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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

their husbands are all comprized under three severall Degrees and therefore the punishments must likewise be of three severall sorts In the first and highest degree are faults all together inexcusable never committed by any vertuous or modest wife never to be endured by any loving or honest husband such are defiling of his marriage bed or any treacherouse exploits against his life and person Now for theise the Law setts down direct punishments For the former divorce from the bond of marriage for the Second expulsion from the Community of wedlock And in neither case are the husbands ingaged for the payment of their dowrie or any ways bound for the reliefe of their povertie Mistake me not I only intend that the prosecution heerof lieth in the husbands power not the execution for that must be consumate in lawfull manner the fact prooved by lawfull witnesse the verdict given by a lawfull Judge So that the Jealousie of husbands touching their wives incontinencie or suspition otherwise concerning their disloyaltye c. before they are actually prooved are not to be accounted actuall faults of the wife but to be adjudged as the braine sick fancies of their husbands Be the suspicion of the one vehement it beareth indeed the better colour and deserveth the sharper trial But for the jealousie of the other it is a common ill humour and therefore in wisdome nothing at all to be esteemed Jealousie is a Child conceived of self unworthynesse and of anothers worth at whose birth feare made it an abortive in nature and a monster in love for the jealouse man unworthily loving a worthily beloved Object stands in feare of communicating his good unto another more worthy So that neither is his love perfect because mixed with feare which love abhorreth nor his fear medicinable because conjoynd with love which feare impoisoneth But of both ariseth this mungrell kind of Jealousie a loving feare or a fearfull love where in contrary to all other actions of man we bend all our diligence and carefullnes to obtaine the full sight and perfect assurance of our own misery we would needs for soth know our selves to be Such Homed Rationalls as we fear our selves to be for of prevention there is no hope as our English worthie can tell us Sure t' is no jealousie can that prevent VVherein two persons one be full content Seeing then that theise imaginations of husbands are not in law the fault of a wife and when it appeares by evidence that they are guilty of such hainouse crimes the Law determines their proper Punishment whatsoever is added beyond that is Illegal and more then the Law requires In the second degree are faults of another nature far inferiour to the former and it of reall moment too such as may be their backwardness in the religious service of God Carelesnesse in managing their house hold affaires Ill behaviour towards their neighbours and friends misdemeanure of themselves towards their husbands c. Theise I conceive to be as so many rootes of weedes planted in the fair garden plott of a womans minde spreading it selfe into many Crooked branches and bearing much bitter fruit In such cases therefore the Law alloweth husbands to use reprehension either sharper or milder according to the nature and qualitie of the offence and as their own modest discretion findes convenient Yet nevertheless theise faults are not so absolutely evill but that they might admitt some kind of excuse according to the severall circumstances that may happen between loving husbands and their loving wives only serving thereby some what to extenuate theise faults tho not peremptorily to defend them and thereby to vindicate their spottless Innocencie For the first there is no man so irreligious but commends a religious especially a religious wife in whom religion is especially needfull both for instruction of her maides and the education of her children But if in such an imagination of religion fall into some peevish zeale thro ignorance or through some small measure of knowledg amount unto womannish resolution it had been better they had been less studious in those pointes where the best fruites of their labours is a plentifull Sheafe of Errours Wherefore for my own part I could never yet bring my self to approove thoose too too holy women-gospellers who weare their testament at their apronstringes insteade of Scissers and will weekly Catechise their husbands citing places clearing difficulties preaching holy sermons c. when the spirit of their devotion mooves them For sure I am the Scripture and the examples of antiquity who observed that Rule held silence to be a womans Chiefest Eloquence and thought it their part to heare more then to speak and to learne rather then to teach As well then too much curiosity of Religion as too much neglect is a fault in women So that if their frailtie leade them into either extreames the husband hath the power of reprehension to keepe them in the golden mean Again if a wife be over frugall it may be supposed it is for the augmenting of her husbands estate and the benefit of his children If she be very bountifull it may be thought she intends her husbands credit and supportance of his estimation Likewise if others mislike her carriage it may be her modesty seemes proude unto them or her familiarity otherwise breedeth contempt Lastly if thro infirmity she fall into any inconvenience some thing is to be imputed to the weaknes of her sexe some matter of excuse there is in the reveness of such an offence In all or either of these aggrievances the husband hath allways the priviledge of reproove which yet ought to be given at all times and in the circumstances and occasions under present consideration with such a spirit of wisdom meeknes tendernes and discretion as that one soft word may sooner perswade and work upon her minde then a frowning Countenance and a frown of his sooner then a sowre and austere demeanure and then what more Soveraigne Balsome can there be in this world then the tender reprehension of a loving husband this must needs be so farr from wounding that it softens cleanseth heales and strengthens and yet the very wounds of a reall constant and long approved friend we reade are more to be preserved then the kisses of an enemie and if this be true as most undoutedly it is how highly is the Precious Oyle of soft reproof to be prized when dropping so sweetly like that honney from those life breathing lipps of a deare and tender Spouse studying with greatest diligence what may make for the reall prosperity of his wifes outward and inward man with all present and future hppynes that can attend her wish in whose felicity the wellfare of his own Soule and life is so much bound up Certainly there can not be found any woman so devoid of reason and judgment but that she will embrace such inestimable Tokens of truest and noblest Love with greater fondnes and affection that the long

