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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.
III. When she is well Delivered, she is a true. Judith, or a Pra•sing O•e; O how is that Thankful Question immediately Working in her Breast. What shall I Render to the Lo•• for all His B•••f•ts! When she […] her […] strong Enough to Hear and Think, she […] The Hundred and Sixteenth Psalm, to be Rea• unto her; and when she Contemplates what a• Million of Mercies there are in the Birth of one Perfect Child, she would, if it were Proper, N•me every One, M••etabel, that is, How Good is God! However, She now Devo••• […] ⟨image ?⟩Child unto God, saying with Hannah, I have •ut it unto the Lord as long as it Lives; even, […] Daughter sh•ll be a Bathsheba, that is, A Daughter of an Oath, to God, that so she may be a Bathsh•a that is, A Daughter of Salvation •rom the Lord. And she desires the Baptism of it, no• as the Formality of putting a Name upon it, nor as an Opportunity for Dressing and Showing of it, but that thus Coming into the B•nd of the Covenant, it may Pass under the Lords Tithing Rod, as a Lamb set a part for Him. And how ardent are her Groans, as if she were even Travelling in Birth again, That her Child may be washed in the Laver of the New-Birth betimes!
III. When she is well Delivered, she is a true. Judith, or a Pra•sing O•e; O how is that Thankful Question immediately Working in her Breast. What shall I Render to the Lo•• for all His Bfts! When she her strong Enough to Hear and Think, she The Hundred and Sixteenth Psalm, to be Rea unto her; and when she Contemplates what a Million of Mercies there are in the Birth of one Perfect Child, she would, if it were Proper, Nme every One, Metabel, that is, How Good is God! However, She now Devo