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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.
The Virtuous MAID.
The Vertuous MAID.
TIS the Wish of the Psalmist, in Psal. 144.12. That our Daughters may be as C•••er Stones, Polished after the Similitude of a Palace. The Name of Per•el [or Petronella] which Signifies, A Pretty Little Stone, has been sometimes put upon a Daughter. And now behold. A Virtuous Daughter is here styled, A Polished Corner Stone, by the Spirit of God; She is indeed a Margaret, that is to say, A precious one. It seems▪ tis a thing that more than a little sets off the Happiness of a People, When the Young Women among them, have Accomplishments which render them, like the Tall, Fine, Costly Pillars, that are usually at the Gates of Palaces. The most Christian Jew in his Translation of that Place, makes the Wish •o run, That our Daughters may be — the B•il•ing of the Temple. And indeed it is no small Happiness unto a People, when the Young Women among them, do B•ild the Temple of God, and become Stones fit for a Room in that Building. It ha's doubtless been a most Encouraging thing unto s•me one Gathered Church of the L•rd Jesus. To see about Thirty or Forty Gracious Young •omen, in two or three Years time (as perhaps there have been seen) Addressing them for thei• Sacred Communion at the Table of the Lord▪ Now tis by, The Fear of G•d, that a Maid may become one of these Happy Daughters. A Virtuous Maid, will not count her self too Young […] be Concerned about, The Fear of God, but […] Obeys that Call, Remember thy Creator in […]