interpretation of the holy ghost, is vtterly forbidden to occupie the
place of God in the offices afore said, which he hath assigned to man,
whome he hath appointed and ordeined his lieutenant in earth: secluding
frome that honor and dignitie all woman, as this short argument shall
euidentlie declare.

[Sidenote 36: A strong argument.]
[Sidenote 37: NOTE.]
[Sidenote 38: Tertullian de habitu mulierum.]
[Sidenote 39: Let women hearken what Tertullian an olde Docto saith.]
[Sidenote 40: NOTE]
[Sidenote 41: Tertull, lib 8. de virginilis verlandis.]
[Sidenote 42: In proaemio 6. lib. contra Marcionem.]

The apostle taketh power frome all woman to speake in the assemblie[36].
_Ergo_ he permitteth no woman to rule aboue man. The former parteis
euident, whereupon doth the conclusion of necessitie folowe. For he that
taketh from woman the least parte of authoritie[37], dominion or rule,
will not permit vnto her that whiche is greatest: But greater it is to
reigne aboue realmes and nations, to publish and to make lawes, and to
commande men of all estates, and finallie to appoint iudges and ministers,
then to speake in the congregation. For her iudgement, sentence, or
opinion proposed in the congregation, may be iudged by all, may be
corrected by the learned, and reformed by the godlie. But woman being
promoted in souereine authoritie, her lawes must be obeyed, her opinion
folowed, and her tyrannic mainteined: supposing that it be expreslie
against God, and the prophet [_profit_] of the common welth, as to[o]
manifest experience doth this day witnesse. And therfore yet againe I
repete that, whiche before I haue affirmed: to witt, that a woman promoted
to sit in the seate of God, that is, to teache, to iudge or to reigne