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<P>A SPIRIT MOVING IN The VVomen-Preachers: <HI>OR, CERTAJNE Q&V;AERES,</HI> Vented and put forth unto this affronted, brazen-faced, &s;trange, new <HI>Feminine Brood.</HI></P>
<P>Wherein they are proved to be ra&s;h, ignorant, ambitious, weake, vaine-glorious, prophane and proud, moved onely by the &s;pirit of errour.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Henry Shepheard,</HI> at the Bible in Tower-&s;treet, and <HI>William Ley,</HI> at PAULS Ch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ine neere Doctors Commons. 1646.</P>
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<HEAD>Certaine <HI>Quaeres</HI> vented and put forth to the Women-Preachers.</HEAD>
<P>THough perhaps it had been much better and &s;afer for me to have &s;corned to meddle with the&s;e &s;illy frantick creatures, hereafter named, &s;aying un|to them with abominated indignation, as the Prophet <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 30.22. &s;peaks of the covering of &s;uper&s;titious Images, as unto <HI>a m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n&s;truous cloth, g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> thee hence.</HI> Yet le&s;t the&s;e in&s;ulting, in &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">w fal&s;e Prophete&s;&s;es <HI>(running un&s;ent)</HI> &s;hould too much in&s;ult in their arrogant pride, that no man would, or could ratio|nally encounter their fooli&s;h, proud, vain-glorious in&s;olencies in pre&s;uming to advance them&s;elves before, and over men, tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing the rules of <HI>Nature, M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|de&s;tie, Divinitie, Di&s;cretion. Civilitie,</HI> &amp;c. in triumphing again&s;t Authoritie, contemning Lawes, and all things oppo&s;ite unto their weak proceedings; I have cho&s;en to encounter with the&s;e <HI>Syr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ns&punc;</HI> the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">aine of women and of Religion, by &s;ome <HI>Quaeres</HI> put forth unto them and the world, to di&s;cover their fooli&s;hne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">&punc; weakne&s;&s;e, pride, indi&s;cretion, in&s;olencie, and vain-glorious frenzie&punc; How in &s;tead of <HI>acting</HI> as the Spirit moves them (as all <HI>Sectaries</HI> pretend) are rather led by the &s;pirit of darkne&s;&s;e, ignorance, and gro&s;&s;e errour.</P>
<P>When the Devill fir&s;t adventured to &s;ting the woman, and tempt her as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>weaker ve&s;&s;ell,</HI> &s;o by her to &s;ting and undo all man-kind by all likely-hood, he k<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> well what a rare peece he had to deale with, naturally apt unto all mi&s;chiefe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> eff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ct all his plots and purpo&s;es, to di&s;turb the whole Fabrick of the Creation, and as neere as might be, to bring the whole world unto wofull de&s;olation. Witne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> his after-work &s;ince the fall, having for the mo&s;t part in all ages u&s;ed e&s;peci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">lly this &s;illy and weaker Sex, to atchieve and compa&s;&s;e all his greate&s;t plots and de|&s;ignes; who in all Kings, Princes, and Noblemens Courts, have been, and yet are his only Engins to effect all his exorbitant de&s;ires. For when women beare <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> over men, having catched and bewitched them in their &s;ubtill &s;nares, what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 words"> that they will not do for them? what reque&s;ts or gifts will they refu&s;e them? what &s;ecrets will not the&s;e <HI>Dalilabs</HI> enforce, even from <HI>Sam&s;ons</HI> them&s;elves? So that for the mo&s;t part, in all Kings, Princes and great mens Courts and hou&s;es, they beare rule, and all things mu&s;t be as they will, or el&s;e there is no peace <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> Court nor Countrey, and many times the le&s;&s;e peace, the more they beare &s;way and rule. And how extreamly do the mo&s;t common la&s;civious &s;ort of them undo men of all &s;orts and degrees, whil&s;t be witch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">d with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
