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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.
IT was a great abuse which the Ancients who do•ed upon Virginity, put upon those words of the Apostle, in Rom. 8.8▪ Those that are in the Flesh cannot please God; when they supposed all Married Persons to be Those intended. A Virtuous Wife is one that pleaseth God, as much as if she were cloistered up in the strictest and closest Nunnery; and there with yea, there-in she pleases a Virtuous Husband also; she studies to render her self a true Ma••l, or Amiable person, in his Eyes; and a Right Evo•ias, or, One of a Good Savour to him. You shall now hear her Qualities.
IT was a great abuse which the Ancients who do•ed upon Virginity, put upon those words of the Apostle, in Rom. 8.8▪ Those that are in the Flesh cannot please God; when they supposed all Married Persons to be Those intended. A Vertuous Wife is one that pleaseth God, as much as if she were cloistered up in the strictest and closest N•nnery; and there with yea, there-in she pleases a Vertuous Husband also; she studies to render her self a true Ma••l, or Amiable person, in his Eyes; and a Right Evo•ias, or, One of a Good Savour to him. You shall now hear her Qualities.
I. As for her Love to her Husband, I may say, 'Tis even strong as Death, many Waters cannot quench it, neither can the Floods drown it. She can like, Sarah, Rebeckah, Rachel, freely leave all the Friends in the World for his company; and she looks upon that cha•ge of God unto His Ministers, Teach the Yung Womn to Love their Husbands, as no less profitable, than highly Reasonable. When she Reads, That Prince Edward in his Wars against the Turks, bing stabbed with a poisoned Knife, hi Princess did suck the Poison out of his Wounds, with her own Royal Mouth, she finds in her own Heart a principle disposing her to show her own Husband as great a Love. When she