best of all. So sure she | viro suo, non quia virum experta
is to be praised, not for the | ... Non enim corruptelae, sed sexus
present onely, but for euer. And so | vocabulum est. Gal. 4. 4. Luke 1.
this Text besides that it is a | 28. S. Ambr. ibid. c. 5._]
_Promise_, it is also a _Motiue_ to |
stirre vs vp to feare God, that so | [Note: A Promise, and Motiue.]
we also may haue true and eternall |
praise of God. It is both, and | [Note: _I. The partie that shall be
both waies wee to haue vse of it, | praised._]
as of a _Promise_, and as of a |
_Motiue_: both these waies at once; |
_A woman that feareth the Lord she |
shall be praised._ |
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A weake sex[f] to beginne with, and | [Note f: _1 Pet. 3. 7. Ier. 50.
yet being strengthned by Grace[g], | 37. Nah. 3. 13. Gal. 3. 27, 28._]
no impediment; but that a woman as |
wel as a man may feare the Lord, | [Note g: _--Ex parte natura (nisi
and haue praise of him, and so | sit fortitude maioris gratiae)
become the partie who shall, and | facilius incarnatur ad malum sexus
one Reason too, why _shee shall be | formineus. Bonau. L. 2. d. 21. q.
praised_. | 3. p. 18._]
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For a woman must be more good than |
nature, art, policie, preferment |
can make her, else shee is not good |
enough for Gods Spirit to praise |
her. He commends neither men nor |
women considered in their pure |
Naturalls only, in that estate of |
corruption, they all heare alike to | [Note h: _Rom. 3. 9._]
their disgrace, that they are _All |
vnder sinne[h]_, _All come[i] short | [Note i: _Rom. 3. 23._]
of the glory of God_, and are _All |
the children of[k] wrath_, because | [Note k: _Ephes. 2. 3._]
they _Are without all feare of |
God_[l] | [Note l: _Rom. 3. 18._]
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By nature then both sexes are alike |
faultie, alike disc[=o]mendable in |
Gods sight, and so they should be |
in ours. We should not dispraise |
women more than men, for the sex |
sake only (as some doe[m]) because | [Note m: _Eurip. Plutarc. de
they haue as noble soules as men, | Tranquilit Mulier quantibuis proba,
for[n] soules haue no sexes, (as | Mulier tamen est._]
Saint _Ambrose_ saith)