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An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowedAn exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed
An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowed.An exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed.
London: printed by John Daye, 1573London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1573
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
But a woman have I not found among them all.
But a woman haue I not founde among them all.
IF men be not able to perform this thing, yea almost none, much less shall women be able to do it. Again he speaketh of womenkind, as they be out of grace, in nature, and under the sun. For nature prescribeth not Gods works and miracles. There may (saith he) be found one among a thousand which by experience hath attained to say: my counsels and devises can not succeed or prevail, & so by this mean be made meet to govern. But not one woman hath attained hereto, because of gods ordinance. Therefore in these cases they are not to be harkened to.
IF men be not able to perfourme this thing, yea almost none, much lesse shall women be able to doe it. Agayne he speaketh of womenkinde, as they be out of grace, in nature, and vnder the sunne. For nature prescribeth not Gods works and myracles. There may (sayth he) be founde one among a thowsande which by experience hath attayned to say: my coū sels and deuises can not succéede or preuayle, & so by this meane be made méete to gouerne. But not one woman hath atteined hereto, because of gods ordinance. Therefore in these cases they are not to be harkened to.