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<P>But of all other, the <HI>Je&s;uites, Prie&s;ts,</HI> and <HI>Separati&s;ts</HI> of our times and Church, have made, and ever do make &s;ingular u&s;e of the&s;e female Creatures: The former, to learne from them all their husbands &s;ecrets, to make u&s;e of them, both for pre|vention of all de&s;ignes again&s;t them, and advancement of their Kingdome: there|by to in&s;inuate into their husbands favours and e&s;tates, to lead them which way they li&s;t, to their unlawfull plea&s;ures, having them once catcht in the &s;nares of Confe&s;&s;ion, to over-awe them one way, and plea&s;e them the other way with &s;light and light penances. And our <HI>Separati&s;ts</HI> in this Kingdome are not in this kind to learne to &s;hufflle their Cards, and how <HI>to lead captive</HI> (as the Apo&s;tle &s;peaks, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3.6, 7.) <HI>&s;illy women laden with divers lu&s;ts, ever learning, and ne|ver leanred, nor able to come unto the knowledge of the Truth: under colour of long prayers, devouring widdowes hou&s;es;</HI> that &s;o by them they may attaine unto all their unlawfull &s;ecret de&s;ires; mo&s;t of them (for the mo&s;t part) wearing the bree|ches, and &s;o draw and lead their husbands by the no&s;e, which way they plea&s;e, by degrees wa&s;ting their e&s;tates, and furni&s;hing their pretended holy brother of the Separation, or Schi&s;me, with what&s;oever he plea&s;es, not di&s;plea&s;ing this man of God, as they call him, (though perhaps a wolfe in &s;heeps cloathing) who&s;e in&s;i|nuation with this Female Sex, hath &s;o prevailed with this poore ignorant &s;ort of Creatures, that puffed up with pride, divers of them have lately advanced them|&s;elves with vain-glorious arrogance, to preach in mixt Congregations of men and women, in an in&s;olent way, &s;o u&s;urping authority over men, and a&s;&s;uming a calling unwarranted by the word of God for women to u&s;e: yet all under colour, that <HI>they act as the Spirit moves them;</HI> wherein they highly wrong and abu&s;e the motions of that ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, to make him to be the Author of &s;o much Schi&s;me, di&s;order, and confu&s;ion; they being rather led by the &s;trong delu&s;ions of the Prince of darkne&s;&s;e, to contenance their ignorance, pride, and vain-glorie, as <HI>Hacket</HI> and <HI>Iohn a Leyden</HI> were, who pretended &s;pirituall revelations for all the villanies they committed, even when they were to give up the gho&s;t, dying in the mid&s;t of &s;uch bla&s;phemies.</P>
<P>Wherefore that the vanitie, weakne&s;&s;e, ignorance, pride, ambition, and vain-glorie of the&s;e poore Creatures may be di&s;covered, and that they may &s;ee upon what &s;andie foundations they build their Babels of confu&s;ion in their pretended Congregations, and may repent, and reforme them&s;elves for the time to come, I have hereafter provided from the Word &s;ome few <HI>Quaeres</HI> for them, to &s;hew both to the world and them&s;elves, how far they are from any lawfull authoritie of preaching unto others, who them&s;elves are &s;o &s;hort of knowledge being gro&s;&s;e|ly ignorant, di&s;abled either by precept, rule, or example of holy Scripture, &s;o proudly, gro&s;&s;ely, and ignorantly to behave them&s;elves: after which (God wil|ling) I will encounter, if the paper faile me not, with their <HI>Fort-Royall,</HI> to over|throw it, &s;hewing that their actions are not regulated and ruled by a right, but by a deluding &s;pirit.</P>
<P>But ere we come to our <HI>Quaeres,</HI> let us fir&s;t &s;tate the condition and nature of that
