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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.
VI. But her Fidelity is no where mor• Signalized, than in her Solicitude for the Eternal Salvation of her Husband; O how U•••lling she is that the Precious and Immortal Soul of her Poor Husband, should go from her Arms▪ to make his Bed among the Dragons of the Wilderness for ever! The Apostles Exclamation, What knowest thou, O Wife, but thou ma•st save thy Husband? is her apprecation, O that I may! Chrysostoms, No• upon it is, That the Wife is to Remind her Husband of what was Delivered in the Church Truly, though a Woman may not Speak in the Church, yet she may humbly Repeat unto her Husband at Home what the Minister Spoke i• the Church, that may be Pertinent unto his Condition. Thus, every Pa•l may have, Women that Labour with him in the Gospel. […] Opportunities are those that a Woman ha's to bring over her Husband unto Real and Serious Godliness, and a Good Woman, will use those Opportunities. An Esther, a Wi••y Esther, what can't she do with the most haughty Husband in the World? What may •ot a Godly Domiti•, or a Godly Monica do, for the Souls of their Unconverted Husbands? If her Husband be a Carnal, Prayerless, Graceless ⟨image ?⟩man, she will not leave off her Ingenious Persuasions, till it may be said of him, Behold, he Prays! If her Husband be under the Power of any Temptation, she will do what she can to prevent his Destruction, as that famous Woman did for the City of Abel ▪ She would merit the Name of an Eunice, that is, A Good Conqueror, by Conquering of her Husband unto the Liking of all that is Good. Instead of saying to him, Curse God? She pursues him with Loving, Winning, Unwearied Solicitations, to, Fear God, and, Serve God, and, Never be Weary of well doing. Instead of being a Delilah, that shall Entangle him in the Cords of Death, she do's all she can to b• a Priscilla, that shall more full acquaint him with the Things Pertaining to the Kingdom of God.