[Sidenote 119: NOTE.]
[Sidenote 120: NOTE.]
[Sidenote 121: 2. Reg. 22.]
[Sidenote 122: Debora commanded not as princes vse to commande.]
[Sidenote 123: To iudge is not alway understand of the ciuil
regiment.]
[Sidenote 124: Isaie 2. Isaie 42. Mich. 4. Isaie. 5.]
[Sidenote 125: Ezech. 20. Ezech. 22. Ezech. 34]
[Sidenote 126: Ezech. 23]
[Sidenote 127: NOTE.]

To the first, I answer, that particular examples do establishe no common
lawe[108]. The causes were knowen to God alon, why he toke the spirite of
wisdome and force frome all men of those ages, and did so mightely assist
women against nature, and against his ordinarie course: that the one he
made a deliuerer to his afflicted people Israel: and to the other he gaue
not onlie perseuerance in the true religion, when the moste parte of men
had declined from the same, but also to her he gaue the spirit of
prophecie, to assure king Iosias of the thinges which were to come. With
these women, I say, did God worke potentlie, and miraculouslie, yea to
them he gaue moste singular grace and priuiledge. But who hath commanded,
that a publike, yea a tyrannicall and moste wicked lawe be established
vpon these examples? The men that obiect the same, are not altogether
ignorant, that examples haue no strength, when the question is of
lawe[109]. As if I shuld aske, what mariage is laufull? and it shulde be
answered that laufull it is to man, not onelie to haue manie wiues at
ones, but also it is laufull to marie two sisters, and to enioye them both
liuing at ones, because that Dauid, Iacob, and Salomon, seruantes of God
did the same. I trust that no man wold iustifie the vanitie of this
reason. Or if the question were demanded, if a Christian, with good