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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.
II▪ That she may be Sav•d in Child-bearing, she continues in Faith and Charity and Holiness, with Sobriety, […] the Months of her Time; and puts her Husband also upon the Exercise of those Virtues, that it may not only be [She] but [They] that so Continues. By Faith ▪ she Relies upon the L•rd Jesus Christ, who was Born of a Woman, for the Salvation both of her Soul and of her Babe, if God should not permit her to out-live the Dangerous Agonies of her Travail; By Faith, she depend• upon the Pow•r and Wisdom and Goodness of God, for her Seasonable Deliverance. Like S••ah Judging hi• Faithful• who has promised Th• B•rden which is in her, she do's •y Faith, Transfer into •he Omnipotent Hands of that […], whose Invitation to her i•, Cast thy Burden on the Lord; and she s•arches •he B•bl•, especially the Psalter, for Words to plead with the Lord upon this great Aff•ir: •hat word particularly is a Support unto •er▪ […] ⟨image ?⟩41.10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee; •eno• Dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the Right Hand of my Righteousness; and that word in