A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

But how can this exception of prophetesses consist with with the Text, Let your women keep silence in the Church, Why [Greek or Hebrew], Your women, they had prophesying women, as is supposed by these of the other opinion, from 1 Cor: 11. 5. Nay, even your women must be silent saith the Apostle; and the reasons which he addeth, are so universal as to comprehend even prophetesses, they are commanded to be under obedience, and to be in subjection, which Martyr himself noteth, holds true of prophesying women, as well as others, and that for that cause their heads were to be covered: Another reason is added, 1 Tim. 2. 14. Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, was in the transgression: It might be feared, saith P. Martyr, if women were permitted to speak in the Church, Satan should return to his first wile, and deceive the man by the woman. Surely he that made use of Eve, might also make use of a prophesying woman to deceive, and so much the more, because, now since the fall, both man and woman are more subject to tentation. So that both the Apostles command, and the reasons of it seem plainly to exclude, even prophesying women from speaking in the Church, and if they be allowed to deliver extraordinary prophesies and revelations in the Church; why not also to prophesy as other gifted members. If that which is greater be allowed them, why not that which is less? And if prophetesses be excepted from the rule, 1 Cor: 14. 34. Why not also other women of excellent gifts.

But how can this exception of prophetesses consist with with the Text, Let your women keep silence in the Church, Why 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Your women, they had prophesying women, as is supposed by these of the other opinion, from 1 Cor: 11. 5. Nay, even your women must be silent saith the Apostle; and the reasons which he addeth, are so universall as to comdrehend even prophetesses, they are commanded to be under obedience, and to be in subjection, which Martyr himselfe noteth, holds true of prophesying women, as well as others, and that for that cause their heads were to be covered: Another reason is added, 1 Tim. 2. 14. Adam was not deceaved, but the woman being deceaved, was in the transgression: It might be feared, saith P. Martyr, if women were permitted to speak in the Church, Sathan should returne to his first wyle, and deceave the man by the woman. Surely he that made use of Evah, might also make use of a prophesying woman to deceave, and so much the more, because, now since the fall, both man and woman are more subject to tentation. So that both the Apostles command, and the reasons of it seem plainly to exclude, even prophesying women from speaking in the Church, and if they be allowed to deliver extraordinary prophesies and revelations in the Church; why not also to prophesie as other gifted members. If that which is greater be allowed them, why not that which is lesse? And if prophetesses be excepted from the rule, 1 Cor: 14. 34. Why not also other women of excellent gifts.