onelie concerninge religion, but also touching their policie and regiment
of the same. And against that ordre it doth manifestly repugne, that any
woman shall occupie the throne of God, that is, the royall seate, whiche
he by his worde hath apointed to man. As in geuing the lawe to Israel,
concerning the election of a king, is euident. For thus it is writen[88]:
If thou shalt say, I will apoint a king aboue me, as the rest of the
nations, whiche are aboute me: Thou shalt make the a kinge, whome the
Lorde thy God shall chose, one frome amongest the middest of thy
bretheren, thou shalt apointe kinge aboue the. Thou maist not make a
strangier that is not thy brother. Here expressedly is a man apointed to
be chosen king, and a man natiue amongest them selues, by whiche precept
is all woman and all strangier secluded. What may be obiected for the
parte or election of a strangier, shalbe, God willinge, answered in the
blast of the second trumpet. For this present, I say, that the erecting of
a woman to that honor, is not onely to inuert the ordre, which God hath
established: but also it is to defile, pollute and prophane (so farre as
in man lieth) the throne and seat of God, whiche he hath sanctified and
apointed for man onely[89], in the course of this wretched life, to
occupie and possesse as his ministre and lieutenant: secluding from the
same all woman, as before is expressed. If anythinke the fore writen lawe
did bindethe Iewes onelie[90], let the same man consider, that the
election of a kinge, and apointing of iudges, did nether apperteine to the
ceremoniall lawe, nether yet was it mere iudiciall[91]: but that it did
flowe frome the morall lawe, as an ordinance, hauing respect to the
conseruation of both the tables. For the office of the magistrate oght to
haue the first and chief respect to the glorie of God, commanded and
conteined in the former table, as is euident by that, whiche was inioyned
to Iosue by God, what time he was accepted and admitted ruler and gouerner
ouer his people, in these wordes[92]: Thou shalt diuide the inheritance to
this people, the whiche I haue sworne to their fathers, to geue vnto them: