Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	cover_v	head_n	uncover_v	1,517	5	12.7868	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41073	VVomens speaking justified, proved and allowed of by the Scriptures all such as speak by the spirit and power of the Lord Iesus : 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.	1667 (1667)	Wing F643; ESTC R29424	14,834	17

not there Oh! blessed and glorified be the Glorious Lord for this may all the whole body of mankind say though the wisdom of man that never knew God is alwayes ready to except against the weak but the weakness of God is stronger than men and the foolishness of God is wiser then men And in Act. 18. you may read how Aquila and Priscilla took unto them Apollos and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly who was an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures yet we do not read that he despised what Priscilla said because she was a Woman as many now do And now to the Apostles words which is the ground of the great Objection against Womens speaking And first I Cor. 14. let the Reader seriously read that Chapter and see the end and drift of the Apostle in speaking these words for the Apostle is their exhorting the Corinthians unto charity and to defire Spiritual gifts and not to speak in an unknown tongue and not to be Children in understanding but to be Children in malice but in understanding to be men and that the Spirits of the Prophets should be subject to the Prophets for God is not the Author of Confusion but of Peace And then he saith Let your Women keep silence in the Church c. Where it doth plainly appear that the women as well as others that were among them were in confusion for he saith How is it Brethren when ye come together every one of you hath a Psalm hath a Doctrine hath a Tongue hath a Revelation hath an Interpretation let all things be done to edifying Here was no edifying but all was in confusion speaking together Therefore he saith If any man speak in an unknown Tongue let it be by two or at most by three and that by course and let one Interpret but if there be no Interpreter let him keep filence in the Church Here the Man is commanded to keep silence as well as the woman when they are in confusion and out of order But the Apostle saith further They are commanded to be in Obedience as also saith the Law and 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 Here the Apostle clearly manifests his intent for he speaks of women that were under the Law and in that Transgression as Eve was and such as were to learn and not to speak publickly but they must first ask their Husbands at home and it was a shanie for such to speak in the Church And it appears clearly that such women were speaking among the Corinthians by the Apostles exhorting them from malice and strife and confusion and he preacheth the Law unto them and he saith in the Law it is written With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people vers 2. And what is all this to Womens Speaking that have the Everlasting Gospel to preach and upon whom the Promise of the Lord is fulfilled and his Spirit poured upon them according to his word Acts 2.16 17 18. And if the Apostle would have stopped such as had the Spirit of the Lord poured upon them why did he say just before If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by let the first hold his peace and you may all prophesie one by one Here he did not say that such Women should not Prophesie as had the Revelation and Spirit of God poured upon them but their Women that were under the Law and in the Transgression and were in strife confusion and malice in their speaking for if he had stopt Womens praying or prophesying why doth he say Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonoureth his head but every Woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head Judge in your selves Is it comely that a Woman pray or prophesie uncovered For the Woman is not without the Man neither is the Man without the Woman in the Lord 1 Cor. 11.3 4 13. Also that other Scripture in 1 Tim. 2. where he is exhorting that Prayer and Supplication be made every where lifting up holy Hands without wrath and doubting he saith in the like manner also That Women must adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefastness and sobriety not with broidered hair or gold or pearl or costly array He saith Let Women learn in silence with all subjection but I suffer not a Woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the Man but to be in silence for Adam was first formed then Eve and Adam was not deceived but the Woman being deceived was in the transgression Here the Apostle speaks particularly to a Woman in Relation to her husband to be in subjection to him and not to teach nor usurp authority over him and therefore he mentions Adam and Eve But let it be strained to the utmost as the opposers of Womens Speaking would have it that is That they should not preach nor speak in the Church of which there is nothing here Yet the Apostle is speaking to such as he is teaching to wear their apparel what to wear and what not to wear such as were not come to wear modest apparel and such as were not come to shamefastness and sobriety but he was exhorting them from broidered hair gold and pearls and costly array and such are not to usurp authority over the Man but to learn in silence with all subjection as it becometh Women professing Godliness with good works And what is all this to such as have the Power and Spirit of the Lord Jesus poured upon them and have the Message of the Lord Jesus given unto them must not they speak the Word of the Lord because of these undecent and unreverent Women that the Apostle speaks of and to in these two Scriptures And how are the men of this Generation blinded that bring these Scriptures and pervert the Apostles Words and corrupt his intent in speaking of them and by these Scriptures endeavour to stop the Message and Word of the Lord God in Women by contemning and despising of them If the Apostle would have had Womens speaking stopt and did not allow of them why did he entreat his true Yoak-fellow to help those Women who laboured with him in the Gospel Phil. 4.3 And why did the Apostles joyn together in Prayer and Suppication with the Women and Mary the Mother of Jesus and with his B●ethren Acts 1.14 if they had not allowed and had union and fellowship with the Spirit of God wherever it was revealed in Women as well as others But all this opposing and gain-saying of Womens Speaking hath risen out of the bottomless Pit and spirit of Darkness that hath spoken for these many hundred years together in this night of Apostacy since the Revelations have ceased and been bid and so that spirit hath limited and bound all up within its bond and compass and so would suffer none to