  More generally, it might be noted that when the Quakers defend a woman’s right to speak with religious authority, they are also (implicitly, at least) defending a natural woman’s ability to choose freely to live in the light. In her millenarian “calls to the Jews”, For Manasseth Ben Israel and A Loving Salutation, Fell emphasizes that while the spirit of the Lord might be divinely implanted, turning to the light requires a certain capacity for discernment, a firm resolution of will, and a natural bravery and courage on the part of the individual. First, “hearkening diligently” to the inner light requires the subject actively to discern what is necessary for her salvation. An individual must be capable of understanding or recognising what is her true good, such as “Eternall peace” (Fell 1656c, 5) or the divine “Inheritance” (Fell 1656a, 8). Second, hearkening requires that the subject show due attention to the voice of the Lord within, by an exercise of free will: the individual must will herself to “turn” her eyes or “incline” her ears (Fell 1656a, 3). And third, hearkening requires strength of moral character—not only because the light reproaches the individual with her own sin, but because turning to the light may require contradicting one’s spiritual teachers.  The light “lets you see the thoughts of your hearts, that they are vaine, which light lets you see when you doe amisse, when you tell a lye, when you doe wrong to any man” (Fell 1656a, 2). This knowledge will “rip you up and lay you open … and make all the deceit of your heart appear” (Fell 1656c, 7). The individual must be brave and steadfast to face up to such sinfulness. She must also reflect critically on what she may have been taught to believe by family and friends, especially those conventions concerning outward worship and outward appearances. In short, by affirming that women preachers can be in the light, Fell implicitly affirms that natural women are capable of asserting their intellect and will in order to attain salvation, even if that means defying their fathers, husbands, or other male spiritual guides.