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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.
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 Ag•es, 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.
II. Su•h is her Purity, that while she will not suffer the least B•haviour or Expressi•• to proceed from her, which may Savour of Obscaenity; so neither will she Permit, much less Invite, the Dalli•nces of any Wan•on Creatures which may design any thing besides what is H•nourable on her; •or will she Endure •o hear any Talk that shall not sound Innocently, wi•hout bestowing the Rebuke of •t least that which for her sake we stile, A •aiden Blush ▪ upon it. She is an Ag•es, that 〈…〉 A Chast 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.