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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

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. And it shall come to pass in the last dayes saith the Lord I will pour out of my Spirit upon all Flesh your Sons and Daughters shall Prophesie Acts 2. 27. Joel 2. 28. It is written in the Prophets They shall be all taught of God saith Christ John 6. 45. And all thy Children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the Peace of thy Children Isa 54. 13. And they shall teach no more every man his Neighbour and every man his Brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest of them saith the Lord. Jer. 31. 34. London Printed in the Year 1666. Womens Speaking Justified Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures WHereas it hath been an Objection in the minds of many and several times hath been objected by the Clergy or Ministers and others against Womens speaking in the Church and so consequently may be taken that they are condemned for medling in the things of God the ground of which Objection is taken from the Apostles words which he Writ in his first Epistle to the Corinthians chap. 14. vers 34 35. And also what he writ to Timothy in the first Epistle chap. 2. vers 11 12. But how far they wrong the Apostle's intentions in these Scriptures we shall shew clearly when we come to them in their course and order But first let me lay down how God himself hath manifested his Will and Mind concerning Women and unto Women And first When God created Man in his own Image in the Image of God created he them Male and Female and God blessed them and God said unto them Be fruitful and multiply And God said Behold I have given you of every Herb c. Gen. 1. Here God joyns them together in his own Image and makes no such distinctions and differences as men do for though they be weak he is strong and as he said to the Apostle His Grace is sufficient and his strength is made manifest in weakness 2 Cor. 12. 9. And such hath the Lord chosen even the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty and things which are despised hath God chosen to bring to nought things that are 1 Cor. 1. And God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as men would make It is true The Serpent that was more subtile then any other Beast of the Field came unto the Woman with his Temptations and with a lie his subtilty discerning her to be more enclinable to hearken to him when he said If ye eat your eyes shall be opened and the Woman saw that the Fruit was good to make one wise there the temptation got into her and she did eat and gave to her Husband and he did eat also and so they were both tempted into the transgression and disobedience and therefore God said unto Adam when that he hid himself when he heard his voice Hast thou eaten of the Tree which I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat And Adam said The Woman which thou gavest me she gave me of the Tree and I did eat And the Lord said unto the Woman What is this that thou hast done and the Woman said The Serpent beguiled me and I did eat Here the Woman spoke the truth unto the Lord see what the Lord saith vers 15. after he had pronounced Sentence on the Serpent I will put enmity between thee and the Woman and between thy Seed and her Seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel Gen. 3. Let this Word of the Lord which was from the beginning stop the mouths of all that oppose Womens Speaking in the Power of the Lord for he hath put enmity between the Woman and the Serpent and if the Seed of the Woman speak not the Seed of the Serpent speaks for God hath put enmity between the two Seeds and it is manifest that those that speak against the Woman and her Seeds Speaking speak out of the enmity of the old Serpents Seed and God hath fulfilled his Word and his Promise When the fulness of time was come he hath sent forth his Son made of a Woman made under the Law that we might receive the adoption of Sons Gal. 4. 4 5. Moreover the Lord is pleased when he mentions his Church to call her by the name of Woman by his Prophets saying I have called thee as a Woman forsaken and grieved in Spirit and as a Wife of Youth Isa 54. Again How long wilt thou go about thou back-sliding Daughter For the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth a Woman shall compass a Man Jer. 31. 22. And David When he was speaking of Christ and his Church he saith The Kings Daughter is all glorious within her cloathing is of wrought Gold she shall be brought unto the King with gladness and rejoycing shall they be brought they shall enter into the Kings Pallace Psal 45. And also King Solomon in his Song where he speaks of Christ and his Church where she is complaining and calling for Christ he saith If thou knowest not O thou fairest among women go thy way by the footsteps of the Flock Cant. 1. 8. c. 5. 9. And John when he saw the wonder that was in Heaven he saw a Woman clothed with the Sun and the Moon under her feet and upon her head a Crown of twelve Stars and there appeared another wonder in Heaven a great red Dragon stood ready to devour her Child here the enmity appears that God put between the Woman and the Dragon Revelations 12. Thus much may prove that the Church of Christ is a Woman and those that speak against the Womans speaking speak against the Church of Christ and the Seed of the Woman which Seed is Christ that is to say Those that speak against the Power of the Lord and the Spirit of the Lord speaking in a Woman simply by reason of her Sex or because she is a Woman not regarding the Seed and Spirit and Power that speaks in her such speak against Christ and his Church and are of the Seed of the Serpent wherein lodgeth the enmity And as God the Father made no such difference in the first Creation nor never since between the Male and the Female but alwayes out of his Mercy and loving kindness had regard unto the weak So also his Son Christ Jesus confirms the same thing when the Pharisees came to him and asked him if it were lawful for a man to put away his Wife he answered and said unto them Have you not read That he that made them in the beginning made them Male and Female and said For this

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