(_Works_, VIII., p. 69.) What spirit is this that would exercise lordship over the faith of any? (_Works_, VIII., p. 97.) Women are heirs of life as well as men ... they must all give an account of their stewardship and are to be possessors of life and light and grace and the gospel of Christ, and to labour in it and to keep their liberty and freedom in it as well as the men. (_Ibid._) A Churlish Husband. You may see Abigail, that honourable woman's wisdom, how she saved her family and her house from destruction. Yet she did not go to ask her husband (old churlish Nabal) at home, but she who was innocent and wise, took it upon herself; and you may see what a brave sermon she preached to David, who heard her patiently. (_Works_, VIII., p. 100.) Unregenerate Sociology. And when the apostle spake to the Corinthians how that he would have them to know that God was the head of Christ, and Christ was the head of the man and the man was the head of the woman, and the woman was made for the man and not the man for the woman and he is the image and glory of God and she is the glory of the man, this the apostle spake to the Corinthians who were not come to the state of Adam and Eve before they fell. (_Works_, VII., p. 190.) Women and Dish-washing. Now Moses and Aaron and the seventy elders, did not say to those assemblies of the women, We can do our work ourselves and you are more fit to be at home to wash the dishes, or such-like expressions; but they did encourage them in the work and service of God, in those things which God had commanded them in the time of the law. (_Works_, VIII., p. 93.) Restoration of Womankind. But this Coleman and others in their opposition asked me whether it was not the command of God that a man must rule over his wife, and he would rule over his wife; and did not the apostle say I permit not a woman to teach, and where did we read of women elders and women disciples? and it was an abuse to the elders to set up a women's meeting. But I told him and them that he and they was but an elder in the fall, ruling over their wives in the fall; but he nor they must not rule over widows and young women and other men's wives. And I showed him that Dorcas was a disciple and the apostle commands that the elder women should be teachers of good things to the younger, and though the apostle said, I permit not a woman to teach nor usurp authority over the man, as also saith the law, for Eve was first in transgression and such teaching as Eve taught her husband and usurped authority over the man is forbidden.