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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3 The equality or parity: that men may learn to forbear despising of that weaker sex, behold here as many women saved as men. Not one man more, not one woman less: of the eight, women make up the just half, yea, whereas one of the four men was an Hypocrite, and after cursed, the Scripture speaks no such matter of any woman among them. Howsoever Poets in their Satires, songsters i• their drunken rhymes, and too many men in their unrellishing jests; spend their wits in invectives against that sex: yet the Lord loveth them equally with men; and JESUS CHRIST shed his blood, and by his blood, (I am persuaded) saveth as many women as men. As she is then Wife of thy covenant, so she is the child of Gods covenant:o the daughter of Sarah, so well as thou art a Son of Abraham. St Peter says, they are coheirs of the same grace: and St Paul, they are coheirs of the same glory.
3 The equalitie or paritie: that men may learne to forbeare despising of that weaker sexe, behold here as many women saved as men. Not one man more, not one woman lesse: of the eight, women make up the just halfe, yea, whereas one of the foure men was an Hypocrite, and after cursed, the Scripture speakes no such matter of any woman among them. Howsoever Poets in their Satyres, songsters i• their drunken rythmes, and too many men in their unrellishing jests; spend their wits in invectives against that sexe: yet the Lord loveth them equally with men; and IESUS CHRIST shed his bloud, and by his bloud, (I am perswaded) saveth as many women as men. As she is then Wife of thy covenant, so she is the child of Gods covenant:o the daughter of Sara, so well as thou art a Sonne of Abraham. St Peter saies, they are coheires of the same grace: and St Paul, they are coheires of the same glory.