Innumerable mo testimonies, of all sortes of writers may be adduced for
the same purpose, but withe these I stand content: iudgeing it sufficient
to stoppe the mouthe of such as accuse and condemne all doctrine, as
hereticall, which displeaseth them in any point that I haue proued, by the
determinations and lawes of men illuminated onelie by the light of nature,
by the ordre of Goddes creation, by the curse and malediction pronounced
against woman, by the mouth of saint Paule, who is the interpreter of
Goddes sentence, and lawe, and finallie by the mindes of those writers,
who in the church of God, haue bene alwayes holden in greatest reuerence:
that it is a thing moste repugnant to nature, to Goddes will and apointed
ordinance, (yea that it can not be without contumelie committed against
God) that a woman shuld be promoted to dominion or empire to reigne ouer
man, be it in realme, nation, prouince or citie. Now resteth it in few
wordes, to be shewed, that the same empire of women is the subuersion of
good ordre equitie and iustice.

[Sidenote 64: De ordine lib. I C. 10]

Augustine defineth[64] ordre to be that thing, by the whiche God hath
appointed and ordeined all thinges. Note well reader, that Augustine will
admit no ordre, where Goddes apointment is absent and lacketh.

[Sidenote 65: De ciuit. Dei, lib. 19 cap. 13.]
[Sidenote 66: what soener done withowt the appointment of Goddes will
is done withowt ordre.]
[Sidenote 67: Two mirrors, in which we may beholde the ordre of
nature.]
[Sidenote 68: Common welthes under the rule of women, lacke a laufull
heade]
[Sidenote 69: Idol.]