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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.
COUNSEL. 7.
COVNSEL. 7.
AND yet there is this One thing more, which Women are to be advised unto; Namely, To maintain, The Fear of God, in every Condition of Life, into and through which the, Will of God may carry them. There are particularly, F•ur States, in One of which all Women are, and to most of which, perhaps, most Women c•me. Let there be set before you, the po••tr•it•re of, A Virtuous Woman, in each •f th•se Four States; and let it be your study to answer that portraiture by, The Fear of God, in all. While I man•ge that D••cour•e, I shall take the Liberty to touch now and then upon the Signification of such NAMES as are most usual with the Female S•x• ; partly, because tis a Curiosity which you w•u•d willingly be Entertained with; but Che•••y because I may make some Lessons the more easily Remembered, yea, and the more thoroughly Attended, by that Curiosity. A least, I hope, I shall not meet with such an Hard Fae, as that German Divine, who telling his Auditory, tha Ursula signified, A Little Bear, a Womn of that Name caused such an Up-roar among the Women against him, as drove him out of the Town.