
42 Lhe Eiftory of Bess. 
Befides, fuch an Affociate was abfolutely 
neceflary to propagate the human Species, 
and replenifh the Earth. 
May we not moreover, in this Royal Pair, 
the Originals of Mankind, difcern fome 
Order, Precedency, or Authority? In that 
the Man was firft formed, and then the . 
Woman: The Man 1s not of the Woman, — 
but the Woman of the Man; neither was the 
Man created for the Woman, but the Woman 
for the Man.* Therefore, as the Church is fub- 
ject to Chrift, fo foould the Wives be unto 
their own Hufbands in every Thing. + 
_ Ladies, Gentlewomen, and others, will 
the more eafily forgive me herein, fince it 
is both a divine Inftitution, of an early 
Date, { and an Apoftolical ‘Canon, which 
ee not a Woman to ufurp Authority 
over the Man, who is the Head of the 
‘Wife, even as Chrift is Head of the Church, 
A Term which imports {ome Authority. 
Nor have we only divine Precept for that 
Subjetion and Obedience, I am with the 
greateft Meeknefs and kindeft Defign recom- 
mending to Wives, but alfo Scripture-Pre- 
cedent. : 
Sarah obeyed Abrabam, calling him Lord, 
wba Daughters ye are, as long as ye do well. § 
this Example the Apoftle enforces the 
Reis of Chriftian Wives. The holy Wo- 
men : 
PAN, da ‘Cor. xi-O, 9... os Hineftis, ‘Eph. v. 2A 
t Gen. iii. 16. § 1 Pet. ili, 6. 
