(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.”
(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.)