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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	apostle_n	speak_v	word_n	9,283	5	4.1967	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41072	Womens speaking justified, proved and allowed of by the Scriptures, all such as speak by the spirit and power of the Lord Jesus and how women were the first that preached the tidings of the resurrection of Jesus, and were sent by Christ's own command, before he ascended to the Father, John 20:17.	Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.; Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702. A touch-stone.	1666 (1666)	Wing F642; ESTC R31506	14,857	16

his Message as is manifested else how should his Disciples have known who were not there Oh! blessed and glorified be the Glorious Lord for this may all the whole body of man-kind say though the wisdom of man that never knew God is alwayes ready to except against the weak but the weakness of God is stronger then men and the foolishness of God is wiser then men And in Act. 18. you may read how Aquila and Priscilla took unto them Apollos and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly who was an elloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures yet we do not read that he despised what Priscilla said because she was a Woman as many now do And now to the Apostles words which is the ground of the great Objection against Womens Speaking And first 1 Cor. 14. let the Reader seriously read that Chapter and see the end and drift of the Apostle in speaking these words for the Apostle is there exhorting the Corinthians unto charity and to desire Spiritual gifts and not to speak in an unknown tongue and not to be Children in understanding but to be Children in malice but in understanding to be men and that the Spirits of the Prophets should be subject to the Prophets for God is not the Author of Confusion but of Peace And then he saith Let your Women keep silence in the Church c. Where it doth plainly appear that the Women as well as others that were among them were in confusion for he saith How is it Brethren when ye come together every one of you hath a Psalm hath a Doctrine hath a Tongue hath a Revelation hath an Interpretation let all things be done to edifying Here was no edifying but all was in confusion speaking together Therefore he saith If any man speak in an unknown Tongue let it be by two or at most by three and that by course and let one Interpret but if there be no Interpreter let him keep silence in the Church Here the Man is commanded to keep silence as well as the Woman when they are in cofusion and out of order But the Apostle saith further They are commanded to be in Obedience as also saith the Law and if they will learn any thing let them ask their Husbands at home for it is a shame for a Woman to speak in the Church Here the Apostle clearly manifests his intent for he speaks of Women that were under the Law and in that Transgression as Eve was and such as were to learn and not to speak publickly but they must first ask their Husbands at home and it was a shame for such to speak in the Church And it appears clearly that such Women were speaking among the Corinthians by the Apostles exhorting them from malice and strife and confusion and he preacheth the Law unto them and he saith in the Law it is written With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people vers 2. And what is all this to Womens Speaking that have the Everlasting Gospel to preach and upon whom the Promise of the Lord is fulfilled and his Spirit poured upon them according to his Word Acts 2. 16 17 18. And if the Apostle would have stopped such as had the Spirit of the Lord poured upon them why did he say just before If any thing be revealed to another that suteth by let the first hold his peace and you may all prophesie one by one Here he did not say that such Women should not Prophecsie as had the Revelation and Spirit of God poured upon them but their Women that were under the Law and in the Transgression and were in strife confusion malice in their speaking for if he had stopt Womens praying or prophesying why doth he say Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonoureth his head but every Woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head Judge in your selves Is it comely that a Woman pray or prophesie uncovered For the Woman is not without the Man neither is the Man without the Woman in the Lord 1 Cor. 11. 3 4 13. Also that other Scripture in 1 Tim. 2. where he is exhorting that Prayer and Supplication be made every where lifting up holy Hands without wrath and doubting he saith in the like manner also That Women must adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefastness and sobriety not with broidered hair or gold or pearl or costly array He saith Let Women learn in silence with all subjection but I suffer not a Woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the Man but to be in silence for Adam was first formed then Eve and Adam was not deceived but the Woman being deceived was in the transgression Here the Apostle speaks particularly to a Woman in Relation to her Husband to be in subjection to him and not to teach nor usurp authority over him and therefore he mentions Adam and Eve But let it be strained to the utmost as the opposers of Womens Speaking would have it that is That they should not preach nor speak in the Church of which there is nothing here Yet the Apostle is speaking to such as he is teaching to wear their apparel what to wear and what not to wear such as were not come to wear modest apparel and such as were not come to shamefastness and sobriety but he was exhorting them from broidered hair gold and pearls and costly array and such are not to usurp authority over the Man but to learn in silence with all subjection as it becometh Women professing Godliness with good works And what is all this to such as have the Power and Spirit of the Lord Jesus poured upon them and have the Message of the Lord Jesus given unto them must not they speak the Word of the Lord because of these undecent and unreverent Women that the Apostle speaks of and to in these two Scriptures And how are the men of this Generation blinded that bring these Scriptures and pervert the Apostles Words and corrupt his intent in speaking of them and by these Scriptures endeavour to stop the Message and Word of the Lord God in Women by contemning and despising of them If the Apostle would have had Womens speaking stopt and did not allow of them why did he entreat his true Yoak-Fellow to help those Women who laboured with him in the Gospel Phil. 4. 3. And why did the Apostles joyn together in Prayer and Supplication with the Women and Mary the Mother of Jesus and with his Brethren Acts 1. 14. if they had not allowed and had union and fellowship with the Spirit of God wherever it was revealed in Women as well as others But all this opposing and gainsaying of Womens Speaking hath risen out of the bottomless Pit and spirit of Darkness that hath spoken for these many hundred years together in this night of Apostacy since the Revelations have ceased and been hid and so that spirit

