive the Word of Life in them●elves and partake of the Promise in Christ Jesus in his Church and that they may ●ome to witness that noble Birth brought forth in them that partakes of the Milk of ●he Word of God and would cause it to issue abundantly to nourish the hungry Babes and Children of Christ O Lord God! I wait for thy Salvation to see thee perform that word that sprung in my heart concerning them even that the Wilderness should become a fruitful Field and that the fruitful Field shall become a Wilderness It is with thee O Lord to do that which no other can do even to bring down the high Mountains and to level the high Hills and to make thy Way thorow them and to exalt thy Glory in the whole Earth for thou art God and there is none else with thee all things are possible glory to thy great Name forever and evermore saith my Soul Joel 2. 28. Acts 2. 17 18. And it shal come to pass that in the last days saith God I will pour out of my Spirit upon all Flesh and your Sons and your Daughters shall Prophecy and your Young Men shall see Visions and your Old Men shall dream Dreams and on my Servants and on my Hand-maidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit and they shall Prophecy And now in this Age and in our Day the Lord is fulfilling his Promise and his Spirit is poured forth upon many Sons and Daughters Servants and Hand-maidens The Earnest Penny is already received and many of them are runing to and fro and trading with their heavenly Penny their heavenly Gift that the may bring the Increase and Gain to their Lord and Master Christ Jesus And W● will be to them who hide their Lords Money in the Earth and put their Candl● under a Bushel of Earth and Wo also will be to them who stop forbid and disturb th● Sons and Daughters Servants and Handmaidens of the Lord in their going to and fro and improving their Lords money to wit their heavenly Gift that knowledg● may be encreased I say wo and misery will be the portion of such who distrub and stop them in their Travel if they Repent not Psal 2. 10 11 12. Be Wise now therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the Earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with Trembling kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish from the Way When his wrath is kindled but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him If you rebel against him till his Wrath be kindled against you he will break you dash you to pieces one against another like a Potters Vessel And now you may see that the Promise is to Daughters as well as to Sons to Handmaidens as well as to Men-servants and that the one shall prophesie as truly as the other Hugh Wood. THE END

and fighting among themselves again contending for the true Christ when neither of them has him revealed as appears by their Fruits Now when Elisha the man of God heard that the King had rent his Clothes that he sent to the King saying Wherefore hast thou rent thy Clothes let him come now to me and he shall know that there is a Prophet in Israel O that all Kings and Rulers were turned to the true Prophet Christ Jesus to the true Light in themselves and would direct all their People to him then their Rents and Divisions would quickly come to an end for he is the Healer of the Breaches and he is the Prince of Peace all his subjects are peaceable their Song is Glory to God in the Highest and on Earth Peace and good Will towards men Now when Naaman was come to the Prophet he directed him to wash in Jordan seven times and be clean but Naaman was wroth because the manner of his Cure came not according to what he had imagined to himself as you may read in the 11 12 verses of that chapter but his Servants gave him good counsel So you may see that it is good for great Men to have good Servants that may give good counsel in the time of need and pacifie wrath in time of Anger and it is good for Masters to take Advice from honest faithful Servants for if Naaman h●d gone away in his wrath and not taken his Servants counsel to obey the Prophet his L●prosie had remained with him and he had not been cured There one thing more that I cannot let pass before I proceed to another place and that is concerning the Covetousness of Gehazi We see that the Prophet of the Lord Elisha would receive none of Naaman's gifts and although he urged him yet he refused Here is a true mark of a Prophet of the Lord and of a Disciple of Jesus Christ freely they receive from the Lord and freely they give to the People they covet no man's Gold Silver nor Apparel Honest Paul who was a faithful Minister and Apostle of Jesus Christ was such an one as is witnessed Matth. 10. 7 8. As ye go Preach saying The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand heal the Sick cleanse the Lepers raise the Dead cast out Devils freely ye have received freely give Also read Acts 20. 34 35. 1 Cor. 4. 11 12. 2 Thes 3. 8. But Gehazi received them and run after Naaman with a Lye in his Mouth to get the Silver and to get the Garments as too to many this day run after the great Men and great Women of the Nations with a Lye in their Mouth coveting the Gold and the Silver and the Apparel But what should I say more the Leprosie of Naaman did cleave unto Gehazi and the Leprosie of Gehazi doth cleave to his Seed forever according to the Prophets words And now the Gehazians have lost the knowledge of the true Prophet and they have lost the knowledge of spiritual Jordan and therefore their Leprosie remains their Sin remains their Defilements remain and they have now lost hope of ever being cleansed on this side of the Grave and preach this for Doctrine to the People And they are very angry with any that speak of a possibility of being made clean For a Body of Death and Sin say they will remain and Imperfection will remain while we are on this side of the Grave But what have I to do with them or what should I say more of them for the Day breaketh and the Light ariseth wherein they shall be made manifest to all that will but open their Eyes to see them and they that will not must continue in blindness and at present I will leave them with that saying of Christ Matth. 15. 14. Let them alone they be blind Leaders of the Blind c. And now to our purpose in hand Phlip the Evangelist had four Daughters Virgins which did Prophesie as you may read Acts 21. 8 9. And Paul and others of the Disciples tarried many dayes in Philip's House and yet we do not read that Paul reproved them for prophecying So here you may see that in those dayes there was Daughters that had the Spirit of Prophesie and did Prophesie And also we read Acts 18. 26. That not only Aquila but also Priscilla his Wife were Expounders of the Way of God and Aquila was a Trades-man and Tent-maker and Paul was of the same Craft And we read in Phil 4. 3. That there were Women which laboured with Paul in the Gospel And so you may see that there were Women-labourers in the Gospel as well as Men and yet we read not that Paul rejected their labour because they were Women And so you see there were Women-Prophetesses Women-Expounders and Women-Labourers and yet not rejected nor reproved by any of the Apostles that I read of And Paul desires Titus to speak the things which become sound Doctrine that the aged Men be sober c. and that the aged Women likewise be in Behaviour as becometh Holiness or holy Women not false Accusers not given to much Wine teachers of good things that they may teach the younger Women to be sober c. read Tit. 2. throughout and there you will see that Paul alloweth Women to be teachers of good things as well as Men and that Spirit is judged that would hinder what God aloweth or stop that mouth which God opens And if Women did not meet together how could the Elder teach the Younger Or it may be queried If their teaching the younger Women be not most proper comly and effectual in a Meeting apart from the Men But it clearly may be seen that God alloweth Women to labour in the Gospel and to teach good things and he hath promised to pour out his Spirit upon the Women as well as the Men and they are to meet often together and to speak often one to another and to wait upon God together and think upon his Name together and praise his Power together and call upon his Name together as well as the Men and the elder in the Truth to teach the younger in the Truth Obj. But some may say Seeing it is so clear from the Scriptures of Truth that there hath been Women labourers in the Work of the Gospel and Women-Prophetesses and Women-Expounders of the Way of God and that it is commanded the Elder Women to teach the Younger c. How shall I know what Women those are that Paul forbids to speak in the Church Answ All Women that are apt to usurp Authority over their Husbands all Women that are under the Law and that have not learned true subjection and every Woman that hearkens to the Voice of the Serpent and is deceived by him as Eve was while they continue in that state cannot nor may not be permitted to speak in the Church of God And all the Jezebelians who paint their Faces and tire their Heads and persecute the Prophets of