<PB N="4" REF="3">Sex we are to intreat of; what they are by <HI>Creation,</HI> and what they are by <HI>Dege|neration.</HI> 1 By <HI>Creation,</HI> we find her equall unto the man, a helper meet for him, <HI>Gen.</HI> 2.18. 2 By <HI>Degeneration,</HI> we find her his inferiour, the <HI>weaker ve&s;&s;ell,</HI> as the Apo&s;tle &s;peaks, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.7. made &s;ubject unto mans government, her will for over &s;ubjected unto his will, he to beare rule over her, <HI>Gen.</HI> 3.16. &s;he becoming therwith ignorant, &s;hallow, proud, ambitious, fanta&s;tike, incon&s;tant, pa&s;&s;ionate, and vaine-glorious, indi&s;creet, ea&s;ily led into extreames, either in good, or evill: which drew <HI>Solomons</HI> choice to be &s;o <HI>as to choo&s;e any malice, &s;ave the malice of a woman.</HI> In which &s;ubjected e&s;tate, &s;he was no more to weare her haire down along, as in the Creation, but to weare it tyed up for a covering, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.15. only in one ca&s;e of jealou&s;ie, accu&s;ed by her husband, when &s;he was to drinke the bitter water of her Triall, the Prie&s;t then for that time of her accu&s;ation was to uncover her head, and &s;tand during that &s;torme, with her haire downe as his equall, whereby it ap|pears, that all her life time, &s;he is ever to be in &s;ubj<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ction unto the man, and not to advance her &s;elfe, by di&s;-honouring mankinde, in the pre&s;ence of men to put her &s;elfe before men, as the&s;e women Preachers, we are now in pur&s;uit of have done, unto whom we pre&s;ent the&s;e en&s;uing <HI>Quaeres.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Quaere</HI> 1.</P>
<P>Why the&s;e &s;illie weake women, without calling, example, or precept dare un|dertake to u&s;urp the Office of Preaching in a mixed Congregation of men and wo|men, &s;eeing the Scriptures never &s;peake of any womens teaching of men, but of being taught by men, or els to be &s;ilent; as it is <HI>Tit.</HI> 2.3. <HI>The aged women like|wi&s;e, that they be in behaviour as becometh holine&s;&s;e, not fal&s;e accu&s;ers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things, that they may teach the younger women to be &s;ober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be di&s;creet, cha&s;t, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the Word of God be not bla&s;phemed.</HI> Where we &s;ee that tho&s;e who in tho&s;e dayes were permitted to teach, were of the ancienter, graver, and approved &s;ort, not everie up&s;tart young&s;ter as now <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> This permi&s;&s;ion was only to teach women, not men.</P>
<P><HI>Quaere</HI> 2.</P>
<P>Seeing as it is &s;aid, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 14.22. <HI>The &s;pirits of the Prophets are &s;ubject to the Prophets:</HI> (not Prophete&s;&s;es) they having no warrant or right Spirit to be ruled by in this grand action, &s;ave by a &s;eeming &s;pirit of errour, why yet they will in|trude them&s;elves in this grand office of Preaching, the weight whereof made the Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul</HI> the be&s;t Preacher, (next, our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour) cry out, <HI>O who is &s;uffici|ent for the&s;e things?</HI> &s;ure not weak, ignorant &s;illy women. But, <HI>who is &s;o bold as blind bayard?</HI> &s;aith the Proverb, <HI>It mu&s;t needs be a &s;illy flock where the Ewe bears the Bell.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Quaere</HI> 3.</P>
<P>Seeing women are commanded to keep &s;ilence in the Churches not being permit|ted to &s;peak there, but to be under obedience, and if they would learn any thing,
<PB N="5" REF="3">to aske at their husbands at home, as it is, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 14 34, 35. <HI>Let your women keep &s;ilence in your Churches, for it is not permitted unto them to &s;peake, but they are commanded to be under obedience, as al&s;o &s;aith the Law: and if they will learn any thing, let them aske their husbands at home, for it is a &s;hame for women to &s;peake in the Church.</HI> By what di&s;cretion, mode&s;ty therefore, or &s;hamele&s;&s;e im|pudence, dare they be thus contumaciou&s;ly in&s;olent thus to abu&s;e Religion, rai&s;e and foment Schi&s;mes and Errours in the Church, to undertake to teach and preach in a mixt Congregation of men and women. For to preach unto a mixt Congrega|tion in a Hou&s;e and in the Church is all one in effect, Churches being then by the Apo&s;tle thought to be the fitte&s;t and mo&s;t decent places for preaching of the Word in tho&s;e dayes, though all &s;orts of Sectaries do now &s;trive to di&s;credit the &s;ame, by Hou&s;e-Preaching by all appearance, having &s;uch lights (as Chri&s;t told the Scribes and Phari&s;ees) <HI>becau&s;e their deeds were evill</HI></P>
<P><HI>Quaere</HI> 4.</P>