armes nor Vulcan on his anvile playd Musick unto the Gods whiles forged was the sword VVhich now with sharp revenge Seconds each hasty word No trumpets then to stirr up warrs were heard no strif But in this Golden Age they livd a golden life And parallell allso to the purity of this golden age was the perfection of man and womans soule For when their bodies were first framed God created there in a lively soule which he stiled the breath of life and that Spirit beeing of an Angelical Essence diffused it self into each part giving motion sence and reason to the whole Now in this naturall marriage of Souls and body the Soul acts the body and the body supports the soule The Soule brought with her a rich dowry for the body quick apprehension deepe understanding and a treasurie fraught with memory The body brought a faire posession for the soule and received her within his habitation and Seated her with in the warlike castle of his heart fortifyed her with the thick bullwark of his breast attended her with waiting faculties as a family of so many servants made his eyes her watchmen his tongue her Orator his ear her sentinel his hands her Champions his feet her lackies his common parts her common vassals Now whosoever we please to take a review of womans first Creation equal unto mans having the same maker the same manner of making better then mans because framd of a better Substance in a place more Excellent and at a more remarkable time and of the Originall of mariage equal to both in as much as both were one flesh and one nature more expresly binding the man unto the royall Law of Love Lastly of the purity of that age from whence all theise testimonies are drawn he will easily Conclude what I have been endeavouring to confirme That man and wife here lived a peaceable life they enjoyed a loving union they lived in purest Love if ever there was made an absolute Law if ever Statute of such perfection as neither errour could corrupt it nor vice deprave it we are sure This was it where God in the ●irst Creation was the Law giver man in his first perfection the Law receiver and Obedient Conformist Thereunto Now whereas our imitation is to be drawn from the best patterns Here may we rest our selves as at the mouth of God and draw sweet waters from the very Fountain head of truth it self And that we may not waver and fructurate as at uncertainties God hath pleased farther to confirme us in the due esteeme of this Sacred Bond of Love by the Testimony of his spirit speaking likewise by the mouth of his great Apostle Paule who tells us that Marriage is a Type of that Mysticall Union that is between Christ our great Husband and his Church the Spouse beeing indeed the stricktest Injunction of mutual Love where was not to be so much as a secret thought or word touching rigorous Predomination our Lord Christ himself al tho the head of deare Spouse yet became a Servant to her in the highest and most eminent offices of Love nor of unkind preheminence for he endowes his church with the same priviledges of Adoption as Himself received in beeing his fathers first born and beloved childe in giving unto her likewise the same glorious Inheritance which his father invested Him withall It was saith St. Augustine a Mysterie of Union a Sacrament of Love a Bond of fidelitie a heavenly Paradice of peace for terme of this present life and the way unto perfection in that better life to come But man you will say by occasion of the woman fall from this integritue and therefore women are not now to exspect from men such duties of amitie True it is the Serpent by long perswasions induced her to a delightful sin of eating the forbidden fruit yet she shewd a stout resistance before she yeelded She made a short and sharp ●nswer to the Serpents cunning demand hath God forbidden you to eate of the fruite of the garden Implying a plaine falsification in his close assertion we may eate of the fruites of the garden but of the fruit of the tree in the midst of Paradise God commanded us not to eate we may not eate least we die From hence she drove the old cunning Serpent to his naturall shift and open traode down right lying you shall not die the death c. Adding there with all' a vaine hope of her knowing some thing which beeing discovered to her would much add to the beauty and perfection of her State and made as if God for that reason had withheld it from her for God doth know that in the day you eat thereo● yee shall be as Gods viz as the Elo him 〈◊〉 knowing good and evil Thus in 〈◊〉 faire combate for a fair time sh● stood out at staffs end with him til● by his stratagemes at lenth gott the glory of the day But Adam as soone as the fruite was proffered unto him did not make any demurr at all not so much as once questioned the matter but strait way tasted the sweetnes thereof whose bitter relish remaines in us to this day I see no reason then but that man all tho he was not first in the trangression should have an equall blame with the woman and perhaps more for the woman was drawn on and deceived with much greater difficultie then the man who suddenly and with less deliberation yelded unto Sin Especially when that generall Prohibition of eating this forbidden fruite was not given unto the woman but to the man THOU shalt not eat of the Tree c. And howsoever St. Gregorie hath it you shall not eate thereof as if it were spoken to both man and woman yet the originall reads it in the singular number And St. Austine tells us that by tradition the woman received this commandement from the man and not immediatly from the mouth of GOD as Adam did This I willingly doe grant and thence allso conclude that for this reason which hath weight in it the woman might Chaunce more easilie to breake this Law then the man Since the Allglorious Majesty of God Commanding can not but have a stronger influence on Adam then Adams command who was but a fellow-creature and One with her selfe could have upon Eve his wife Now the woman was indeed the Occasion of mans sin but not the reall cause and if Adam had but observed the command of God To whom it was in a distinct and perticular manner enjoyned though his wife had broken it ten thousand times yet we had not tasted death and as this is the Common received Opinion of the learned Schoole men and other Interpreters so the Apostle Paul makes the matter I think beyond dispute where he says that by One man sin entered into the world and death by sin and in Adam as our first Root and common head we all Sinned c. not mentioning