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A00060 An harborovve for faithfull and trevve subiectes agaynst the late blowne blaste, concerninge the gouernme[n]t of vvemen. wherin be confuted all such reasons as a straunger of late made in that behalfe, with a breife exhortation to obedience. Anno. M.D.lix. Aylmer, John, 1521-1594. 1559 (1559) STC 1005; ESTC S100367 81,623 134

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as in this place I will take from you your honerable Senators and your wise counselers and I will geue you boyes and women Esaie or effeminate persons to reigne ouer you not boyes in age but in maners as Aristotle saithe of yonge men Eth. 1. that to heare Philosophie it maketh no matter for their yeares but for their maners not women in sexe but in feblenes of wit and not suche as some women be wiser better learned discreater constanter then a number of men but such as women be of the vvurst sort fōd folish wanton flibbergibbes tatlers triflers wauering witles without counsell feable careles rashe proude deintie nise tale bearers euesdroppers ruinor raisers euell tonged worse minded and in euerye wise doltefied with the dregges of the Deuils dounge hill as these minions be such shall your senatoures and rulers be that shall be neither hable to rule them selfes nor you No Deborahes no Iudiths no Hesters no Ely zabethes For sure wher such be ther is no token of Gods wrath whiche the Prophet threatneth here but of gods fauoure wherof we may be assured Therfor this argumente riseth of wronge vnderstandinge as the Vicar of Trumpenton vnderstode Eli Eli lamah zabatani when he red the Paslion vpon Palme Sonday when he came to that place he stopped and calleing the Churchwardens saide Neighboures this geare muste be amended heare is Elitwise in the booke I assure you if my L. of Elie come thys waye and see it hee will haue the booke Therefore by mine aduise we shall scrape it out and put in oure owne townes name Trumpington Trūpington lamah zabactani they consented and he did so because he vnderstode no grewe So they that vse this place for a weapon against this matter thei fault in homonymia not considering that words haue proper significations and translations The .iii. reason of this argument is oute of Saint Paule wherby The .iii. reason women be forbidden to speake in the congregacion for it is an vnsemely thinge for them to speake This is meruelouslye amplefied and vrged as thoughe it were so sounde as no faulte nor cracke coulde be founde in it This is the Hercules clubbe that beateth all downe before it Theese bee Sampsons lockes that make him so stronge wherefore there muste be taken some paines in the confutinge of it fytste therefore I laye this foundacy on whiche I laide before that Saynt Paule nor none of the reast of Christes garde meddle not with Cyuill pollycie no further then to teach obediēce nor haue no commission thereunto in all the whole scripture And this beinge a greate matter of pollicie yea the greatest for it conteigneth the whole it can not be within the compasse of Pauls commission and so foloweth it that Paul either in this place ment no such matter as they gather or if he did he did it wythout the compasse of his commission but that is vnlike For as he saide in one thinge so surely did he in all Quod accepi a domino id tradidi vobis Et unitatores hier estote sicut ego Christi VVell what then ment he 1. Cor. 11. 1. Cor. 4. This he ment That though he ordemed that euery mā in the assemblie ecclesiastical about the word of God ād praier shuld haue leaue orderly ād in his course to speke ād vtter for thinterpretatiō of the scripture all that was reueled him by the spirit of God yet womē because they be not mete 1. Cor. 14 neither by nature nor study to preche and interprete scriptures he woulde not haue to medle with it there Primas in 1. Cor 14 Theoph. And as Primasius and Theophi saith the chefest cause that moued Paule to take thys order was the common faulte that then was in that sexe For being somwhat instructed by the hearing of thapostles in the misteri of saluacion in the crosse of Christ they began to thinke somethinge of them selues and turned that was taughte to edifye with to a iangling and tatlinge in the church when thei met so that the congregacion was thereby disturbed For the auoydinge whereof Paule mente to bridle them as withoute doubte he wold haue done the mē also if they had prophecied vnorderly or made it a matter of discorde as it hathe bene