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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

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 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 1667. Womens Speaking Iustified 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 Apostles 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 owne 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 inclinable 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 shouldest 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 prenounced 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 VVoman forsaken and grieved in Spirit and as a wife of Youth Isa 5.4 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 Temale and said For this cause shall a Man leave Father and Mother

and Philip had four Daughters that were Prophets such would be despised which the Apostle did not forbid And if it were to all Women that no Woman might speak then Paul would have contradicted himself but they were such Women that the Apostle mentions in Timothy That grew wanton and were busie-bodies and tatlers and kicked against Christ For Christ in the Male and in the Female is one and he is the Husband and his Wife is the Church and God hath said that his Daughters should Prophesie as well as his Sons And where he hath poured forth his Spirit upon them they must prophesie though blind Priests say to the contrary and will not permit holy Women to speak And whereas it is said I permit not a Woman to speak as saith the Law but where Women are led by the Spirit of God they are not under the Law for Christ in the Male and in the Female is one and where he is made manifest in Male and Female he may speak for he is the end of the Law for Righteousness to all them that believe So here you ought to make a distinction what sort of Women are forbidden to speak such as were under the Law who were not come to Christ nor to the Spirit of Prophesie For Hulda Miriam and Hanna were Prophets who were not forbidden in the time of the Law for they all prophesied in the time of the Law as you may read in 2 Kings 22. what Hulda said unto the Priest and to the Ambassadors that were sent to her from the King Go saith she and tell the Man that sent you to me Thus saith the Lord God of Israel Behold I will bring evil upon this place and on the Inhabitants thereof even all the words of the Book which the King of Judah hath read because they have forsaken me and have burnt Incence to other Gods to anger me with all the works of their hands Therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place and shall not be quenched But to the King of Judah that sent you to me to ask counsel of the Lord so shall you say to him Thus saith the Lord God of Israel Because thy heart did melt and thou humblest thy self before the Lord when thou heardest what I spake against this place and against the Inhabitants of the same how they should be destroyed Behold I will receive thee to thy Father and thou shalt be put into thy Grave in peace and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place Now let us see if any of you blind Priests can speak after this manner and see if it be not a better Sermon then any of you can make who are against Womens speaking And Isaiah that went to the Prophetess did not forbid her Speaking or Prophesying Isa 8. And was it not prophesied in Joel 2. that Hand maids should Propesie And are not Hand-maids Women Consider this ye that are against Womens Speaking how in the Acts the Spirit of the Lord was poured forth upon Daughters as well as Sons In the time of the Gospel when Mary came to salute Elizabeth in the Hill Country in Judea and when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary the Babe leaped in her Womb and she was filled with the Holy Spirit and Elizabeth spoke with a loud voice Blessed art thou amongst Women blessed is the fruit of thy Womb whence is this to me that the Mother of my Lord should come to me for lo as soon as thy Salutation came to my ear the Babe leaped in my Womb for joy for blessed is she that believes for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. And this was Elizabeths Sermon concerning Christ which at this day stands upon Record● And then Mary said My soul doth magnifie the Lord and my Spirit rejoyceth in God my Saviour for he hath regarded the low estate of his Hand-maid for behold from henceforth all Generations shall call me blessed for he that is mighty hath done to me great things and holy is his Name and his Mercy is on them that fear him from Generation to Generation he hath shewed strength with his Arm he hath scattered the proud in the imaginations of their own hearts he hath put down the mighty from their Seats and exalted them of low degree he hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away He hat holpen his Servant Israel in remembrance of his mercy as he spake to his Father to Abraham and to his Seed for ever Are you not here beholding to the Woman for her Sermon to use her words to put into your Common Prayer and yet you forbid Womens Speaking Now here you may see how those two women prophesied of Christ and Preached better then all the blind Priests did in that Age and better then this Age also who are beholding to women to make use of their words And see in the Book of Ruth how the women blessed her in the Gate of the City of whose stock came Christ The Lord make the woman that is come into thy House like Rachel and Loah which built the house of Israel and that thou mayest doworthily in Ephrata and be famous in Bethlehem let thy house be like the house of Pharez whom Tamer bare unto Judah of the Seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman And blessed be the Lord which hath not left thee this day without a Kinsman and his Name shall be continued in Israel And also see in the first Chapter of Samuel how Hannah prayed and spake in the Temple of the Lord Oh Lord of Hosts if thou wilt look on the trouble of thy Hand maid and remember me and not forget thy Hand-maid And read in the second Chapter of Samuel How she rejoyced in God and said My heart rejoyceth in the Lord My Horn is exalted in the Lord and my mouth is enlarged over my enemies because I rejoyce in thy Salvation there is none holy as the Lord yea there is none besides thee and there is no God like our God Speak no more presumptously let not arrogancy come out of your mouths for the Lord is a God of knowledge and by him enterprises are established the Bow and the mighty Men are broken and the weak hath girded to themselves strength they that were full are hired forth for bread and the hungry are no more hired so that the barren hath born seven and she that had many Children is feeble the Lord killeth and maketh alive bringeth down to the Grave and raiseth up the Lord maketh poor and maketh rich bringeth low and exalteth he raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth up the Beggar from the dunghil to set them among Princes to make them inherit the seat of Glory for the Pillars of the earth are the Lords he hath set the world upon them he will keep the feet of his

