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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.
I Such is her Devotion, th•• while she Prudently avoids the •eading of Romances, which do no less Naturally than Generally Inspire the minds of Young People with Humours, that are as Vicious as they are Foolish; on the other side, she Piously Reads the Bible Every D•y, and she thence fetches those Humble and Holy, and serious Prayers which do obtain for her, all manner of Grace to help in a Time of Need. The Name of Agatha, or, A Good One, is that which for this cause Pertains unto her; and She is an A••a, or an Hannah, which is to say▪ A Gracious One.
I Such is her D•votion, th•• while she Prudently avoids the •eading of Romances, which do no less Naturally than Generally Inspire the minds of Young People with Humours, that are as V•cious as they are Fo•lish; on the other sid•, she Piously Reads the Bible Every D•y, and she thence fetches those Humble and Holy, and serious Prayers which do obtain for her, all manner of Grace to help in a Time of Need. The Name of Agatha, or, A Good One, is that wh•ch for this cause Pertains unto her; and She is an A••a, or an Hannah, which is to say▪ A Gracious One.
II. Such is her Purity, that while she will not suffer the least Behaviour or Expressi•• to proceed from her, which may Savour of Obscenity; so neither will she Permit, much less Invite, the Dalliances of any Wanton Creatures which may design any thing besides what is Honourable on her; or will she Endure o hear any Talk that shall not sound Innocently, without bestowing the Rebuke of t least that which for her sake we stile, A maiden Blush upon it. She is an Ages, that […] A Chaste One. The Name of a Catharine, at is, a Puritan, agrees well unto her; […] she had rather have it, though with a nful Nick name, than go with out it.