of late in some congregacions where it hathe bene reuiued And not only he debarred the women from prophesiyng but also from anye publike function in the ecclesiasticall iurisdiction VVhat is requyred in a pulpit man For in such as shall occupy the pulpit is required these things that they be mete to teach to reproue and conuince In teaching is required grauitie learning and eloquence In reprouinge courage and sounde iudgemente and in conuincynge Artes memorye and muche science And because the bringinge vppe of vvomenne is commonlye suche as they canne not haue theese thynges for they bee not broughte vppe in learnynge in Scholes nor trayned in disputacions Or if they were yet because nature hathe made them softer and milder then menne Yet bee they not suche as are as are mete for that function Therfore be they vnmete for this calling For those that be preachers must be no mylke soppes Preachers must be nomilck soppes no white lyuered gentlemen that for the frowning and cloudy countenaunce of euery man in authoritie will leaue his tackle and crie Peccaui They must be of such nature as the Poet saieth of Crito in vultu grauitas in verbis sides Terent. They may not be afrayed to rebuke the proudest no not kynges and quenes so farfurth as the two tables reacheth As we see in Samuel Nathan Elie Ihon Babtist and many other They may not stoupe to euery mans becke and study to please man more thē God If heresies arise they must haue their tooles ready to mete with thaduersary and to ouerthrowe hym whiche he can not haue onles he haue trauay led in many sciences harde and redde much which thinges because they be huswyues women can not haue cōmonly and therfore they be vnmete hereunto Yea God knoweth so be many mē to for it is not inough for a man to tell a fayre tale in the pulpit and when he commeth downe is not able to defende it If preathers and spirituall ministers be suche where be we when we come to handgripes They must not only florishe but they must know their quarter strookes and the waye how to defende their head their head Christe I saye and his crosse And specially in these dayes wherin Sathan spiting the happy grouthe and grenes of Gods field soweth tares and fytches of heresies and sectes continually to choke or to empayre the good corne if it may be VVhat ennemies haue we of the Papistes vnlearned thinke you nay who so encountreth with them had nede haue his harnes wel bucked to hym or he may chaūce to take a wipe I would they were aswel mynded as they be learned VVhat saye you nowe to the Arrians whiche suer
Thaunciēt men Senators gaue him coūsel aduise to kepe the people in order by loue gentlenes and clemēcy thother aduised hym not to spare but to lay about him to chop of their heades to towre thē hāge thē burne thē awai with them dead mē do no harme and to make his litle finger heauier vpon his people thē was his fathers body These ware lusty laddes these were suche as would wyne all our lose all But they founde at the last as other that haue folowed them very Hieroboamites as wrissles VVyn chesters and some other their scholers yet aliue that as Horatius saieth vis consilij expers Horat. in od s. mole ruit sua fearsnes without wisdome and counsel cummeth to a so lishe ende I doubt not but hir maiestie if she could woulde chuse hir counsell of the nobilyte she being her selfe the head of that order and patronesse but if she shal espie out meaner men of greater experience farther reache and more scyence then they be it is not to be feared but thē nobles both for their owne safetie and the Quenes would gladly lotte to them selfes though she woulde not require it suche as myght put them in mynde of thynges they remember not either because they haue not exercised and beaten their heads about it or by lookyng to their lordships haue not had leisure to studdy for pollicies But wise men by study and noble men by birth wyll make suche an harmony in the commō wealth as neyther Frenche nor Scotte shal be hable to interrupte the concorde and it to be hoped that neyther the one parte in respect of their nobilitie wyll contempne the other for their basenes nor enuie thē for their wisdom nor thother part through thadmiracion of their own giftes set light by the honour aūciētnes of the peres 1. Cor. 12. Learne a similitude saith Paul of the body of mā how eche mēber is not the head yet hath his necessary vse in the bodye wherefore if some be wiser and some nobler som richer and som porer I doubt not but like good marmers they