The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women by John Knox
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Yea euen till the dayes of Augustine, whose sentences I omit to auoide
prolixitie. [Sidenote 43: August. lib. 22. contra Faustum, c.31.] [Sidenote 44: De Trinitat, lib. 12 cap. 7] [Sidenote 45: In quaect. veteris Testamenti, quaest. 45.] [Sidenote 46: NOTE.] [Sidenote 47: Lib. de Continentia cap. 4.] [Sidenote 48: Ambros. in Hexaemero lib. 5. c. 7.] [Sidenote 49: Cap. 5.] [Sidenote 50: Ambros. super. 2. c. I epist. ad Timoth.] [Sidenote 51: Ambros. in I. epist. ad Corin. cap. 14.] [Sidenote 52: Genes 3.] [Sidenote 53: whose house I pray you ought the parliament house to be, Goddes or the deuilles?] [Sidenote 54a: Rufus is by S. Paul saluted before his mother.] Augustine in his 22. boke writen against Faustus[43], proueth that a woman oght to serue her husband as vnto God: affirming that in no thing hath woman equall power with man, sauing that nether of both haue power ouer their owne bodies. By whiche he wold plainlie conclude, that a woman oght neuer to pretend nor thirst for that power and authoritie which is due to man. For so he doth explane him selfe in an other place[44], affirming that woman oght to be repressed and brideled be times, if she aspire to any dominion: alledging that dangerous and perillous it is to suffre her to procede, althogh it be in temporall and corporall thinges. And therto he addeth these wordes: God seeth not for a time, nether is there any newe thinge in his sight and knowledge, meaninge therby, that what God hath sene in one woman (as concerning dominion and bearing of authoritie) the |
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