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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96859	A brief treatise of religious womens meetings services & testimonies. According to the scriptures of truth. [A]lso, something concerning womens prophecying and teaching, &c. [W]ith some other things, (distinguishing the holy from the unholy) in the scriptures cited ... / [Wr]itten for the satisfaction of all that desire to be informed, by one, who by the free grace of God is become a searcher of the scriptures, and a lover of truth in the inward parts ...	Wood, Hugh, 17th cent.	1684 (1684)	Wing W3393; ESTC R186836	20,182	51

A Brief TREATISE OF Religious Womens MEETINGS Services Testimonies According to the Scriptures of Truth Also something concerning Womens Prophecying and Teaching c. With some other observable things distinguishing the Holy from the Vnholy in the Scriptures cited And an Objection answer'd which is commonly rais'd from Paul's words 1 Cor. 14. 34 c. and 1 Tim. 2. 12. c. W●itten for the Satisfaction of all that desire to be informed by one who by the free Grace of God is become a Searcher of the Scriptures and a lover of Truth in the inward parts both in the Male and Female and is made a Witness in his day that God is pouring out of his Spirit both upon Sons and Daughters Servants and Hand-maids according to his Promise Joel 2. 28. Acts 2. 17 18. Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle 1684. Womens Meetings in the Practice there of prov'd out of the Scriptures of Truth and also something concerning Womens Prophecying and speaking in the Church and who is permitted and who not with other observable things as they fall in from the Scriptures cited MAry and Elizabeth did meet in the Name of the Lord in the house of Zacharias as you may read Luke 1. 39. And you may see what a blessed Meeting it was Elizabeth was filled with the holy Ghost and did prophesie and Mary did magnifie the Name of the Lord and her Spirit rejoyced in God her Saviour and did likewise prophesie so both of them had the Testimony of Jesus which is the Spirit of Prophesie Rev. 19. 10. Here was the blessed Order Ye may all prophesie one by one that all may learn and all be comforted 1 Cor. 14. 31. This was the Order of Christ's Church who walked and lived in the comely Order the Spirit of Truth dwelling and living in their hearts who led and guided them and and brought them into this Order of the Gospel But when Antichrist came to be set up in mans heart he led them from this Order and preacht against this Order and forbad this Order and persecuted and doth persecute them who are found in this Order calling Christ's comely Order Disorder In Christ's blessed Order Women met together as well as Men and preached and prayed together and prophesied one by one as well as Men. In this Meeting there is no mention made that there was any man at it and yet you may see they were filled with the holy Ghost and did prophesie and speak blessed words one to another as you may read at large in that first Chapter of Luke And though Zacharias was a Priest and righteous before God walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless yet we do not read that he reproved them nor that he forbad them But the Dragon and his Servants are wrath with the Woman the true Church and makes war with them which keep the Commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ Rev. 12. 17. And the testimony of Jesus Christ is the Spirit of Prophesie as before is said which the Lord God hath promised to pour forth upon Daughters as well as Sons upon Hand-maids as well as well as Men-servants Joel 2. 28. Acts 2. 17 18. But the seed of the Woman Christ Jesus will bruise the serpent's head and is a bringing his sons and daughters servants and hand-maidens into the order of his own Gospel again Where two or three are gathered together in my Name there am I said Christ in the midst of them Here was but two that we read of at this Meeting Mary and Elizabeth and we see he was in them it is he in them that preacheth and prophesieth it is he in them that speaks or else the Serpent speaks but it was Christ Jesus that spake in those holy women for they were filled with his holy spirit of Truth and prophesied sweetly in his Name It was the serpent that instructed Eve when she taught her husband Adam to break God's command and to eat of the fruit of the forbidden Tree and you may see what was the end of such eating O cursed Doctrine for they were both driven out of the Garden of God to the ground that brought for thorns thistles it is to be lamented that we have too many teachers such as Eve was in this our Age Day and Generation both of men and women as clearly appeareth by the fruits their inward ground bringeth forth to wit Bryars Thorns and Thistles but such Earth said Paul Heb. 6. 8. is rejected and is nigh unto cursing whose end is to be burned Such Teaching as this such Doctrine as this is forbidden both by Law and Gospel whether it proceed from men or women The Women who live in Pride and in the Vanities of their Minds cannot be teachers of good things But Women who are turned to Christ Jesus and by him redeem'd out of the vanities of this present evil World out of the Lusts of the Flesh out of the Lusts of the Eyes and out of the Pride of Life being fill'd with the spirit of Truth such womens teaching such womens praying and prophecying in the Church is not forbidden neither by Law nor Gospel they being first taught themselves by the eternal free spirit of God which is poured forth upon daughters as well as sons upon hand-maids as well as upon men-servants upon the female as well as upon the male for the man and the woman is all one in the Lord it was the serpent that at first made the difference and it is the serpent and his instructed that keep up the difference And you who are against Womens speaking in the Church what do you think of Anna the Prophetess that good old Wid●ow who spake of Christ to all them that looked for Redemption in Jerusalem Do you think this good old Woman did right in so doing This Woman knew him and gave thanks to the Lord even in the Temple and spoke in the Temple of him even publickly to them all and yet we do not read that she was judged and rebuked for so doing neither was she hurried and put out of Doors nor put in Prison nor banished out of the Town good old Simeon who was inspired with the Spirit of God reproved her not neither did he forbid her but they joyned in their Testimony being filled by the same Spirit and gave thanks to the Lord together and spake of Christ one by one both being in the Temple together the one spake after the other as they were moved by the same Spirit of God and as the holy Ghost revealed unto them so they brought it forth they neither added nor diminished And here was the good Order the comely and lively Order the Man and the Woman in the Restoration by Christ Jesus made Meet-helps one to another in the work of the Gospel joyning their Testimony together speaking and prophecying of Christ in the Temple to all them who looked for Redemption in Jerusalem they are