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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41854	The Great advocate and oratour for women, or, The Arraignment, tryall and conviction of all such wicked husbands (or monsters) who held it lawfull to beate their wives or to demeane themselves severely and tyrannically towards them where their crafty pleas are fully heard and their objections plainly answered and confuted ...		1682 (1682)	Wing G1631; ESTC R40508	48,310	156

same joy and as in a clear mirrour of sincere good will see a lively picture of his own gladnes For which cause especially as I conceive Isocrates condemned him for a person most lewdly disposed who by his faire speech and Proteus like behaviour hath wooed a virgin and in pompe and Joviality married her his wife and yet will in his folly thro anger and variance live discontentedly with her Seneca termes brawles in marriage worse then divorce from marriage Cato plainly calls it Sacriledge for a husband to beate his wife Such as the soule saith Plutarch in regard of the body such is the husband in respect of his wife both doe live in union in disunion both doe perish True love is the best amatorie or chiefest medicine to breed true love And therefore if thou looke truly to be loved of thy wife first love her truly for else how canst thou require that from her for thy selfe which thou affordest not from thy self to her She may in this case answer thee as L. Crassius the Senator replyed to L. Philippus the Consul how should I shew my self a Senator unto you whereas you behave your self not as a Consul unto me How should a wife proove loving unto her husband when as a husband prooves not loving unto her for both in Love and friendship the demand of Martial unto his Marcus stands with good reason If Phylades thou wilt me have Then Marke I le thee Orestes crave And not in words thou must it proove Wilt be belovd then thou must love Love is a relation and must have two Subjects for its residence as well the husband as the wife if it find not good intertainment with one it departs from both Both therefore must be like Crateres and Hyparchia who where said to see with double eyes because in mutuall love they acquainted one the other with all passages and events that concerned themselves So that as the Prophets in Israel were sacredly intitled Seers because they had a double sight from nature and from God so was Crateres in Athens jestingly termed a Seer because he used a double fight his wives and his own And how soever we exclaime against women that they are unworthy of such respect by reason of the multiplicity of their supposed infirmities such words often flash forth indeed but from the pregnancie of witt not from the soundnes of judgment spoken either from a prejudicate opinion which ever miscarrieth or from particular Example which never concludeth For instance we may hold them unconstant in their resolutions shallow in their judgment lavish of their tongue and with so many weaknesses beweaken this weake Sexe as that we may revive that old Theorem hissed long agoe from of the stage of vertue Of women kind found good there 's none And if perchance there be found one I know not how it comes to passe The thing 's made good that evil was As likewise this following Men have many faults Women have but Two There 's nothing good they Say There 's nothing good they doe c. A flat impiety against the all Creators all sufficiency who when he had built this worlds faire house lookd in every corner thereof and saw that All was good yet they in the fairest roome of all have found that all is naught And if you flie from their first unspotted Creation unto their now corrupted disposition what p●iviledge have men beyond women they are both made of one mettal cast both in the same mould all are not good nor the most the best but if any might challenge preheminence it should seeme the woman might whose complexion is purer which argues a richer witt whose passions are stronger viz of Fear Joy Greef and so by consequence of Love it self pure innocent and strong as death that many waters cannot quench which proclaimes a much better disposition then is in man and is the Topp Gemm of the largest size and appeares more beautyfull then any of the rest in the Crown of Vertue In short dislike them we cannot whom Nature hath so curiously composed and hath sh'ewn as we may say the Perfection of his glorious Workmanship that so their Illustrious Soules in which so great a Spark of the Divinity hath lodgdit self might have a Choise cabbinet or Receptacle whose out side Splendor and beauty might be such as beares some proportionable shadow and resemblance of that Heavenly-Ghuest within Dislike women now who can since in disliikning them if any such there are they more dislike themselves for Nature hath every way much more curiously framed them then us poor men who are the moments of her rougher Workmanship Yet for your pleasures sake suppose women to be as bad as some would make them say they are past all vertuous modesty swear they are beyond all hopefull recovery c. be it so I demand wherefore should they be beaten None but finall puishment in such cases should be inflicted where the person punished cannot be amended Women say some are past amendment and therefore they are past punishment It is an axiome in Philosophy that where the Cause is taken away the effect ceaseth and it is again as firm a position in humanity that amendment is the Chief if not sole cause of every such punishment There beeing then no hope of the one there ought likewise to be exaction of the other Now that women will never be amended it is as common a phrase in some persons mouthes as what lack yee in the Exchange so that it was grown long since to a proverbe They wach a jeat and make it white as snow VVho women beat To make them vice forgoe Aristotle in Oecon. lib. 1. c. 3. and 4 whose words are maxims in Philosophy and his Ipse dixit an authentick proof seemes heerin to soar above himself and leaving his wonted Schoole of humanity to speake from out of the sacred Chaire of Divinity when he sayd The divine Providence so framed man and woman that of necessity they must be of one Society otherwise how could they perpetuate the world by their offsprings succession since neither without woman nor woman without man can have any Issue wherefore they were made both alike and yet dislike alike in specificall nature and alike in the features and liniaments of their bodies and their soules of the same Essence Dislike in the Individual the one hotter and drier the other colder and moyster that out of this disagreeing concord of a diverse temper should proceed the sweet Harmony of Agreeing of Love The one valiant and laborious in the fields the other milde and diligent within the dores that what the one had painfully gotten abroad the other might carefully preserve at home The one fairer and as a delightsome Picture of beauty the other more steme and as a mirror of manhood The one more deeply wise the other of a more quick and pregnant