An exposition on the fourteene first chapters of Genesis, by way of question and answere Collected out of ancient and recent writers: both briefely and subtilly propounded and expounded. By Abraham [sic] Rosse of Aberden, preacher at St. Maries neere South-Hampton, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines.

Q. How can the multiplication of the womans consceptions be a punishment for sinne?

A. The conceptions of the woman are a punishment, because sometimes their concepti∣ons are imperfect and deformed: secondly, many children being conceiued, doe perish be∣fore they come to maturitie: Thirdly, many children are wicked and rebellious, not regar∣ding the wombe that bare them with anguish, nor the pappes which suckled them with dan∣ger. These are great punishments inflicted on women for the sinne of Eua: fourthly, her conceptions are a punishment; for many infir∣mities doe accompany a woman that is with childe, as swimmings in the head, tooth-aches, perturbations in the minde, vitiosities in the stomacke; as to refuse good and wholesome meares, to desire to eate those things which Nature (being sound) abhorreth.