"As shee preachers hold forth christ" writing and speaking in Sara Jones's challenge to episcopacy, the Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642)
When Sara Jones spoke in front of her separatist congregation in 1632, she was opening herself up to criticism for going against scriptural precedents: it was not divinely sanctioned that women should speak in church. Perhaps deriving confidence from having defended herself in front of the High Comm...
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2011
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