maistresse ouer thine own appetites, ouer thine owne will nor desires. For
in the there is nether reason nor discretion, whiche be able to moderate
thy affections, and therfore they shall, be subiect to the desire of thy
man. He shall be Lord and gouernour, not onlie ouer thy bodie, but euen
ouer thy appetites and will. This sentence, I say, did God pronounce
against _Heua_, and her daughters, as the rest of the Scriptures doth
euidentlie witnesse. So that no woman can euer presume to reigne aboue
man, but the same she must nedes do in despite, of God, and in contempt
of his punishment, and maledictjon[30].

[Sidenote 31: Answer to an obiection. ]
[Sidenote 32: 1 Tim. 2. ]
[Sidenote 33: I. Cor. 14.]
[Sidenote 34: From a general privilege is woman secluded.]
[Sidenote 35: She that is, subject to one may not rule many.]

I am not ignorant, that the most part of men do vnderstand this
malediction of the subiection of the wife to her husband, and of the
dominion, which; he beareth aboue her[31]: but the holie ghost geueth to
vs an other interpretation of this place, taking from all women all. kinde
of superioritie, authoritie and power ouer man, speaking as foloweth, by
the mouth of saint Paule[32]. I suffer not a woman to teache, nether yet
to vsurpe authoritie aboue man. Here he nameth women in generall,
excepting none, affirming that she may vsurpe authoritie aboue no man. And
that he speaketh more plainly, in an other place in these wordes[33]: Let
women kepe silence in the congregation, for it is not permitted to them to
speake, but to be subiect as the lawe sayeth. These two testimonies of the
holy ghost, be sufficient to proue what soeuer we haue affirmed before,
and to represse the inordinate pride of women, as also to correct the
foolishnes of those that haue studied to exalt women in authoritie aboue