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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.
But let a Woman be Married unto the Lord Jesus Christ, and what follows? '•is no less than that in 1 Cor. 3.22, 23. All Th•ngs are yours, and ye are Christs. O what unsearchable Riches, are you made presently partakers of! If th•s avail no•, Consider, then the Excellency of •he Person, who Courts you to the Marriage. 'Tis said of Him, in Cant. 5.16. H• is altogether Lov•ly; and can't you L•ve such an […]? He is, The Desire of all Nations; and w•ll not you Desire H•m? He is▪ The Pea•• of great price; and will you set no Price upon H•m? He is, The Christ of God; and O why should not you say, Let Him be my Christ for-ever! And if none of all this will br•ak you• H•ar•s, let it be Considered, That it is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself who has made the First Offers •f this Astonishing Match. We forlorn Creatures, by the H•dges and in the D•tches of Hell, never durst have Dreamt of such an Exaltation, if that Glorious Monarch Himself had not made the First Offers of it▪ H• was Himself Mad• of a Woman, on purpose that so He might b• Married uno the Children of Men; and the Souls of Womn as well as of Mn, are capable of this Mystical Marriage. This Illustrious Lord, who is infinitely Higher than the Kings of the Earth, does now Himself do so strange a thing, as to Beseech you, Tat you wld Accept of Him as th Husband of your Sols; and that you would be willing o have an Ierest in that privilege, Thy Maker is thy Husband, and th Redeemer;