A30127:52
A case of conscience resolved viz. whether, where a church of Christ is situate,…
A case of conscience resolved viz. whether, where a church of Christ is situate, it is the duty of the women of that congregation, ordinarily, and by appointment, to separate themselves from their brethren, and so to assemble together to perform some parts of divine worship, as prayer, &c. without their men? : And the arguments made use of for that practice examined / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1683
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One Word more, The Women in the time of Jeremiah the Prophet, when they had made their Cakes to the Queen of Heaven; (tho the thing which they did was as right in their own eyes, as if they had done true Worship indeed) and was Questioned by the Prophet for what they had done, could not Justify what they had done, as to the Act, but by pleading, They did it not without their Men. Jer. 44.17, 18, 19.
One Word more, The Women in the time of Jeremy the Prophet, when they had made their Cakes to the Queen of Heaven; (tho the thing which they did was as right in their own eyes, as if they had done true Worship indeed) and was Questioned by the Prophet for what they had done, could not Justifie what they had done, as to the Act, but by pleading, They did it not without their Men. Jer. 44.17, 18, 19.
Thus having premised these few things, I shall now come more directly ⟨p. 11⟩to discourse of the Question it self, TO WIT, Whether, where a Church of Christ is Situate, it is the Duty of the Women of that Congregation, Ordinarily, and by appointment, to separate themselves from their Brethren, and as so separate, to assemble together to perform divine Worship, Prayer, without their Men?
This was our Question, and this I will now give a Negative Answer unto. For I find not in Christs Testament any command so to do; no nor yet Example: and where there is none of these, it cannot be a Duty upon them; no, nor yet Liberty, but presumption to attempt it.