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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. 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 Y•ung Wom•n to Love their Husbands, as no less profitable, than highly Reasonable. When she Reads, That Prince Edward in his Wars against the Turks, b•ing 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 ⟨p. 78⟩Reads of a Woman called Merpine, who having her Husband Apoplex'd in all his Limbs, bore him on her Back a thousand and three Hundred English Miles to a Bath, for his Recovery, she ••ds her self not altogether unwilling to have done the Like. When she Reads of those famous Women, who after a ho• Siege in the Castle of Winsberg, having obtained this Liberty from their Enraged Enemies, That they might themselves go out, and also take any one thing that they could carry with them, very bravely took up each one her Husband, and so delivered them; she Applauds the Example and world Follow it. And, when she Reads of that Generous Young Woman, Clara Cerv•nta, who having for her Husband, on• V•lda••a, that proved full of most loathsome Diseases, yet she rended him with all the care and cost imaginable, and Sold her Jewels to maintain him; and at his Death, after ten long years of Languishment, she Replied un•o her Friends who would rather have Congratulated her Deliverance, That she would freely l•s• the b•st of her Enjoyments, to purchase her Dar Vadaura aga! She resolves the Imitation of such a Carriage, while she bestows an Admiration on it. He Affctions were not at fist founded on the Estate or Beauty of her Husband; and therefore it These happen to be Consumer, Those do out-live their Funeral. Ts Her Piety towards the Commandment and Ordinance of God that Inspires her Affctions; and so hey do not grow Cold like a Smith's red hot Br of Iron, whe taken out from the Fire of a misplaced Lust When she addresses