But .ij. thinges are with out lawe / god and necessite. Yf god to shew his power shall shede out his grace moare vppon youth then vppon age at a tyme / who shall lett him? wemen be no mete vesseles to rule or to preach (for both are forboden them) yet hath god endoted them with his spirite at sondrie tymes and shewed his power & goodnesse vppon them and wrought wonderfull thinges by them / because he wold not haue them dispised. We reade that wemen haue iudged all Israel and haue bene greate prophetisses and haue done mightie deades. Yee and if stories be true / wemen haue preached sens the openynge of the new testament.

Doo not oure wemen now christen and ministre the sacrament of baptim in tyme of neade? Might they not by as good reason preach also / if necessite required? If a woman were dreuen in to some Ilande / where Christ was neuer preached / might she there not preach him / if she had the gyfte therto? Mighte she not also baptise? And why might she not / by the same reason ministre the sacramente of the body & bloude of Christe / and teach them how to chose officers & ministres? O pore wemen / how despice ye them! The viler the better welcome vnto you. An hore had ye lever than an honeste wife. If only shauen & annoynted maye doo these thinges / then Christe did them not ner any of his apostles / ner any man in longe time after. For they vsed no soch ceremonyes.

Notwithstondinge though god be vnder no law & necessite lawlesse : yet be we vnder a lawe & ought to preferre the men before the wemen and age before youth / as nye as we can. For it is agenst the lawe of nature that younge men shul