hath limited and bound all up within its bond and compass and so would suffer none to speak but such as that spirit of Darkness approved of Man or Woman And so here hath been the misery of these last Ages past in the time of the Reign of the Beast that John saw when he stood upon the Sand of the Sea rising out of the Sea and out of the Earth having seven Heads and ten Horns Rev. 13. In this great City of Babylon which is the Woman that hath sitten so long upon the Scarlet-coloured Beast full of names of Blasphemy having seven Heads and ten Horns and this Woman hath been arrayed and decked with gold and pearls and precious stones and she hath had a golden Cup in her hand full of Abominations and hath made all Nations drunk with the Cup of her Fornication and all the world hath wondred after the Beast and hath worshiped the Dragon that gave power to the Beast and this woman hath been drunk with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus and this hath been the woman that hath been speaking and usurping authority for many hundred years together And let the times and ages past testifie how many have been murdered and slain in Ages and Generations past every Religion and Profession as it hath been called killing and murdering one another that would not joyn one with another And thus the Spirit of Truth and the Power of the Lord Jesus Christ hath been quite lost among them that have done this and this mother of Harlots hath sitten as a Queen and said She should see no sorrow but though her dayes have been long even many hundred of years for there was power given unto the Beast to continue forty and two months and to make war with the Saints and to overcome them and all that have dwelt upon the earth have worshiped him whose names are not written in the Book of the Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world But blessed be the Lord his time is over which was above twelve hundred years and the darkness is past and the night of Apostacy draws to an end and the true Light now shines the morning-Light the bright morning-Star the Root and Off-spring of David he is risen he is risen glory to the highest for evermore and the Joy of the morning is come and the Bride the Lambs Wife is making her self ready as a Bride that is adorning for her Husband and to her is granted that she shall be arrayed in fine linnen clean and white and the fine linnen is the Righteousness of the Saints The Holy Jerusalem is descending out of Heaven from God having the Glory of God and her Light is like a Jasper stone clear as Christal And this is that free Woman that all the Children of the Promise are born of not the Children of the bond-woman which is Hagar which genders to strife and to bondage and which answers to Jerusalem which is in bondage with her Children but this is the Jerusalem which is free which is the Mother of us all And so this bond-woman and her children that are born after the flesh have persecuted them that are born after the Spirit even until now but now the bond-woman and her Seed is to be cast out that hath kept so long in bondage and in slavery and under limits this bond-woman and her brood is to be cast out and our Holy City the New Jerusalem is coming down from Heaven and her Light will shine throughout the whole earth even as a Jasper stone clear as Christal which brings freedom and liberty and perfect Redemption to her whole Seed and this is that Woman and Image of the Eternal God that God hath owned and doth own and will own for evermore More might be added to this purpose both out of the Old Testament and New where it is evident that God made no difference but gave his good Spirit as it pleased him both to Man and Woman as Deborah Huldah Sarah The Lord calls by his prophet Isaiah Hearken unto me ye that follow after Righteousness ye that seek the Lord look unto the Rock from whence ye were hewen and to the hole of the Pit from whence ye were digged look unto Abraham your Father and to Sarah that bare you for the Lord will comfort Sion c. Isa 5. And Anna the Prophetess who was a Widow of fourscore and four years of age which departed not from the Temple but served God with fastings and prayers night and day she coming in at that instant when old Simeon took the Child Jesus in his arms and she gave thanks unto the Lord and spake of him to all them who looked for Redemption in Jerusalem Luke 2. 36 37 38. And Philip the Evangelist into whose house the Apostle Paul entered who was one of the Seven Acts. 6. 3. He had four Daughters which were Virgins that did prophesie Acts 21. And so let this serve to stop that opposing Spirit that would limit the Power and Spirit of the Lord Jesus whose Spirit is poured upon all flesh both Sons and Daughters now in his Resurrection and since that the Lord God in the Creation when he made man in his own Image he made them male and female and since that Christ Jesus as the Apostle saith was made of a Woman and the power of the Highest overshadowed her and the holy Ghost came upon her and the holy thing that was born of her was called the Son of God and when he was upon the Earth he manifested his love and his will and his mind both to the Woman of Samaria and Marcha and Mary her Sister and several others as hath been shewed and after his Resurrection also manifested himself unto them first of all even before he ascended unto his Father Now when Jesus was risen the first day of the week he appeared first unto Mary Magdalene Mark 16. 9. And thus the Lord Jesus hath manifested himself and his Power without respect of Persons and so let all mouths be stopt that would limit him whose Power and Spirit is infinite that is pouring it upon all slesh And thus much in answer to these two Scriptures which have been such a stumbling block that the ministers of Darkness have made such a mountain of But the Lord is removing all this and taking it out of the way M. F. A further Addition in Answer to the Objection concerning Women keeping silent in the Church For it is not permitted for them to speak but to be under obedience as also saith the Law If they will learn any thing let them ask their Husbands at home for it is a shame for a Woman to speak in the Church Now this as Paul writeth in 1 Cor. 14. 34. is one with that of 1 Tim. 2. 11. Let Women learn in silence with all subjection TO which I say If you tie this to all outward Women then there were