Christ is_ _GOD_; it being evident from the Form of Baptism, that there is no natural Inferiority among the Divine Persons, but that they are in all Things Coequal. The Apostle, indeed, adds, that _the Man is the Glory of_ _GOD_, _and the Woman the Glory of the Man_, _&c._ But what does he infer from hence? He says not a Word of Inequality, or natural Inferiority; but concludes, that a Woman ought to cover her Head, and a Man ought not to cover his, and _that even Nature it self teaches_ us, that _if a Man have long Hair it is a Shame unto him_. Whatever the Apostle’s Argument proves in this Place, nothing can be plainer, than that there is much more said against the present Fashion of Mens wearing long Hair, than for that Supremacy they lay claim to. For by all that appears in the Text, it is not so much a Law of Nature, that Women should obey Men, as that Men should not wear long Hair. Now how can a Christian Nation allow Fashions contrary to the Law of Nature, forbidden by an Apostle, and declared by him to be a Shame to Men? Or if Custom may make an Alteration in one Case, it may in another, but what then becomes of the Nature and Reason of Things? Besides, the Conclusion the Apostle draws from his Argument concerning Women, _viz._ that they _should have Power on their Heads because of the Angels_, is so very obscure a Text, that that ingenious Paraphrast, who pleads so much for the _Natural Subjection_ of Women, ingenuously confesses, that he does not understand it. Probably it refers to some Custom among the _Corinthians_, which being well known to them, the Apostle only hints at it, but which we are ignorant of, and therefore apt to mistake him. ’Tis like, that the false Apostle whom St. _Paul_ writes against, had _led Captive_ some of their rich and powerful, but _silly Women_, who having as mean an Opinion of the Reason _GOD_ had given them, as any Deceiver could desire, did not, like the noble-minded _Bereans, search the Scriptures whether those things were so_, but lazily took up with having Mens Persons in admiration, and follow’d their Leaders blindfold, the certain Rout to Destruction. And it is also probable, that the same cunning Seducer imploy’d these Women to carry on his own Designs, and putting them upon what he might not think fit to appear in himself, made them guilty of indecent Behaviour in the Church of _Corinth_. And therefore St. _Paul_ thought it necessary to reprove them so severely, in order to humble them; but this being done, he takes care in the Conclusion to set the Matter on a right Foot, placing the two Sexes on a Level, to keep Men, as much as might be, from taking those Advantages which People who have Strength in their Hands, are apt to assume over those who can’t contend with them. For, says he, _Nevertheless_, or notwithstanding the former Argument, _the Man is not without the Woman, nor the Woman without the Man, but all Things of_ _GOD_. The Relation