You're wrong: he's not Superman at all.

, Chapter V [S]uch acts As I thought just, my wife called cruelty, Complained of in due form, — convoked no court Of common gossipry, but took her wrongs […]

There were many reasons why women might choose a reclusery over a convent.

Then he gave me a Book of Jeſus his inditing, to incourage me the more freely to come: And he ſaid concerning that Book, That every jot and tittle thereof ſtood firmer then Heaven and earth.