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A12750	A mouzell for Melastomus, the cynicall bayter of, and foule mouthed barker against Euahs sex. Or an apologeticall answere to that irreligious and illiterate pamphlet made by Io. Sw. and by him intituled, The arraignement of women. By Rachel Speght	Speght, Rachel.	1616 (1616)	STC 23058; ESTC S117735	21,062	52

the first promise that was made in Paradise God makes to woman that by her Seede should the Serpents head be broken whereupon Adam calles her Heuah life that as the woman had beene an occasion of his sinne so should woman bring foorth the Sauiour from sinne which was in the fullnesse of time accomplished by which was manifested that he is a Sauiour of beleeuing women no lesse then of men that so the blame of sinne may not be imputed to his creature which is good but to the will by which Eue sinned and yet by Christs assuming the shape of man was it declared that his mercie was equiualent to both Sexes so that by Herods blessed Seed as Saint Paul affirmes it is brought to passe that male and female are all one in Christ Iesus To the second obiection I answer That the Apostle doth not heereby exempt man from sinne but onely giueth to vnderstand that the woman was the primaric transgressour and not the man but that man was not at all deceiued was farre from his meaning for he afterward expresly saith that as in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made aliue For the third obiection It is good for a man not touch a woman The Apostle makes it not a positiue prohibition but speakes it onelie because of the Corinths present necessitie who were then persecuted by the enemies of the Church for which cause and no other hee saith Art thou loosed from a wife seeke not a wife meaning whilst the time of these perturbations should continue in their heate but if thou art bound seeke not to be loosed if thou marriest thou sinnest not only increasest thy care for the married careth for the things of this world And I wish that you were without care that yee might cleaue fast vnto the Lord without separation For the time remaineth that they which haue wiues be as though they had none for the persecuters shall depriue you of them eyther by imprisonment banishment or death so that manifest it is that the Apostle doth not heereby forbid marriage but onely aduiseth the Corinths to forbeare a while till God in mercie should curbe the fury of their aduersaries For as Eusebius writeth Paul was afterward married himselfe the which is very probable being that interrogatiuely he saith Haue we not power to leade about a wife being a sister as well as the rest of the Apostles and as the brethren of the Lord and Cephas The fourth and last obiection is that of Salomon I haue found one man among a thousand but a woman among them all haue I not found for answere of which if we looke into the storie of his life wee shall finde therein a Commentary vpon this enigmaticall Sentence included for it is there said that Salomon had seuen hundred wiues and three hundred concubines which number connexed make one thousand These women turning his heart away from being perfect with the Lord his God sufficient cause had hee to say that among the said thousand women found he not one vpright Hee saith not that among a thousand women neuer any man found one worthy of commendation but speakes in the first person singularly I haue not found meaning in his owne experience for this assertion is to be holden a part of the confession of his former follies and no otherwise his repentance being the intended drift of Ecclesiastes Thus hauing by Gods assistance remoued those stones whereat some haue stumbled others broken their shinnes I will proceede toward the period of my intended taske which is to decipher the excellency of women of whose Creation I will for orders sake obserue First the efficient cause which was God Secondly the materiall cause or that whereof shee was made Thirdly the formall cause or fashion and proportion of her feature Fourthly and lastly the finall cause the end or purpose for which she was made To beginne with the first The efficient cause of womans creation was Iehouah the Eternall the truth of which is manifest in Moses his narration of the sixe dayes workes where he saith God created them male and female And Dauid exhorting all the earth to sing vnto the Lord meaning by a Metonimie earth all creatures that liue on the earth of what nation or Sex soeuer giues this reason For the Lord hath made vs. That worke then can not chuse but be good yea very good which is wrought by so excellent a workeman as the Lord for he being a glorious Creator must needes effect a worthie creature Bitter water can not proceede from a pleasant sweete fountaine nor bad worke from that workman which is perfectly good in proprietie none but he Secondly the materi●ll cause or matter whereof woman was made was of a refined mould if I may so speake for man was created of the dust of the earth but woman was made of a part of man after that he was a liuing soule yet was shee not produced from Adams foote to be his too low inferiour nor from his head to be his superiour but from his side neare his heart to be his equall that where he is Lord she may be Lady and therefore saith God concerning man and woman iointly Let them rule ouer the fish of the Sea and ouer the foules of the Heauen and ouer euery beast that moueth vpon the earth By which words he makes their authority equall and all creatures to be in subiection vnto them both This being rightly considered doth teach men to make such account of their wiues as Adam did of Eue This is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh As also that they neyther doe or wish any more hurt vnto them then vnto their owne bodies for men ought to loue their wiues as themselues because hee that loues his wife loues himselfe And neuer man hated his owne flesh which the woman is vnlesse a monster in nature Thirdly the formall cause fashion and proportion of woman was excellent For she was neyther like the beasts of the earth foules of the ayre fishes of the Sea or any other inferiour creature but Man was the onely obiect which she did resemble For as God gaue man a lofty countenance that hee might looke vp toward Heauen so did he likewise giue vnto woman And as the temperature of mans body is excellent so is womans For whereas other Creatures by reason of their grosse humours haue excrements for their habite as foules their feathers beasts their haire fishes their scales man and woman onely haue their skinne cleare and smoothe And that more is in the Image of God were they both created yea and to be briefe all the parts of their bodies both externall and internall were correspondent and meete each for other Fourthly and lastly the finall cause or end for which woman was made was to glorifie God and to be a collaterall companion for man to

