The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women by John Knox
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B. 1. Woman in her greatest perfection was made to serve and obey man, not to rule and command him. 2. After the fall, she was made subject to man by the irrevocable sentence of GOD. In which sentence there are two parts. (a) A dolour, anguish and pain as oft as ever she shall be a mother. (b) A subjection of her self, her appetites and will to her husband and his will. From the former part of this malediction can neither art, nobility, policy nor law made by man deliver women: but, alas, ignorance of GOD, ambition and tyranny have studied to abolish and destroy the second part of GOD's punishment. 3. This subjection, understood by many to be that of the wife to the husband, is extended by Saint PAUL to women in general To which consent TERTULLIAN, AUGUSTINE, AMBROSE, CHRYSOSTOM, BASIL 4. The two other Mirrors, in which we may behold the order of Nature. (a) The natural body of man (b) The civil body of that Commonwealth [_of the Jews_] in which GOD by his own word hath appointed an order. |
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