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F God is the Head of Chriſt, not in refpeR of his Eſſence and|head »2 ; f . X | * Chuck FR Nature, but in ref] pe& othis Office as Mediator : as the man| yer », EIT that 1s even all one as if ſhe were tha- if nt © * rhe Head of che woman , nor 1n reſpeCt of a different and more | IS Gt to excellent Eſſence and Nature (for they are both of the ſame Nature) h Thuogh the woman, 1 Tim. 2. 12, beforbidden to reach, and Nible for but in reſpe& of office and place, as God hath ſet him over the wo. | <omMmanded 7 be in ſilence ; yet that Text muſt be underſtood of uſt occa. in. Nor indeed couid thoſe who deny the Divine Nature of ordinary women, and in ordinary caſes,not concerning ſuch as pro- give of, Chriſt,cafily have brought a Text more againſt their own aſſertion, pheſied from an extraordinary impulſe or motion of the Spirit. We and were than this, which rather proverh, that God the Father and the Lord read of Women P rophereſſes both in the Old and New Teſtameac ch Chiif Jeſus Chriſt are equa] in Nature and Eflznce, than different ; for ſuch was Huldab in Foftab's time, and Amns,of whom we read Luk: 2. toadt in | the Head 1s not of a different, but the ſame Nature and EC. | 36- and we read that Philip had four aaughters that did prophe ſie , fence with the Members. Nor dorh Chriſt's ſubjz&ion to his Fa- Ats 21.9. 1 The uncovered head here ( as before) muſt fienifie at all arguen inequality, or difference from him in Nature | covered with ſome artificial covering, ſuch as our Quoifs "Hats 3» 0 not? ther re than the ſubjeCtion of Subje&s i 16 | Hoods, or Yeils, &c. or with her : c T ) If 4 Eſſence,more Tan r J n J ro a Prince argue _P , own hair, not hanging looſe, but ny, that i; - y ſoch thing. The Apoſtle then determines this to be the Order artificially uſed ſo, asto be a covering. m. Diſhonoureth either her which God hath ſer. God is the Head of Chriſt , Chriſt is the Head husband, who is her Political or Oeconomica! head, for by that habir th lefrme'%, of his Church, and every one that is a Member ofit ; and Man is the behaveth her ſelf as if ſhe were nor one in ſubje&tion,and ſeem. on of any the Head of the Wiran, he to whom the womanought to be ſub. eth touſurp an undue authority over the man ; or her natural head , ecking my -.+, as the Church is ſubjeCt to Chriſt, and Chriſt is ſubje& xo his | © being in thoſe places accounted an immodeſt thing for a woman nd, or hy. | Faker, and from hence he argueth as followeth. |to appear in publick uncovered. Ir is obſerved of Rebeceah, when eſpecially : ; : ; ſhe met 1ſaac, Gen. 24. 65. She rock a wal, and covered her ſelf. ena] Sales, 4 Every man praying or propheſying g having hz |» For, ſaith the Apoſtle, your ſelves would judge it an uncomely before the head covered 5, diſhonoureth his head 7. thing for a womap to be ſhaven ; now to pray or propheſie with | be hinf:X ant a the head uncovered, is all one. This laſt clauſe will incline us to | Ruletohe By every Ly pr 4 x wm ome ( yy whom the | think, that by the uncovered head in this verſe, is not only to be un. which Gol Tearned Beza) un _ an = - y he that mini reth in prayer, or derſtood uncovered with ſome other covering befides her hair, bur ithſtanding in opening and PP _ b e gr a Fes from 2 previous | with her hair diſhevelled, hanging looſe at its length, for elſe it is iritual goed meditation and udy 0 46 oo wy the extraordinary Revela- | not all one to have the head uncovered with an hat , or hood, or ; rheir judg, ron of the holy Sar » WiiICa Tt Pe ad in thoſe Pr 1mitive Times , | quoif, and to be ſhaven ; for the Apoſtle afterward, v. 15. ſaith damage al but alſo all choie rhar mn preſent ar thoſe ations : The reaſon | her hair 1s given to h:r for a covering or a weil : So that poſlibly thar the Souls hey give, 15, Becauſe the Reaſon given by the Apoſtle for his aſſer- j which the Apoſtle here refle&erh upon, womens coming into che ; tion, is ſuch as is common to the people, as well as to him that mi. |publick Aſſemblies with their haic hanging looſly down, and nor niftrech : and rhe Woman was forbidden to ſpeak in the Church , | decently wound up fo, as to make a covering for her head; which i Tim. 2. 12. Bur our learned Biſhop Hal! aſſures us, he cannot | we are told, was the prattice of thoſe beaſtly ſhe-Prieſts of Bacchus, agree with thoſe of this mind. And indeed it is an unreaſonable | who, like frantick perſons, performed thoſe pretendedly religious is Inflituim, jotexpretation 3 for though thoſe who join with others in Prayer , | Rites with their hair ſo hanging looſe, and were called Menades i ar may be ſaid to pray, YE. thoſe that hear dne preaching or expounding becauſe they behaved th:mſelves more like mad perſons, than ſuca vith bis tad Seripture , Can 1N AO Propriety of ſpeech be ſaid to propheſic. Nor | as werg in the a&ual uſe of their reaſon : ſomething like which, ic ad 5; any ſuch uſage of the term to be parallePd, neither are the rea- | is moſt probable, ſome women in the Chriſtian Church at Corinch af. ;- the Goth ſons they bring, cogent ; for chough the reaſon of the Precept may | feed, againſt which the Apoſtle here argueth.
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