and shall cleave unto his Wife and they twain shall be one flesh wherefore they are no more twain but one flesh What therefore God hath joyned together let no man put as under Mat. 19. Again Christ Jesus when he came to the City of Samaria where Jacobs Well was where the Woman of Samaria was you may read in John 4. how he was pleased to preach the Everlasting Gospel to her and when the Woman said unto him I know that when the Messiah cometh which is called Christ when he cometh he will tell us all things Jesus saith unto her I that speak unto thee am he This is more than ever he said in plain words to Man or Woman that we read of before he suffered Also he said unto Martha when she said she knew that her Brother should rise again in the last day Jesus said unto her I am the Resurrection and the Life he that believeth on me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth shall never die Believest thou this she answered Yea Lord I believe thou art the Christ the Son of God Here she manifested her true and saving Faith which few at that day believed so on him John 11.25 26. Also that Woman that came unto Jesus with an Alabaster Box of very precious Oyntment and poured it on his Head as he sat at meat it 's manifested that this Woman knew more of the secret Power and Wisdom of God then his Disciples did that were filled with indignation against her and therefore Jesus saith Why do ye trouble the Woman for she hath wrought a good work upon me Verily I say unto you Wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in the whole World there shall also this that this Woman hath done he told for a memorial of her Matt. 26. Mark 14.3 Luke saith further She was a sinner and that she stood at his feet behind him weeping and began to wash his feet with her tears and did wipe them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and annointed them with Oyntment And when Jesus saw the Heart of the Pharisee that hath bidden him to his house he took occasion to speak unto Simon as you may read in Luke 7. and he turned to the woman and said Simon seest thou this Woman Thou gavest me no water to my feet but she hath washed my feet with tears and wiped them with the hair of her head Thou gavest me no kiss but this Woman since I came in hath not ceased to kiss my Feet My Head with Oyl thou didst not annoint but this Woman hath annointed my Feet with Oyntment wherefore I say unto thee her sins which are many are forgiven her for she hath loved much Luke 7.37 to the end Also there was many women wich followed Jesus from Galilee ministring unto him and stood a far off when he was Crucified Mat. 28.55 Mark 15. Yea even the women of Jerusalem wept for him insomuch that he said unto them Weep not for me ye Daughters of Jerusalem but weep for your selves and for your Children Luke 23.28 And certain Women which had been healed of evil Spirits and Infirmities Mary Magdalen and Joanna the Wife of Chuza Herods Stewards Wife and many others which ministred unto him of their substance Luke 8.2 3. Thus we see that Jesus owned the Love and Grace that appeared in Women and did not despise it and by what is recorded in the Scriptures he received as much love kindness compassion and tender dealing towards him from Women as he did from any others both in his life time and also after they had exercised their cruelty upon him for Mary Magdalene and Mary the Mother of Joses beheld where he was laid And when the Sabbath was past Mary Migdalen and Mary the Mother of James and Salom had brought sweet spices that they might annoint him And very early in the morning the first day of the week they came unto the Sepulchre at the rising of the Sun And they said among themselves who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the Sepulchre And when they looked the stone was rolled away for it was very great Mark 16.1 2 3 4. Luke 24.1 2. and they went down into the Sepulchre and as Matthew saith The Angel rolled away the stone and he said unto the Women Fear not I know whom ye seek Jesus which was Crucified he is not here he is risen Mat. 28. Now Luke saith thus That there stood two men by them in shining apparel and as they were perplexed and afraid the men said unto them He is not here remember how he said unto you when he was in Galilee That the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and the third day rise again and they remembred his words and returned from the Sepulchre and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the Mother of James and the other Women that were with them which told these things to the Apostles And their words seemed unto them as idle tales and they believed them not Mark this ye despisers of the weakness of Women and look upon your selves to be so wise but Christ Jesus doth not so for he makes use of the weak for when he met the women after he was risen he said unto them All Hail and they came and held him by the Feet and worshipped him then said Iesus unto them Be not afraid go tell my Brethren that they go into Gallilee and there they shall see me Mat. 28.10 Mark 16.9 And John saith when Mary was weeping at the Sepulchre that Iesus said unto her Woman why weepest thou what seekest thou And when she supposed him to be the Gardiner Jesus saith unto her Mary she turned her self and saith unto him Rabboni which is to say master Jesus saith unto her Teach me not for I am not yet ascended to my Father but go to my Brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and your Father and to my God and your God Iohn 20.16 17. Mark this you that despise and oppose the Message of the Lord God that he sends by women what had become of the Redemption of the whole Body of Man-kind if they had not believed the Message that the Lord Iesus sent by these women of and concerning his Resurrection And if these women had not thus out of their tenderness and bowels of love who had received Mercy and Grace and so giveness of sins and Virtue and Healing from him which many men also had received the like if their hearts had not been so united and knit unto him in love that they could not depart as the men did but sat watching and waiting and weeping about the Sepulchre untill the time of his Resurrection and so● were ready to carry his Message as in manifested else how should his Disciples have known who were