ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author's The Mother’s Blessing is a wide-ranging advice book filled with “many good exhortations and godly admonitions,” as the title page states. It is addressed to her three sons and instructs them on personal, domestic, and social behavior, from private prayer, religious thanksgiving and observance, to choosing a wife, raising children, and managing a household. The Reformation emphasis on individual spirituality enabled some women to “claim their right to speak independently from men”, especially on religious themes. The world was drowned because men married ungodly wives. Solomon, who was not only the wisest man that ever was but was also mightily endued with the Spirit of God, by marrying idolatrous women fell for the time to idolatry.
