The men he considered undoubtedly as the heads of the church, and from whom all laws concerning it ought to issue.

But he did not deny women on that account any power, which he thought it would be proper for them to hold.

He believed them to be capable of great usefulness, and therefore admitted them to the honour of being, in his own society, of nearly equal importance with the men .-- In the general duty, imposed upon members, of watching over one another, he laid it upon the women, to be particularly careful in observing the morals of those of then own sex.

He gave them also meetings for dicipline of their own, with the power, of recording their own transactions, so that women were to act among courts or meetings of women, as men among those of men.

There was also to be no office in the society belonging to the men, but he advised there should be a corresponding one belonging to the women.