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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	cover_v	head_n	prophesy_v	1,689	5	11.0692	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48935	The good order of truth justified wherein our womens meetings and order of marriage (by some more especially opposed) are proved agreeable to Scripture and sound reason / by an old and true friend to liberty of conscience, but not to disorder, William Loddington.	Loddington, William, 1626?-1711.	1685 (1685)	Wing L2803; ESTC R21478	11,744	15

by the Law of Nature commands the VVoman to be covered when she prayes or prophecies which Covering vers 10. is called Power on her Head because it was to signifie to all that should come into the Meeting that though she had equal freedom with Man to pray or prophecy yet nevertheless she still was to own and did own the Man's Power over her in visible or temporal things But the Man praying or prophecying is to be uncovered in testimony that there is no Power in any Creature above him And to answer all Objections in ease this his Epistle should come where People did wear no Coverings on their Heads then he directs them to Nature's covering to confirm this Headship The Womans Hair saith he vers 15. is given her for a Covering and she is not to cut it off nor the Man's to be worm of a length like the Womans for that would be a shame in Nature vers 14. for it would signifie he hath lost his Headship Thus we may observe how zealous the Apostle is in this matter there was no need to write this to distinguish their Sex for that was as plainly manifest by their other Garments in those days as well as ours This Headship of Man over the Woman being only in Temporals hinders not their Spiritual Unity So the Headship of God mentioned in the same Verse takes not away the Unity of God and Christ Jesus himself rightly divides this word of Truth for in John 10.29 speaking of his spiritual Power to save his Sheep he saith I and my Father are one But in chap. 14.28 relating to the concerns and sufferings of his Body then he saith My Father ●s greater than I. So Male and Female are all one in Christ that is in Spirituals but Man the Head in Temporals Obj. If any reply This Headship is only to be understood in Family Affairs Ans In granting this they grant the other also unless they will say Man is Head in some small private Concerns but in publick and weighty matters the Woman is to be his equal in Power This renders the Apostle very weak in writing so earnestly for so small a matter which indeed requires no Proof at all But further if this Objection were true then these Gestures of covering and uncovering the Head before commanded should only be used in private Family Prayer or Prophecy where the Headship thereby signified is only to be in force Obj. 2. But I have heard it hinted That Women might be with Men in Meetings of Business provided they were silent as if they were in such Meeting the Apostle relates to when he commands Women to be silent 1 Cor. 14.25 and 1 Tim. 2. Answ Then must they sit as useless Spectators not daring to speak what may open in their Understandings touching any thing among them But a little to explain these Scriptures there is not the least ground to suppose the Apostle diverted his Mind from Meetings of Worship to Meetings of Business when he said Let the Women be silent for in this 14th chapter he writing principally about Prophecy recommends some Circumstances necessary to be observed which he would have every man that thinks himself to be a Prophet or Spiritual to own as Gods commands vers 37. Two Scandals he labours to prevent 1st When any speak with Tongues which he would not forbid though he commends Prophecying in plain known Language before it that there should be an Interpreter ready or else it were better to be silent vers 28. and the Reason is in v. 23. Because if an unlearned Man or an Vnbeliever should come in he would say they were Mad. Mark how careful he is of Truth 's Honour that Unbelievers Mouthes might not be opened against it And 2dly he commands That Women should then be silent that is when any speak with Tongues above their Understanding it is not permitted unto them to speak in the Church that is by way of asking Questions there But if they will learn saith he that is if they have a desire to know the meaning of any thing there spoken in a Tongue unknown to them let them ask Mark ask at home For if a Woman should but ask or desire a Man in the Church to explain himself it might be apt to be taken for a Command by Unbelievers if they should come in and so that might occasion another Scandal That Christian Women did usurp Authority over the Men. Wherefore writing to Timothy he requires the same thing to be observed by the Women there telling him That they were to learn in silence with all Subjection or Quietness and not to teach or speak in any such way as might look like usurping Authority over the Men either in the Church or indeed in any other place for that would stumble even Unbelievers they could not endure that And so he gives two Reasons why Man is to have this Headship Because Adam was first formed v. 13. Secondly Because Adam was not deceived that is by the Serpent but the Woman being deceived was in the Transgression v. 14. And this in short is the plain sence and substance of these two Scriptures compared together which are so often mis-applyed to wrong ends and practices this day But now all this doth not forbid a Womens opposing a wrong Spirit if it shall dare to speak in the Church Woman or Child as well as Man in the movings of the Spirit of God may do that Nor doth it forbid a Womans Praying or Prophecying for then he had contradicted what in chap. 11. of the same Epistle he allowed of Thus the Scripture so plainly asserting Man's Headship by true consequence condemns all Practices that overthrow it And truly I often admire that some whom I know to be ingenious and rational in other things should not see how they cloud themselves at present nor foresee the future Inconveniences of such Meetings they contend for Obj. 3. I once heard a kind of arguing against this Headship from the state of Adam and Eve before the fall As if Truth 's Principles did lead us to joyn Man and Woman together now in ordering all things as they two did in Paradise Answ I own Truth presseth to that Perfection in Spirit He that is in Christ is a new Creature as to the spiritual part being baptized into that Spirit which knows no distinctions according to Flesh as of Jew or Greek Bond or Free Male or Female But to turn this into an Argument for outward things and to say if any one be in Christ his outward Body is a new Creature not of the same Flesh and Bones nor liable to the same Distempers as before and so to make void all distinction in the natural Sex States and Conditions is great Darkness and contains such Absurdities as run all into Confusion I shall say no more to this particular There is more light in one Sun than in many Stars Until this Principle of Man's Headship in Temporal things be