CHAPS.3. 37Z 4 r.Cor.y.3o. r.Cox6.n. Proo,13.3r. Women not to teach in pub. hkc:3,rca(on.. I a 3 ACommeatarie vpors the fpeach is. 4. When they are as fetters and clogges from the performance ofgood duties, vnf`itting men to the duties oftheir generali and fpeciall calling, whereunto they wereordained to make vs fit and feruiceable. Thus men loofe their libertie. Vfe. To refolue the praetife of thefeprecepts. r. Tovfe the worldas not vfing it, neither growing proud in the (miles , nor toomuch depref- fed in the frowning of ir. s. So to take our partsofour lawful! liberties, as that we be neuer brought vnder thepower ofany thing : vnder the pre, fence oflibertie in thecreatures, we may not become flauifhunto them, but carrie anequal! minde both to want and abound. 3. To auoide all occafions whereby vnawares wemight bedrawne vnder their power, as lookjny at thewine in the cup: for hereby thirff will follow drunkeunes ; fo ofdaintinetl'e, foftneffe, riotousand fpendthrift companie, for by fuch means andcxamples,the heart becomes wholly divorced fromGod,and gleweel unto the creatures. But teachers ofholy things,] It will be here asked , how ftandeth this with that in e.Tim. r. a. r T. Let thewoman learne, and,Ipermit nota woman to teach. e/iafw. The A- pou le there fpeaketh of the orderand comelines ofpublike ecclefiaflical affemblies, wherein they werenot allowed to take upon them any pow- er or fun6ìion ofteaching,for the reafons propounded, which are three. r. From their condition,which is ro beobedient vnro man,& therefore in mens pretence mull not vfurpe the authoritie of teachers , but con- tent themfeiues with the place offchollers, and in all mixt affemblies of men and women. a. Their funcrtion , which is to fettle men : for Adam was firfl created, and Eue for Adam; and not to exercifeany fun5Rion ouer them. 3. From theweakenesoftheir (exe, which lieth more open to Satans feducement; for Adamwae not dsceiuedfirfi, but Eue. It is not fit that any fuch funuion of teaching fhould be committed unto them; feeing Eue in innocencie taking vpon her to teach Adam, was fo eafily ptcuailed againfi : and the Apollieexpreffeth this his owne fenfe,r.Cor. 54.34. where from the fame ground of the womans fubieCtion vnto man, he faith, Letyour women keepepence in the Churches. As for the ex- amplesofDeborab, and Haldae, who were Propheteffes in the Church, they beeing extraordinarie, make nothing againfi this ruleof Paul, nor forthat Pepuzian herefie, for womans teaching in the Church, nor that Popifh herefieofmid wines baptizing of infants in cafe of neceffitie, as theycall it. Neither doth thisplace written by the fame fpirit and penne croffe the former, feeing it fpeaketh of private teachingand, infiru¢,}ing the familyat home,efpeciallyher children and maidferuants; fo the text it felfe feemeth to reflrain them, pointing themout their auditors;name- ly,°
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