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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.
IV. Her Care for the Bodies of her Children shows it self in her Nursing of them her self, if God have made her Able for it, and it Easy for her. She is not a Dame that shall S•orn to Nourish in the World, the Children who• she ha's already Nourished in her Womb: if like Sarah, she be a Lady ▪ yet she counts it no• below her to be a Nurse. If God have granted her Bottles of Milk on her Breast, she thinks that her Children have a Claim unto them. It shall not be her Niceness, but •er Necessity and Calamity, if she do not Suckle •er own Off-Spring; and she will not from ••oth and Pride, be so Unnatural as to give Cause for that Exclamation. The Sea-Monsters, draw out the Breast, they give suck to their Young ones; But the Daughter of my People, is become Cruel, like the Ostrich in the Wilderness, who is hardened against her Young ones, as though ⟨p. 94⟩they were not hers. Now having Nursed her Young ones, tis her next care, that they be well provided, as with such Conveniences as belong to their present state, so with such Callings and Portions as may hereafter make them Serviceable in their Generation; and when they are grown Marriageable, her Discretion and her Tenderness is yet more Eminently seen in her Matching of them.
IV. Her Care for the Bodies of her Children showes it self in her Nursing of them her self, if God have made her Able for it, and it Easy for her. She is not a Dame that shall S•orn to Nourish in the World, the Children who• she ha's already Nourish'd in her Womb: if like Sarah, she be a Lady ▪ yet she counts it no• below her to be a Nurse. If God have granted her Bottles of Milk on her Breast, she thinks that her Children have a Claim unto them. It shall not be her Niceness, but •er Necess•ty and Calamity, if she do not Suckle er own Off-Spring; and she will not from oth and Pride, be so Unnatural as to give Cause for that Exclamation. The Sea-Monsters, draw out the Breast, they give suck to their Young ones; But the Daughter of my People, is become Cruel, like the Ostrich in the Wilderness, who is hardened against her Young ones, as though