Friday, January 27, 2012

Friday Quotes IV (First Known Feminist and Baptist)

"Private persons separating from all sin, and joining together to obey Christ their king, priest and prophet, as they are bound, are a true visible Church, and have a charter given them of Christ thereto, being but two or three. Matthew 18.20.2" - John Smyth

“There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh… She was created in the image of God. How can any mouth dare to slander the vessel which bears such a noble imprint?” - Christine de Pizan "The City of Ladies" (1.9.2). - AD 1400

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