N00500:117
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 WIFE.
The Vertuous WIFE.
WHEN Mr. William Wh•tely, was going to Publish a Book, which insisted much on the Duties of a Wife, he Dedicated the Book to his Father-in-law; and in the Epistle, after Solemn Thanks unto him for his bestowing on him, A most Excellent and Virtuous Wife, he adds, I have been the better Able to show, what a Good Wife should be, by finding the full Duty of a Wife continually performed unto me▪ in my own House; most easily therefore might I set out a Picture of that (says •e) which is hourly conversant before my Eyes. I cannot say that I am any further, but I have •ause to render unto Heaven my daily and hearty Thanks, that I am thus far, advantaged for my Describing of A Virtuous Wife; and if I thus Publish this Mercy of God unto my self, the unworthiest of men, le• Me nor be Censured as if my Freedom were a Folly ▪ not only because those Eminent Persons •• •aens ⟨p. 77⟩and Paraeus have before me, in Print Celebrated each of them the Worth of his Virtuous Wife, but also because the Wise Man reckons it among the privileges of a Virtuous Wife, in Prov. 31.28 Her Husband also, he Praiseth h•r.
WHEN Mr. William Wh•tely, was going to Publish a Book, which insisted much on the Duties of a Wife, he Dedicated the Book to his Father-in-law; and in the Epistle, afer Solemn Thanks unto him for his bestowing on him, A most Excellent and Vertuous Wife, he adds, I have been the better Able to show, what a Good Wife should be, by fiding the full Duty of a Wife continually performed unto me in my own House; most easily therefore might I set out a Picture of that (says e) which is hourly conversnt before my Eyes. I cannot say that I am any further, but I have ause to render unto Heaven my daily and hearty Thanks, that I am thus far, advantaged for my Describing of A Vrtuous Wife; and if I thus Publish this Mercy of God unto my self, the unworthiest of men, le Me nor be Censured as if my Freedom were a Folly not only because those Eminent Persons aens