<P>Seeing is it written, <HI>That to one is given the Word of wi&s;dome, to another the word of knowledge by the &s;ame Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the &s;ame Spi|rit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophe&s;ie, to another the di&s;cerning of &s;pirits, to another divers kinds of tongues,</HI> &amp;c. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.8, 9, 10. Now &s;eeing the &s;ame Spirit is &s;aid to worke the &s;ame in every man, without mentioning any women for &s;uch endowments; By what authority &amp; power then can the&s;e fe|male Preachers u&s;urp this office of preaching? contrary to the Spirits intention, to fall a preaching as is &s;aid un&s;ent or uncalled.</P>
<P><HI>Quaere</HI> 5.</P>
<P>Seeing the Apo&s;tle in re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">koing up the endowments of women in the choice of &s;uch appointed for &s;ome inferiour &s;ervices in tho&s;e daies, makes no mention of preaching among&s;t the re&s;t, (which &s;urely he would not have forgotten if any &s;uch had then been in the Church) &s;aying only, <HI>If &s;he have been well reported of, if &s;he have brought up children, if &s;he have lodged &s;trangers, if &s;he have wa&s;hed the Saints feet, if &s;he have releeved the afflicted, if &s;he have diligently followed every good work;</HI> Yet in all the&s;e &s;peaks not of preaching or teaching, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3.16. by what Authority dare tho&s;e untoward vaineglorious ra&s;h indi&s;creet creatures, pre|&s;ume to preach or teach in mixt Congregations of men, and women: which place they u&s;e in Hou&s;es in place of the Church.</P>
<P><HI>Quaere</HI> 6.</P>
<P>Seeing the Apo&s;tle writing to <HI>Timothy</HI> concerning the impo&s;ition of hands, and ordination of preaching Mini&s;ters, is wondrous choice and warie in warning of him, <HI>To lay hands &s;uddenly upon no man, neither be pertaker of other mens &s;ins; keep thy &s;elf pure,</HI> 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 5.22. therein makes no mention of ordination, or appoint|ing of women, or impo&s;ition of hands upon any of them, by what authority dare they be &s;o bold as to be intruders in this &s;acred worke of preaching the Word pro|per ever only unto tho&s;e Mini&s;ters, who have a lawfull Calling and Ordination?</P>
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<P><HI>Quaere</HI> 7.</P>
<P>Seeing Chri&s;t at his a&s;cen&s;ion up on high, when he had led Captivitie cap|tive, furni&s;hed his Church with all &s;everall offices and endowments for the per|fecting of his Church with &s;everall Mini&s;teriall functions; <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 4.11, 12, 13. <HI>And he gave &s;ome Apo&s;tles, and &s;ome Prophets, and &s;ome Evangeli&s;ts, and &s;ome Pa|&s;tours and Trachers, for the perfecting of the Saints, for the work of the Mini&s;trie, and for the edifying of the body of the Church, till we all come unto the unity of the of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, into the mea|&s;ure of the &s;tature of the fulne&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t,</HI> &amp;c. Woman Preachers being here left out and exempted from having any &s;hare in this great Mini&s;teriall worke, not no expo&s;itor ever having dreamt or thought of this their late bold intruding impu|dence, the Churches fullne&s;&s;e and perfecting having no need of their publike gifts. By what warrant or authority dare they be &s;uch bold intruders, to take upon them to teach or preach unto men, who are commanded by the Apo&s;tle, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.11. <HI>To learne in &s;ilence what all &s;ubjection?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Quaere</HI> 8.</P>
<P>Seeing that it is written, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.12. <HI>But I &s;uffer not a woman to teach, nor u&s;ury authoritie over the man; but to be in &s;ilence.</HI> Seeing then the Apo&s;tle unto all the fore-&s;aid doth directly forbid their preaching and teaching, commanding their &s;ilence: By what authoritie dare they, or can they be &s;o bold, impudent, affronted, and &s;hamele&s;&s;e, as to take upon them to teach, or preach before men in a Congregation, therein &s;eeming to a&s;&s;ume authoritie and &s;uperioritie over men, contrarie to the expre&s;&s;e rule of the Apo&s;tle.</P>
<P><HI>Quaere</HI> 9.</P>
