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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.
The Virtuous WIDOW.
The Vertuous WIDOW.
THE Vast Numbers of Poor Widows in Every Neighbourhood, make it very Suspicious, that our Virtuous Mother may at some time or other, taste the Sad, Sour, Tear-full Cup •f Widow-hood ▪ If This be the Portion of her Cup, We must suppose that she gives her Husband a D•cent Burial; that is, as on the One side, a Funeral that shall not be b•low his Figure, so on the other side, a Funeral that shall not be above her Estate▪ and while she Dislikes the Expensive Humours of Poland, where two or three Funerals coming One upon another, are so Extravagantly Chargeable as to Ruin a whole Family; She nevertheless will give as Honourable a• Interment as ever she can to the Forsaken […] of the Soul which was dearer to her than the World.
THE Vast Numbers of Poor Widows in Every Neighbourhood, make it very Suspicious, that our Vertuous Mother may at some time or other, tast the Sad, Sowre, Tear-ful Cup •f Widow-hood ▪ If This be the Portion of her Cup, We must suppose that she gives her Husband a D•cent Burial; that is, as on the One side, a Funeral that shall not be b•low his F•gure, so on the other side, a Funeral that shall not be ab•ve her Estate▪ and while she D•slikes the Expe•sie Humors of Poland, where two or three Funerals coming One upon anoher, are so Extravagantly Chargeable as to Ruine a whole Family; She nevertheless will give as Honourable a Enterment as ever she can to the Forsaken of the Soul which was dearer to her than the World.