The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, 1558 |
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admonishe alwayes amongest apostle approued authoritie aboue Blast CATHERINE DE MEDICI certein Christ Iesus ciuile commanded common welth counsel Debora declared deliuerer denied vnto dominion doth doughters empire of women England ennemies euen euerie euident finallie folowe frome gaue geue geuen glorie Goddes godlie grace hartes hath apointed haue head holie ghost honor husband idolatrie Iesabel iniquitie Israel Iuda iudge iudgement iust iustice JOHN KNOX king knowen laufull lawe maiestie mainteine MARY MARY TUDOR membres middest monstre mount Seir murther nether neuer ô Lord obiection offended onelie ordre plainlie pronounced prophetes proued punishe Queen realmes and nations receiued REGIMENT OF WOMEN reigne aboue reigne ouer remoue repugneth reueled saint Paule saith sam[e Scotland selues sentence shal shalbe shuld Sisera soeuer sonnes speake strangiers subiect Tertullian therfore thing thou shalt tyrannie vnder vnderstand vpon vsurpe authoritie whome wicked witnesse witt wold wordes writer
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Page v - Women (1558) by maintaining that to "promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his revealed will and approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice
Page xvi - JOHN KNOX asked of me, in a private conversation, what I thought about the Government of Women. I candidly replied, that as it was a deviation from the original and proper order of nature, it was to be ranked, no less than slavery, among the punishments consequent upon the fall of man...
Page xvii - a private conversation ; " and the interview* must have been truly distasteful to both parties. Calvin, indeed, went a far way with him in theory, and owned that the "government of women was a deviation from the original and proper order of nature, to be ranked, no less than slavery, among the punishments consequent upon the fall of man.
Page xii - Gad shall declare him selte to be her ennemie, when he shall poure furth contempt vpon her, according to her crueltie, and shal kindle the hartes of such, as somtimes did fauor her with deadly hatred against her, that they may execute his iudgementes. And therfore let such as assist her, take hede what they do.
Page 11 - To promote a woman to beare rule, superioritie, dominion or empire above any realme, nation, or citie, is repugnant to nature, contumelie to God, a thing most contrarious to his reveled will and approved ordinance, and finallie it is the subversion of good order, of all equitie and justice.
Page 18 - ... reason, to interprete, or to teache, but principallie to rule or to iudge in the assemblie of men. So that woman by the lawe of God, and by the interpretation of the holy ghost, is vtterly forbidden to occupie the place of God in the offices afore said, •which he hath assigned...
Page vii - An harborowe for faithfull and trewe subjectes, agaynst the late blowne Blaste, concerninge the Government of Wemen, wherin be confuted all such reasons as a straunger of late made in that behalfe, with a breife exhortation to obedience. Anno. MD lix . . . At Strasborowe the 26. of Aprill.
Page 49 - ... and consent of a blinded multitude, or elles they shall not be able to stand in the presence of the consuming fier : that is, they must acknowledge that the regiment of a woman is a thing most odious in the presence of God. They must refuse to be her officers, because she is a traitoresse and rebell against God. And finallie they must studie to represse her inordinate pride and tyrannie to the vttermost of their power. " The same is the dutie of the nobilitie and estates, by whose blindnes a...
Page 15 - So, I say, that in her greatest perfection woman was created to be subiect to man. But after her fall and rebellion committed against God, their was put vpon her a newe necessitie, and she was made subiect to man by the irreuocable sentence of God, pronounced in these A /»«« wordes: I will greatlie multiplie thy sorowe and thy conception.
Page xvii - ... were occasionally women so endowed, that the singular good qualities which shone forth in them made it evident that they were raised up by Divine authority...