same he seeth in all. And what he hath forbidden to one, the same he also
forbiddeth to all. And this most euidentlie yet in an other place he
writeth, mouing this question: howe can woman be the image of God, seing
(saith he[45]) she is subiect to man, and hath none authoritie, nether to
teache, nether to be witnesse, nether to iudge, muche lesse to rule, or
beare empire? These be the verie wordes of Augustine, of which it is
euident that this godlie writer[46], doth not onelie agree withe
Tertullian before recited, but also with the former sentence of the lawe,
whiche taketh frome woman not onelie all authoritie amongest men, but also
euerie office apperteining to man. To the question howe she can be the
image of God, he answereth as foloweth. Woman (saith he) compared to other
creatures is the image of God, for she beareth dominion ouer them: but
compared vnto man, she may not be called the image of God, for she beareth
not rule and lordship ouer man, but oght to obey him &c. And howe that
woman oght to obey man, he speaketh yet more clearlie in these words: the
woman shalbe subiect to man as vnto Christ. For woman (saith he[47]) hath
not her example frome the bodie and from the fleshe, that so she shalbe
subiect to man, as the fleshe is vnto the spirite. Because that the flesh
in the weaknes and mortalitie of this life, lusteth and striueth against
the spirit, and therfore wold not the holie ghost geue example of
subiection to the woman of any suche thing &c. This sentence of Augustine
oght to be noted of all women, for in it he plainlie affirmeth, that woman
oght to be subiect to man, that she neuer oght, more to desire preeminence
aboue him, then that she oght to desire aboue Christe Iesus. With
Augustine agreeth in euerie point S. Ambrose, who thus writeth in his
Hexaemeron[48]: Adam was deceiued by Heua, and not Heua by Adam, and
therfore iust it is, that woman receiue and acknowledge him for gouernor
whom she called to sinne, lest that again she slide and fall by womanlie
facilitie. And writing vpon the epistle to the Ephesians[49], he saith: let
women be subiect to their owne husbandes as vnto the Lorde: for the man is