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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26561	Female pre-eminence, or, The dignity and excellency of that sex above the male an ingenious discourse / written orignally in Latine by Henry Cornelius Agrippa ... ; done into English with additional advantages by H. C.; Declamation de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus. English	Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.; Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1670 (1670)	Wing A784; ESTC R14394	35,504	110

saepe siue ullis Conjugtis vento gravidae Standing on tops of Rocks the wanton Beast Sucks in the gentle Breises of the West Whence she grows pregnant and such Colts you 'l find As fleet and nimble as their Sire the Wind. What shall we say of Speech that divine Faculty differencing us from Brutes whereby the Soul puts conceptions into words and makes her Apprehensions audible which the profound Tresmigistus prizes at no lower rate than Immortality and the Poet Hesiad deservedly stiles our best Treasure I appeal to each Man 's own Experience and some I know have had cause to observe it whether Women are not naturally more eloquent of Speech than Men and their Tongues more apt and volub● to cloath their thoughts in Language and express their sentiments on any occasion How sweet and insinuating ar● their Complements how close an● home their Objurgations how sudden their Answers how ingenious their Retorts how ready their Excuses how neat their Evasions how irresistable their Intreaties Did not every one of us first learn to speak from no other Tutors than our Mothers or Nurses and in this behalf Nature like a carefull Governess so wisely provides for Humanity that scarce ever any of that Sex are found dumb Nor is this sure any mean or vulgar honour but meriting the greatest regard to surpass Men in that wherein Man himself chiefly excells other Creatures But pretermitting these more vulgar and prophane Instances of Feminine superiority let us return to sacred Letters deducing the Rivulets of our Discourse from the very Fountains of Religion where we may observe That Man was first blest for the Womans sake God vouchsafing no benediction on him till after her Creation as if before he had been unworthy that celestial favour Consonant whereunto is that Proverb of Solomon He that finds a good Woman finds a good thing and shall receive a blessing from the Lord. And that in Ecclesiasticus Blessed is the Husband of a good Woman the number of his years shall be doubled Nor indeed can any vye dignity with him whose good fortune 't is to enjoy a good Wife for as the same Siracides saith she is a Grace above all Graces and therefore the wisest of Kings calls her The Crown and the great Apostle The Glory of the Man Now Glory is defined to be the consummation and perfection of a thing acquiescing and delighting in its end viz. when nothing more can be thereto added to augment its perfection Therefore Woman being the Complement Felicity Blessing and Glory of Man 't is but requisite every Man should love and respect her accordingly and he that doth not do so or shall be so barbarous as to hate or dis-esteem her is not only a stranger to all Virtues and Graces but a very Rebel against Humanity Hereto we might perhaps not improperly refer those Cabalistical mysteries how that Abraham was blessed of God in some respect through means of his Wife Sarah for by taking the Letter H from her Name and adding it to his he came to be called Abraham As also that Jacobs blessing was acquired by a Woman his Mother of which sort there are in Scripture several other passages not requisite here to be unfolded This may suffice to let us see that the blessing was bestow'd for the Womans sake but the Law given to the Man to him was forbidden the fruit of that unhappy Tree which set all Posterities Teeth on edge not to the Woman who was not then so much as Created For although St. Gregory read the Prohibition You shall not eat as though it were spoken to both Man and Woman yet the Original delivers it in the singular number And St. A●stin taketh away the Doubt and telleth us That by Tradition the Woman received this Commandment from the Man not by immediate delivery from God which if so we thence conclude That by reason thereof the Woman might chance more easily to break this Law than the Man since the All-glorious Majesty of God that commanded should take deeper impression in Man than the equality of person that related could in the Woman the roaring of a Lion being more trembled at than the braying of an Ass the Commands of a King more powerfull than the words of ones Companion At most when Woman fin'd she did it poor Soul unwittingly being deluded by the insinuating Serpent so that it appears the Man sinned against perfect knowledge and the positive Command of his Maker the Woman out of ignorance seduced by the crafty wiles of the Tempter with whom for a considerable time she disputed the matter and lost not the glory of the day without a fair Com●ate though at last she fell an unhappy Trophy to his stratagems whereas no sooner was that too-pleasing Apple proffered to the Man but without scruple he greedily falls on and Rebel as he was would needs tast its fancied sweetness whose bitter rellish remains to this day and hath left on us those original stains which nothing but Divine Blood can fetch out That Woman was first set upon by the Adversary may be an Argument of her Excellency for we know that the sharpest points are soonest blunted and the perfectest white most easily soil'd Envy strikes at the best who stand on high Are fairest marks for foulest obl●quy The black Prince of the Air that subtle degraded Seraphin well knew Woman to be the most accomplisht of all Creatures and seeing as St. Bernard observes her amazing Beauty to be such as before his Lapse he had beheld in the Divine Light and which above the sublimest Hierarchies enjoys Communion with God did thereupon meerly out of envy plot how he might dismount her from that Throne of Perfection and endeavoured by his malitious Darts first of all to wound her innocency and sully her glory whose transcendent Lustre above others his hellish nature could not but most of all repine at Nor want we further intimation of the fair Sexes Dignity and Pre-eminence if we reflect That when the promised seed of Woman that bruised this cursed Serpents head I mean our blessed Saviour left the bosome of his Eternal Father and the splendo●s of inaccessible Light to become visible in these lower Regions and veiling the Majesty of his glorious presence cloath'd himself with humane flesh coming into the World in the lowliest manner imaginable that by his humility he might expiate the pride of our first Parents sin we may with all humble Reverence conjecture That he was therefore pleas●d to assume the Male as the meanest and inferior Sex contriving by his infinite wisdom that since Mans offence had reduced us all into this forlorn condition for had the Woman only sin'd we never had had such cause to cry out Oh Adam what hast thou done nor the Apostle to say In Adam we all dyed satisfaction for sin should be made in that Sex from whom that ocean of impiety which hath overwhelm'd the World had its first source and