<P>Whether or not the&s;e u&s;urping vain-glorious women (all the fore-named rea|&s;ons again&s;t them being con&s;idered) teaching otherwi&s;e, and not con&s;enting to whol&s;ome words, even the words of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, which are according to godline&s;&s;e, be not as is there &s;hewed of that prophane rude number, reckoned up, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 6.3, 4. <HI>Proud, knowing nothing, but doating about que&s;tions, and &s;trifes of Words, whereof cometh envie, &s;trife, railings, evill &s;urmi&s;ings, perver&s;e di&s;putings of men corrupt and de&s;titute of the truth, &s;uppo&s;ing that gaine is godline&s;&s;e, from &s;uch withdraw your &s;elves:</HI> being &s;illy women, ever learning, and yet never learned, nor able to come unto the knowledge of the Truth, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3.6, 7.</P>
<P><HI>Objection.</HI></P>
<P>But all the Rabble of Separati&s;ts, tho&s;e and all others, have this &s;hield and buck|ler, wherewith they &s;hroud them&s;elves in all their undertakings, <HI>That they only act as the Spirit moves them.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI></P>
<P>A fal&s;e and gro&s;ly ignorant Objection, a grand untruth, and imputation put up|on the ble&s;&s;ed Spirit of Truth, who leade men into all Truth, and countenances no gro&s;&s;e errours of Schi&s;mes, or errours in any. But to an&s;wer them; 1 Ingene|rall,
<PB N="7" REF="4">and then in particular: Certaine it is, that as truly might that grand Impo|&s;tour <HI>Mahomet,</HI> that counterfeit Chri&s;t <HI>Hacket,</HI> executed in Queene Elizabeths time; that bla&s;phemous Butcher <HI>John of Leyden,</HI> who proclaimed him&s;elfe <HI>King of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</HI> pleading Revelations, Raptures, and Enthu&s;ia&s;mes of the Spi|rits motions for all they did, or &s;aid; plead the Spirits Authoritie and Revelati|ons, as the&s;e our &s;hallow, weak, ignorant, preaching Si&s;ters may, and all alike. For if this grand Impo&s;ture might pa&s;&s;e currant, that men might impute all their gro&s;&s;e dreames and fooleries on the Spirits Revelations, what gro&s;&s;e impieties and enormities might they not father on the Spirits Revelations, <HI>In infinitum?</HI> And &s;o abu&s;e the Spirit, the world, and them&s;elves, under a pretended &s;hew of holi|ne&s;&s;e, and voluntarie counterfeit humilitie, without any warrant from the Word, the rules whereof mu&s;t be our warrant in all our actions, without which the Spi|rit moves not at all, but as he witne&s;&s;eth unto the Truth of the Word revealed. Thus much in generall.</P>
<P>But more particularly a little to a&s;&s;ault and batter this their <HI>Fort-Royall,</HI> let us &s;urvey three things touching the Spirit, which will cleare the point, I &s;uppo&s;e:
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<ITEM>1 Let us &s;urvey briefly, <HI>The Spirits motions under the Law before Chri&s;ts Incar|nation.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2 <HI>The Spirits mi&s;&s;ion and offices a&s;&s;igned him by Chri&s;t, at his mi&s;&s;ion from the Father and the Son.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3 <HI>The Spirits limitations by Chri&s;t, at his mi&s;&s;ion and &s;ending.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST> And &s;o we will conclude this &s;hort di&s;cour&s;e.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, for the <HI>Spirits motions under the Law before Chri&s;ts Incarnation,</HI> wee read of divers motions of the Spirit: Fir&s;t, that in the Creation, <HI>The Spirit of God moved upon the waters, Gene&s;.</HI> 1.2. Then we read of divers other motions of the Spirit. In <HI>Jo&s;huah,</HI> full thereof, <HI>Deut.</HI> 34.9. In <HI>Iephthah, Iudg.</HI> 11.29. His moving in <HI>David,</HI> 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 16.13. In <HI>Saul,</HI> 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 10.10. On <HI>Eliah,</HI> running before <HI>Ahab</HI> unto the entrance of <HI>Iezreel,</HI> 1 <HI>King.</HI> 18.16. The &s;pirit of the Lord falling on <HI>Ezekiel, Ezek.</HI> 11.5. And (in an extraordinarie ca&s;e) we read of two women Prophete&s;&s;es; <HI>Deborah,</HI> who judged I&s;rael, <HI>Iudg.