There is no one strikes his fellow servants but first he is gone from the pure in his own particular. He goeth from the light he is enlightened withal when he strikes. Then he hath his reward. (C. J., I., p. 318.) Peace. Seek the peace of all men. (_Works_, VIII., p. 62.) XI. Concerning Women. Marriage. For man and woman were helps-meet in the image of God and in righteousness and holiness, in the dominion before they fell; but after the fall in the transgression the man was to rule over his wife; but in the restoration by Christ into the image of God and his righteousness and holiness again in that they are helps-meet, man and woman, as they were before the fall. (_Works_, VIII., p. 39.) And there was a great marriage of two friends the next day, and there came some hundreds of beggars. And friends refreshed them instead of the rich. And in the meeting before the marriage I was moved to open to the people the state of our marriages, how the people of God took one another in the assemblies of the elders, and how God did join man and woman together before the fall, and man had joined in the fall, but it was God's joining again in the restoration and never from Genesis to the Revelation did ever any priests marry any. (C. J., II., pp. 106-7.) DEAR RICHARD, With my love to thee and to thy wife and to all the rest of Friends in the holy seed of life, now dear Richard Richardson I desire that thou would search all the libraries concerning marriages, and what they do say of them; and the Fathers and how they did before the monkish sort came in in the Britons' time and when marrying with the priest came in. So search histories and laws and see what thou canst bring out both good and bad and which maketh a marriage and do what thou canst in this thing, for it hath been upon me some time to write to thee of this thing and did receive thy letter by R. Bartlett which I did let Thomas Lowson see. It is a notable thing, so in haste with my love gff. Swarthmore, 8 mo., 16, 1679. (_Journal Friends' Hist. Soc._, Vol. I., p. 63, from MSS.) Man, born of Woman. And some men may say man must have the power and superiority over the woman, because God says, "The man must rule over his wife" and that "man is not of the woman, but the woman is of the man." Indeed, after man fell, that command was; but before man fell there was no such command. For they were both meet-helps and they were both to have dominion over all that God made. And, as the apostle saith, "for as the woman is of the man," his next words are, "so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God."