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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

the Lord and maintain the false Prophets at their Table or otherwise and all them who run greedily after the Error of Balaam for Reward and all them who speak evil of the things they know not all the Gehazians who covet Silver Gold and Apparel and continue to be covered with the Leprosie of Sin to the day of their Death These who were Lepers were shut out under the Law and now they are shut out by the Spirit of God none of these can be permitted to speak in Christ's Church and all them who deny the new Law of Christ and Covenant of God to be written in the Hearts of Men and Women and all them who deny the Unction of the holy One and the leadings and guidings of the Spirit of Truth that leads into all Truth to be alone all-sufficient and all such Ministers as break Christ's Command and justifie themselves in so do doing as in calling one another Master James and Master John c. None of these while in that state may or can be permitted to speak in the Church of God but if they do they are to be testified against and all them that look for Gain and seeks for Gain from their Quarters and teach for Hire and divine for Money and all them who exercise Lordship over God's Heritage and all them who beat their fellow-Servants and eat and drink with the Drunkards and all them who steal the Words one from another and say Thus saith the Lord when the Lord never spake to them and all them who use unsound Words and slattering Titles to please Men and keep not the form of sound words and all them that have a form of Godliness denying the Power I say none of these may or can be permitted to speak in the Church of God and all those who deny Scripture-Testimony concerning Christ and undervalue his divine Precepts and Commands None of these may or can be permitted to speak in Christ's Church But I had almost forgot to tell you and did forget till the Spirit of Truth brought it to my remembrance that it is impossible that either Male or Fe●ale can speak in Christ's Church till ●hey be redeemed out of all these for the ●●ue Church is in God and God is in his ●wn Kingdom where the rebellious and ●nd disobedient and unclean cannot en●er nor any Man nor Woman can enter Gods Kingdom till they be born again ●nd made new in Christ Jesus To be short all who deny the Prophets Doctrine or Christ's Doctrine his di●ine Precepts recorded in holy Scripture ●r deny the Apostles Doctrine I say ●●ch are not to be permitted to speak in ●he solemn Assemblies of the Saints and ●lthough they confess all to be true yet if ●hey walk contrary in Life and Practice ●hey are to be silent in the solemn Assem●lies of the Righteous And all the Women that live in Pride and in Covetousness and in the vain Adornings of their outward Bodies and all that are drunken with the Cares and carnal Pleasures of this present evil World and all who useth Usurpation over the Man outward or inward are to be silent and not to speak in the Congregations of the Righteous Whoever they be Man or Woman that are found in the first Adam's nature in the fall they not witnessing a Death to that first Birth in them and a Resurrection throug● Jesus Christ unto Life in some measure● I say be they man or woman the Spirit o● God forbids them speaking in the Church And as the Man and the Woman are a● one in the Lord being filled by the sam● Spirit of God may speak in the Churc● as the Spirit of God gives them utterance● it being not they that speak but Christ i● them the Spirit of Truth in them So the Man and the Woman are all one in old Adam in the fall and such old Creatures may not nor can be permitted to speak in the Church Isa 49. 22 23. Thus saith the Lord God Behold I will lift up mine Hand to the Gentiles and set up my Standard to the People and they shall bring thy Sons in their Bosom and thy Daughters shall be carried upon their Shoulders and Kings shall be thy Nursing-Fathers and their Queens thy Nursing-Mothers c. Was it not here foretold that Women also should be nourishers or Nurses in Christ's Church And if they be Nurses they must have something to give to the Children and Milk in their Breasts to the Babes And if a Woman have the Milk of the Word of God in her Breast to wit in her Heart let her not hide nor keep it back but she must give it forth to ●●e hungry Babes for if she do not her ●reasts will grow dry O! my Soul and Life hath travelled with ●he Lord that I might see this day fulfilled ●hat this barren VVilderness might become ● fruitful Field that Kings and Queens ●rinces and their Princesses Dukes and ●heir Dutchesses and all other great Men ●nd great Women of all Ranks and De●rees whatsoever among whom I have ●welt in the outward from my birth might ●ome to receive the Word of Life in them●elves and partake of the Promise in Christ Jesus in his Church and that they may ●ome to witness that noble Birth brought forth in them that partakes of the Milk of ●he Word of God and would cause it to issue abundantly to nourish the hungry Babes and Children of Christ O Lord God! I wait for thy Salvation to see thee perform that word that sprung in my heart concerning them even that the Wilderness should become a fruitful Field and that the fruitful Field shall become a Wilderness It is with thee O Lord to do that which no other can do even to bring down the high Mountains and to level the high Hills and to make thy Way thorow them and to exalt thy Glory in the whole Earth for thou art God and there is none else with thee all things are possible glory to thy great Name forever and evermore saith my Soul Joel 2. 28. Acts 2. 17 18. And it shal come to pass that in the last days saith God I will pour out of my Spirit upon all Flesh and your Sons and your Daughters shall Prophecy and your Young Men shall see Visions and your Old Men shall dream Dreams and on my Servants and on my Hand-maidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit and they shall Prophecy And now in this Age and in our Day the Lord is fulfilling his Promise and his Spirit is poured forth upon many Sons and Daughters Servants and Hand-maidens The Earnest Penny is already received and many of them are runing to and fro and trading with their heavenly Penny their heavenly Gift that the may bring the Increase and Gain to their Lord and Master Christ Jesus And W● will be to them who hide their Lords Money in the Earth and put their Candl● under a Bushel of Earth and Wo also will be to them who stop forbid and disturb th● Sons and Daughters Servants and Handmaidens of the Lord in their going to and fro and improving their Lords money to wit their heavenly Gift that knowledg● may be encreased I say wo and misery will be the portion of such who distrub and stop them in their Travel if they Repent not Psal 2. 10 11 12. Be Wise now therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the Earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with Trembling kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish from the Way When his wrath is kindled but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him If you rebel against him till his Wrath be kindled against you he will break you dash you to pieces one against another like a Potters Vessel And now you may see that the Promise is to Daughters as well as to Sons to Handmaidens as well as to Men-servants and that the one shall prophesie as truly as the other Hugh Wood. THE END

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