The Womans Glory, Title page – Table of contents
THE Womans Glorie. A TREATISE, ASSERTING The due Honour of that SEXE, AND Directing wherein that Honour conſiſts.
Dedicated to the young Princeſſe, Elizabeth her Highneſſe.
By Samuel Torſhel.
LONDON, Printed by G. M. for Iohn Bellamie, at the three golden Lions near the Royall Exchange. 1645.
To the Excellent Princeſſe, a Lady of great hopes and Expectation Princeſſe ELIZABETH Her Highneſse.
MADAM,
FOr the Honour, and for a publike teſtimonie of your more then ordinary Pregnancie and Capableneſs in ſo young and tender yeares, I have now dedicated to your Name, what I prepared eſpecially for your uſe, and for the ſervice of your growing vertues. Reade over again, what you heard, and in part noted with your own Pen. Strive to anſwer your hopefull beginnings, that you may riſe to be the glory of Princeſses. This ſhall be a Record for after yeares, what you were at nine yeares of age, that hereafter it may praiſe your encreaſe, or admoniſh you, if it be otherwiſe. However it ſhall remain as a witneſſe of the faithfulneſſe of
Your Highneſs's moſt humble Servant. SAM. TORSHE….
To the Reader.
YOu will pleaſe to understand, that the occaſion of this Treatiſe was a Sermon, or Exhortation, which I made at Whitehall, the 28. of December laſt, which day we kept in remembrance of the birth of Princeſſe Elizabeth, ſecond daughter to our King; If cuſtome, and the due reſpect we owe to the branches of the Royall Familie had not prevailed with us, yet the great hopes and the very bloſſomes of vertue and other excellent parts in this Princeſſe would have commanded from us all this Reſpect. I have now ſomewhat inlarged what I then ſpake, and have ſitted it into a Treatiſe. My main end in it, is only to advance the worke that is properly in my hand, to bring in ſome, if it may be, and to build them up in Faith and Holineſſe. The Lord ſanctifie all meanes to this purpoſe, and Crowne every endeavour with ſucceſſe: I have purpoſely laboured a familiar plainneſſe, as aiming at benefit, not delight. And I ſhall deſire of all that ſhall reade it, to bring ſerious thoughts, and free from prejudice or lightneſſe.
The Contents of this Booke.
Chap. 1. Women capable of the higheſt improvements. They were made after the Image of God The Sout the ſame. Their bodies as organicall. The whole Sexe unduty reproached. pag. 1
Chap. 2. Some Inſtances of eminencie in women. 1. Wiſdome. Policie. Deliberation. Secreſie. 2. Learning. p. 16.
Ch. 3. The Letters touching this argument, between And. River, & A. Maria à Schurma. p 34
Chap. 4. Other Inſtances of womens eminencies. 3. Conſtancie. 4. Courage. 5. Abilitie to govern. 6. Piety and Religion. pag. 74
Chap. 5. Soule glory is chiefeſt. What Soule glory or Inward beautie is pag. 95
Ch. 6. Modeſtie proper to women. Modeſty of cariage, Of lāguage. A ceaſure of lewd books. p. 110
Chap. 7. The former grace commended. Modeſtie in Attire. pag. 128
Chap 8. Humility, a Grace of great Ornament. Womens Subjection. The queſtion, whether women may be Teachers. pag. 142
Chap. 9. The Excellencie of Wiſdome. The uſefuln…ſſe of i… The Maximet of Wiſdom. p. 102
Chap. 10. Stence a great proofe of Wiſdome. The hatefulneſſe of Diſsimulation. p. 182
Chap. 11. The beautie of holineſse. The rule of Devotion. A ſerious exhortation to the realing of the Scripture. p. 195
Chap. 12. The Maximes of Pietie. The Concluſion. p. 218