</HI> 4 4. and of <HI>Huldah</HI> the Prophete&s;&s;e, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 22.14. From which two particular di&s;pen&s;ations, for that time to two women, can be no generall deducted for the&s;e women-Preachers, a|gain&s;t the warrant and rules of the word of God, as hath been &s;hewed. And we read al&s;o of another motion of the Spirit, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 30.21. <HI>In a voyce behind us, &s;aying. This is the way, walk in it,</HI> &amp;c. which can be no warrant for the&s;e fore&s;aid women to preach: for there the Spirits directions for our walking is, in the <HI>Way of Holi|ne&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Divine Rules:</HI> not into Schi&s;mes, Rents, Deviations, Divi&s;ions, and Errours contrarie unto the expre&s;&s;e Rules of the Word, and &s;o I have done with the fir&s;t thing, <HI>The Spirits motions before Chri&s;ts Incarnation.</HI> From whence they can deduct no warrant, or example for their preaching.</P>
<P>The &s;econd thing is, <HI>The Spirits mi&s;&s;ion by Chri&s;t, with the Offices a&s;&s;igned un|to him by Chri&s;t:</HI> For his <HI>Mi&s;&s;ion,</HI> Hee is &s;ent by the Father in Chri&s;ts Name, a Spirit of Truth, whom all in the world cannot receive, <HI>Joh.</HI> 14.17. who&s;e Offices
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<PB N="8" REF="6">are to comfort us, to dwell and be in us, to teach us all things, to bring unto our remembrance all things taught us by Chri&s;t, <HI>Joh.</HI> 14.26. to te&s;tifie of Chri&s;t, <HI>Joh.</HI> 15.26. to guide and lead us in all truth, <HI>Joh.</HI> 16.13. to &s;hew us things to come, <HI>Joh.</HI> 16.14. and <HI>to convince the World of Sin, of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and of Judgement.</HI> From all which there can be no warrant drawne, for his moving of women to preach; for, his motions are according unto the doctrine of Chri&s;t, and the Apo|&s;tles from the Spirit of Chri&s;t, who teach us no &s;uch Doctrine, but quite contra|rie, as hath been &s;hewed. For this Ble&s;&s;ed Spirit of Chri&s;t is &s;till the &s;ame, which is &s;aid to be, <HI>A Spirit of Wi&s;doms and under&s;tanding, the Spirit of coun&s;ell and might, the Spirit of knowledge, and of the feare of the Lord; I&s;a.</HI> 11.2. A Spirit (as is &s;hewed) leading us into the practice of all known and revealed Truths from Chri&s;t, not the dreames, errours, fables, and pretended raptures of the&s;e &s;illy abu|&s;ed Sectaries.</P>
<P>The la&s;t thing is, <HI>The Spirits limitations by Chri&s;t:</HI> 1 Negative; 2 Affirma|tive. 1 Negative, <HI>For he &s;hall not &s;peake of him&s;elfe.</HI> 2 Affirmative, but <HI>What&s;o|ever he &s;hall heare, that he &s;hall &s;peake, and he will &s;hew you things to come; hee &s;hall glorifie me, for he &s;hall receive of mine, and &s;hall &s;hew it unto you.</HI> Intimating, that if the Spirit &s;hould guide and lead us other wayes, than in the truths and rules re|ceived by Chri&s;t in the Word, the te&s;timony of &s;uch a &s;pirit were not to be belee|ved, neither led us in the right way, which &s;hould not this way glorifie Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>By all which we may gather, that the&s;e poore &s;illy women, tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing (as is &s;hewed) again&s;t the rules of the word, delivered by the Spirit of Chri&s;t in the Apo&s;tle, which he affirmeth <HI>to be the Commandements of the Lord,</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 14.37. <HI>are ignorant, and like to remaine in ignorance,</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 14.38. led by the &s;pirit of errour in all their vain-glorious, ra&s;h impudencies, who&s;e <HI>Syren</HI> enchanting &s;ongs are carefully to be avoyded of all, following the Apo&s;tles rule, <HI>Rom.</HI> 15.17, 18. <HI>Now I be&s;eech you brethren, mark them that cau&s;e divi&s;ions and offences contrarie to the doctrine which yee have learned, and avoyd them:</HI> For they that <HI>are &s;uch, &s;erve not our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, but their owne belly; and by good Words and faire &s;peeches deceive the hearts of the &s;imple.</HI> For when &s;uch like fal&s;e Intruders, took upon them to be Exori&s;ts, and to conjure evill &s;pirits, in the name of the Lord Je&s;us; the Devill him&s;elfe refu&s;ed to owne, or know &s;uch.</P>
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<BIBL><HI>ACTS XIX. XV.</HI></BIBL>
<Q>Je&s;us I know, and Paul I know; but who are yee?</Q>
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