will all consider that they must all trauaile to bringe the ship of the common welth the Church of Christe and the Quenes realm to a quiet port which wil not be if they striue who shall tend the sail and who the helm who shall sounde and who clense the Pumpe who shal do this and who shal do that Iosephe with King Pharao kept by his counsel al the kings people from staruinge a meane man and a straunger pulled out of Prison wher he lay for a great crime Gen. 41. And Daniell gouerned Chaldea better then all the Princes ther and his seruice was more acceptable to the king then all the rest Mardocheus by the help of Hester Hester 8. kept Assuerus from the foulest murdre that euer was deuised And yet he was but a meane man to be of a kinges counsell being not onlye a straunger but also suche an abiecte as satte at the kinges gate without office dignitie countenaunce or anye estimacion yea and of suche a stomacke as he woulde not stoupe to the proudest of all the reaste M. Haman who was domine fac totum Vvhiche had like to haue cost him the best ioynte he caried aboute VVherefore if meane men be called to that honoure lette no manne repine at it For sometime vnder a homelye coate lieth hidden muche treasure and pure golde is founde among muche drosse Pro. 21. A wise man saithe Salomon climeth vp into the cities of the stronge and mightye and destroieth all the strengthe that he trusteth to if I had but. 10. Nestors said Agamenon Troy could not stand longe Consideringe then that aswell in the choise of counselloures as in all other thynges oure mooste deare soueraigne taketh that waye as all godlye wise men muste needes accompte the best and geueth vs by these buddes and floures so greate hoope of singulare frute we maye if we bee nor stoones in sence and monsters in malice cheare and feede our selues with the good successe we hope to haue by her One thinge there is that maketh my harte to blede in my belly for her That when al her progenitoures commonly haue founde their realm in quiet She good Lady receiueth it at the hande of her sister intangled I will not saye oppressed wyth forren warres the french on th one side and the scots on thother which sucking oute of their auncettors poisoned breasts immortal and dedly hatred against this realme lie in waite like theues to inuade and to spoil it In token wherof the french freke as it is said after truce was taken VVhē he hard of Q. M. death kept stil his Germains about him vpon hope that if there had ben any stir in England he might haue set in a fote And for that purpose had willed the cardinal of lotharing to confer with our churchmen to se what mighte be done whether he did so or no God knoweth but it is certain that the cardnall had suche commission but God hath dispatched their deuises And besides that she is thus lefte who seeth not the realme not Philipped but flesed for Philips sake by mainteining all the last sommer such a nauy on the seas and an army on the land besides som tokens of loue that passed I am sure from the Quene to her spouse to shew that she was a louing wife Alas what remeadye it is a miserable case Psal 10. but this will be the help first to flee to God and say on euery side In do mino confido quomodo dicitis animae mae transmigra in montem sicut passer Our trust is in God thoughe the French and scots and the deuil him selfe had conspired against our souerein whiche is anima nostra oure life and cōfort Shal not we with God and pollicy be hable to do asmuch for the preseruation of our coūtry as Philip of Macedonie did with pollicy alone Gemistus Princes of il beginninges oft mak good endinges who comming to his kingdom in as il case ād worse then this vertuous Lady doth to hers hauing the Illyrians the Paenyans the Thessalonyans the Boetians and the Atheniens in his neck so vsed the matter by making peax with some by leaguinge with other and by war with the rest one after another that within .iii. yeres space he gatte again that his ancettors had lost and made al his enemies to stoupe and not long after became themperor of al Grece 2. Samu. 3. In like maner Dauid entred into his kingdō when the Philistins had made a meruelus slaughter in Israel and killed king Saul ād his sōnes in the field ād yet with in a while he recouered the losses ād had the better of al his enemies round about him So I doubt not but God shal send this Iudith grace and power to cut of Holophernes hed and this Deborah to saue her people ād knock out Siceras brains com he either out