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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.
From the Words of the Wise Woman, in Prov. XXXI.30. Favour is Deceitful, and Beauty is Vain; but A WOMAN THAT FEARETH THE LORD, She 'tis, that shall be Praised.
From the Words of the Wise Woman, in Prov. XXXI.30. Favour is Dec•itful, and Beauty is Vain; but A WOMAN THAT FEARETH THE LORD, Shee 'tis, that shall be Praised.
IT may well be reckoned the Brightest Honour of that Sex, which the Holy Spirit of God ha's declared Worthy of a Chaste and a Kind Honour from us▪ That when the Fullness of Time was Come, God sent forth His Son, made of a Woman. As a Woman had the Disgrace to Go First in that horrid and Woeful Transgression of our fi•st Parents, which ha's been the Parent of all our misery; so a Woman ⟨image ?⟩had the Glory of bringing into the World that Second Adam, who is the Father, of all our Happiness: a Woman had the Saviour of Mankind in the Circumstances of an Infant Miraculously Conceived within her; and of a Mary was Born that Holy Thing, which is called, The Son of God. There is a Woman, whom we do now without the mistakes, which made that Expression the Occasion of many Ancient and no less Furious than Curious Controversies, call▪ The Mother of Him that is God; inasmuch as that very Flesh which was Born of her, and which the Trembling Heretics of this Age, do not now Tremble to Vilify and Nullify wi•h frequent Blasphemies; I say, That Visible Tangible Flesh is Personally United, unto the Second Person in the Adorable Trinity. Though we do not like the Popish Idolaters, for this Cause, imagine that Blessed Virgin to have been free from Original Sin, when she was on Earth, nor now Implore her Mediation and Intercession, in Heaven for us; and though I do not think, that the Holy Ghost referred unto her peculiarly, as there are Expositors who think H dos when He says, The Woman that fears the Lord, She tis that shall Praised; Yet we may safely account the Female Sex herein more than a little Dignified. And how should it Encourage all Women to seek a Saving Interest in that Redeemer, who was Born of a Woman! how should all Women make their Hears a Lodging for that Lord, who in a Woman received, The Body Prepared for Him!