The downfall of women Preachers,
OR,
Mrs. Abbigale upon her last Text:
He that is hurt or troubled with the stone,
Enters not in our Congregation,
Then Sisters since that I must reach no more,
Lay hold on that I told you of before,
To the Tune of, My Coussen makes a Cuckould on me.
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ALL you Sects and Seperatis,
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which hath Church Government disturbed,
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The time of Reformation is,
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that you are like for to be curbed:
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You have abusd and grossely usd
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the Word by your unlawfull teaching,
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So that you cannot be excusd,
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for we must have no women preaching.
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Your private meetings are disdan'd,
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of Christians that are well disposed,
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Our Citizens have long complaind,
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whose grievenses are now disclosed:
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Because they find, that Female kind,
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the hearts of men are overreaching,
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Therefore they have it so design'd,
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that we must have no women preaching.
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Our Grandam Evah in Paradice,
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when Adam was in's full perfection,
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Did use all meanes for to intice,
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and he to follow her direction:
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Did give consent and was content,
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the Law with her for to be breaching;
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Thus wives makes hu[s]bands to repent,
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therefore wee'le have no women preaching.
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Silence better doth become,
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a Woman far then too much prating,
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For modesty will stay at home,
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and on her houshold still be wayting:
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She is divine, and will incline,
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her Eare unto her husb[a]nds teaching,
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Oh then that such a one was mine,
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for I do not love a womans preaching.
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Our wise and gravest Ci[t]izens,
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did to the Parliament Petition,
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That they might use some speedy meanes,
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whereby to beat downe superstition:
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And all the Sects that do perplex,
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the Kingdome by unlawfull teaching,
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Which makes our holy Siste[r]s vex,
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to see the fall of women preaching.
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The larnd and lawfull Ministers,
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are by these Secteris dispised,
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Who hold no Do[c]tri[n]e good but theirs,
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which they amongst themselves devised:
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Yet they will pray, for halfe a Day,
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with romeing eyes and hand out streaching
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And after with their Brethren play,
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therefore wee'le have no women preaching.
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The second part to the same Tune.
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UNto the Church they will not goe,
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which hath the bells hung in the steeple,
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Because they thinke in doing soe,
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they joyne amongst the wicked People:
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Therefore in Corners they do creep,
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to excercise their private teaching,
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To such as will their counsell keep,
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but now they put downe women preaching.
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He that is wounded of the Stone,
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amongst them shall not be admitted,
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Because they thinke that such a one,
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cannot sufficiantly be fitted:
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For round and sound, they must be found,
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or else they must not heare their teaching,
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For this is held the chiefest ground,
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belonging unto women preaching.
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Into a Tub or Chare she goes,
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and then with speeches most demure,
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At least a hundred proofes she showes,
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against the wicked and impure,
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She open layd, her Booke and said,
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beloved listen to my teaching,
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A danty peece of worke she made,
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but now they put downe women preaching.
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She strives to beat downe sinne and yet,
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approves of Carnall Copulation,
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And holds it is a thing most fit,
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to multiply the Congregation:
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Her Sisters there, which came to heare,
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did much commend her for her teaching,
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Who said they all converted were,
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by hearing of that woman preaching.
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[Th]ough some of that opinion are,
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[th]at women Preaching is forbiden,
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I hope 'tis fitting to declare,
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part of the truth which hath beene hiden,
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Shall wicked men, condeme us then,
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when wee shall meet with holy kissing,
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Oh no my Friends, when'th Lecter ends,
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go multyply and take my blessing.
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A young man walking by the way,
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met with a santified Sister,
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But what they did I will not say,
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no more but yet I'me sure he kist her:
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She gave consent, and with him went,
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where such a Lesson he did teach her,
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Whereas he gave her such content,
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as did exceed the woman preacher.
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