Christ after his Resurrection haue appeared vnto a woman first of all other had it not beene to declare thereby that the benefites of his death and resurrection are as auaileable by beleefe for women as for men for hee indifferently died for the one sex as well as the other Yet a truth vngainesayable is it that the Man is the Womans Head by which title yet of Supremacie no authoritie hath hee giuen him to domineere or basely command and imploy his wife as a seruant but hereby is he taught the duties which hee oweth vnto her For as the head of a man is the imaginer and contriuer of proiects profitable for the safety of his whole body so the Husband must protect and defend his Wife from iniuries For he is her Head as Christ is the Head of his Church which hee entirely loueth and for which hee gaue his very life the decrest thing any man hath in this world Greater loue then this hath no man when he bestoweth his life for his friend saith our Sauiour This president passeth all other patternes it requireth great benignity and enioyneth an extraordinary affection For men must loue their wiues euen as Christ loued his Church Secondly as the Head doth not iarre or contend with the members which being many as the Apostle saith yet make but one bodie no more must the husband with the wife but expelling all bitternesse and cruelty hee must liue with her louingly and religiously honouring her as the weaker vessell Thirdly and lastly as hee is her Head hee must by instruction bring her to the knowledge of her Creator that so she may be a fit stone for the Lords building Women for this end must haue an especiall care to set their affections vpon such as are able to teach them that as they grow in yeares they may grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ Iesus our Lord. Thus if men would remember the duties they are to performe in being heads some would not stand a tip-toe as they doe thinking themselues Lords Rulers and account euery omission of performing whatsoeuer they command whether lawfull or not to be matter of great disparagement and indignity done them whereas they should consider that women are enioyned to submit themselues vnto their husbands no otherwaies then as to the Lord so that from hence for man ariseth a lesson not to bee forgotten that as the Lord commandeth nothing to be done but that which is right and good no more must the husband for if a wife fulfill the euill command of her husband shee obeies him as a tempter as Saphira did Ananias But least I should seeme too partiall in praysing women so much as I haue though no more then warrant from Scripture doth allow I adde to the premises that I say not all women are vertuous for then they should be more excellent then men sith of Adams sonnes there was Cain as well as Abel and of Noahs Cham as well as Sem so that of men as of women there are two sorts namely good and bad which in Mathew the fiue and twenty chapter are comprehended vnder the name of Sheepe and Goats And if women were not sinfull then should they not need a Sauiour but the Virgin Mary a patterne of piety reioyced in God her Sauiour Ergo she was a sinner In the Reuelation the Church is called the Spouse of Christ and in Zachariah wickednesse is called a woman to shew that of women there are both godly and vngodly For Christ would not Purge his Floore if there were not Chaffe among the Wheate nor should gold neede to bee fined if among it there were no drosse But farre be it from any one to condemne the righteous with the wicked or good women with the bad as the Bayter of women doth For though there are some scabbed sheepe in a Flocke we must not therefore conclude all the rest to bee mangie And though some men through excesse abuse Gods creatures wee must not imagine that all men are Gluttons the which wee may with as good reason do as condemne all women in generall for the offences of some particulars Of the good sort is it that I haue in this booke spoken and so would I that all that reade it should so vnderstand me for if otherwise I had done I should haue incurred that woe which by the Prophet Isaiah is pronounced against them that speake well of euill and should haue instified the wicked which thing is abhominable to the Lord. The Epilogue or vpshut of the premises GReat was the vnthankefulnesse of Pharaohs Butler vnto Ioseph for though hee had done him a great pleasure of which the Butler promised requitall yet was hee quite forgotten of him But farre greater is the ingratitude of those men toward God that dare presume to speake and exclaime against Woman whom God did create for mans comfort What greater discredit can redound to a workeman then to haue the man for whom hee hath made it say it is naught or what greater discurtesie can be offered to one that bestoweth a gift then to haue the receiuer giue out that hee cares not for it For he needes it not And what greater ingratitude can bee shewed vnto GOD then the opprobrious speeches and disgracefull inuectiues which some diabolicall natures doe frame against women Ingratitude is and alwayes hath beene accounted so odious a vice that Cicero saith If one doubt what name to giue a wicked man let him call him an vngratefull person and then hee hath said enough It was so detected among the Persians as that by a Law they prouided that such should suffer death as felons which prooued vnthankefull for any gift receiued And Loue saith the Apostle is the fulfilling of the Lawe But where Ingratitude is harbored there Loue is banished Let men therefore beware of all vnthankefulnesse but especially of the superlatiue ingratitude that which is towards God which is no way more palpably declared then by the contemning of and rayling against women which sinne of some men if to be termed men no doubt but God will one day auenge when they shall plainely perceiue that it had been better for them to haue been borne dumbe and lame then to haue vsed their tongs and hands the one in repugning the other in writing against Gods handie worke their owne flesh women I meane whom God hath made equall with themselues in dignity both temporally and eternally if they continue in the faith which God for his mercie sake graunt they alwayes may to the glory of their Creator and comfort of their owne soules through Christ Amen To God onely wise be glorie now and for euer AMEN Certaine QVAERES to the bayter of Women WITH CONFVTATION of some part of his Diabolicall Discipline LONDON Printed by N. O. for Thomas Archer and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head-Pallace 1617. To the