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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32902	A testimony to the fulfilling the promise of God relating to such women who through the pouring out of Gods Spirit upon them are become prophetesses, daughters, and handmaidens and their prophecying, teaching, preaching,and praying through the operation of the Spirit of Christ, in the church proved lawfully by several plain Scripture testimonies and examples, out of both the Old and New Testaments, both under the time of the Law and also in the Gospel despensation, and the common objection alleged against the same from the Apostle Pauls words in I Cor. 14, 34 and I Tim. 2, 12 &c. clearly answered : recommended to the consciences of all that value the testimony of Holy Scripture / by one who hath diligently searched the Scripture, and hath had an high esteem thereof from his youth, Thomas Camm.	Camm, Thomas, 1641-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing C396A; ESTC R5431	15,913	20

have heard was set out in Churches That Extraordinary Gifts are not altogether ceased in the Church Gualter an Entertainer and Adviser of Queen Elizabeth's Bishops on Rom. 16. says Paul is not ashamed to call Priscilla his fellow-Helper not ashamed of a Woman at the Church of Rome whose Faith was spoken of through the World. That she was the first named because perhaps she was first converted and more known afterwards instructing her Husband they expounded the Way of the Lord to Apollos and without doubt to many others making their House a publick Meeting-House in time of Persecution Augustin saith Every Father and Mother in a Family should play the Bishop So Gualter called the learned who speaks there much against the haughtiness of the Clergy despising mean helps knowing that in Jesus Christ there is neither Male nor Female So Dr. Cave says Prim. Christ part 1. c. 8. He meets with frequent mention of Deaconesses in ancient Writings as Phebe two Maids in Pliny's Letter to the Emperor Clem. Alex. strom l. 3. Of 〈…〉 calls them She 〈…〉 W. Tindal that famous Martyr in his Answer to Sr Thomas Moor pag. 322. and 287. says In some cases Women may Teach and Baptize and Rule their Husbands too if they be besides themselves Yea says he if Histories be true Women have preached since the opening of the New-Testament And in four Historians of the ancient Church Socrat. l. 1. c. 16. Theod. l. 1. c. 24. Sozom. l. 2. c. 6. Niceph. l. 8. c. 34. we find that a Woman converted the Nation of the Iberes who first converted the King then he preached to the men and she and the Queen to the Women Puffinus saith he received it from Bocurius their first Ruler And even in declining and corrupter times mention is made in Histories what liberty Women had in some Councils As in Wilfrid Samms Brit. a chief Bishops time when he would excommunicate the Scots and Northern English because they would not receive the Romish Rites Hilda Abbess of Whitby in Yorkshire withstood him Illyricus test verit And also in his time in a Council at Baconkeld five Kentish Abesses were not only present but subscribed their Names above all Presbyters and a Bishop G. G. Brit. ch hist Cent. 7. And Illyricus mentions another English Abbess that wrote to the Pope in defence of Ancient Canons And Heldegardis she instructed the Pope in his Life Prophesied c. whom Ja. Max●ell in his Book of Prophesies dedicated to K. James's Bishops produces with many other Women And in the Council of Trent it was confessed That the Service of women in the Church was degenerated Hist Counc of Trent l. 2. In the year 1414. Joan VVhite taught spread her husbands doctrine J. Fox Martyr And Dr. Rol. Taylor speaks of Womens Services In the last Age a Woman was principal Ordinary in the Church hers and in her time there remained Permission for Women to Baptize as well as in her Sisters time Conference at Hampton-Court and I find nothing but there doth yet and then why not to Preach For many therein are permitted to Preach yet not to Baptize And t is a Rule that they that may do the greater may do the lesser However they are not only permitted but commanded in the Liturgies Rubrick to speak in the repetition of the Creed Responses Psalms c. if they be of the Congregation though not Prophe●eises For all are not Prophets Paul says whose restraint therefore is not universal confessed by Judgment and Practice but on occasion of Abuse as Jerom says and Calvin too RICHARD RICHARDSON THE END