  In The Woman Learning in Silence (1656), George Fox likewise challenges those who would limit the spirit of God to “learned men, old books, and authors” (Fox 1656, 4). He goes further than Farnworth by arguing that those who prevent women from speaking in church stop Christ himself from speaking. To substantiate his point, he provides a list of exemplary females from the Bible, including the daughters of Philip, Hannah (or Anna) the Prophetess, Priscilla “an instructer”, Phebe, Mary Magdalene, and other “women-labourers in the Gospel”. These historical women provide proof that the light of Christ is the same in the male and the female—to suggest otherwise is to defy scripture and to place limits on the divine power. And “Who is it that dare limit the holy One of Israel?” and “who is it that dares stop Christs mouth? that now is come to reign in his sons &amp; daughters” (5).