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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.
III. Such is her Modesty, that she Chooses to be Seen rather than Heard wherever she comes: and instead of that Confidence in ⟨image ?⟩Repartees and Railleries which p•asses for Good• Breeding with a Debauched Generation, or instead of being like those who (as one says) More Bridle is their Chi•s, than their Tongues, she Counts Tac•, which in English is, Hold your Peace, a Name sometimes worn by some of her Sex, to be a Rule always to be heeded by her self. But if she be Constrained▪ at all to speak, she still is, an •••alia, or, a W•ll Spoken One; and though she will not be, As an Hind let loose, yet she will ever, Give Goodly Words.
III. Such is her Modesty, that she Chooses to be Seen rather than Heard wherever she comes: and instead of that Confidence in ⟨image ?⟩Repartees and Railleries which p•asses for Good• Breeding with a Debauched Generation, or instead of being like those who (as one says) More Bridle is their Chi•s, than their Tongues, she Coun•s Tac•, which in English is, Hold your Peace, a Name sometimes worn by some of her Sex, to be a Rule alwayes to be heeded by her self. But if she be Constrained▪ at all to speak, she still is, an •••alia, or, a W•ll Spoken One; and though she will not be, As an Hind let loose, yet she will ever, Give Goodly Words.