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Ornaments for the daughters of Zion. Or The character and happiness of a virtuous…Ornaments for the daughters of Zion. Or The character and happiness of a vertuous…
Ornaments for the daughters of Zion. Or The character and happiness of a virtuous woman: in a discourse which directs the female-sex how to express, the fear of God, in every age and state of their life; and obtain both temporal and eternal blessedness. / Written by Cotton Mather ; [Four lines in Latin from Tertullian, followed by a six line translation into English]Ornaments for the daughters of Zion. Or The character and happiness of a vertuous woman: in a discourse which directs the female-sex how to express, the fear of God, in every age and state of their life; and obtain both temporal and eternal blessedness. / Written by Cotton Mather ; [Four lines in Latin from Tertullian, followed by a six line translation into English]
printed by S.G. & B.G. i.e for Samuel Phillips, 1692
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THAT so the Address now made you, may be as well Agreeable as Effectual, give me Leave to press it, under the Notion of a MARRIAGE whereof the Son of God now makes you m•st Condescending Overtures. Never were you treated with such an Important and Concerning Affair▪ as that which I now Challenge your Earnest Heed unto; and therefore let the Words once used by a Woman, be now with a little Alteration Mine, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for I must prevail With thee to take m• God▪ and my Christ, as thine for ever. The Ministers of the Lord Jesus Christ are called […] Friends of the Bridegroom; Now let one […] ⟨image ?⟩Th•• inform you, That▪ the Prince of Life▪ the Lord of Glory, the King of Heaven, makes unto you, even unto sinful Worthless YOU, a Motion of a Marriage wi•h Himself. O do not slight the Motion of such a Transcendent Match! but, that I may speak in the Apostles Language, Let me Espouse you to one Husband, that I may present you, as a Chaste Virgin to CHRIST. We read in Rev. 19 6, 7. There is A Voice as it were of a Great Multitude, and the Voice of Mighty Thunders, saying, Hallelujah, l•t us be glad and rejoice▪ for the Marriage of the Lamb is come▪ and his Wife has made h•r self Ready! Could I speak wi•h a Voice like that of Mighty Thunders, I would now call upon a Great Multitude, that they would make themselves ready for a Marriage with the Lamb of God. O don't Refuse a Match with the LAMB, lest you incur the Wrath of the Lamb; or, indeed, lest He become a Lion, and He Tear you to pieces, while there is none to Deliver. Methinks, there should not need many Arguments to persuade you unto such a Marriage as you now have the Tenders of. If there do, then Consider the Necessity of this Marriage. The Apostle speaking of a Woman, being not married unto another man in a Time of Raging Persecution, says in