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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.
I. Her Grief on the Death of her Husband, is Great and yet Wise, and as wisely ⟨image ?⟩Great as Greatly Wise. Her Mourning is more like a still Rain, than a loud Storm; and instead of B•llowing Passions which usually Moulder a way into a Total and the Coldest Forgetfulness, faster than the Corpse of the Husband in the Grave, she ha's a Silent but a Lasting sorrow▪ and yet that sorrow Moderated by a Filial Submission to the Hard of that Glorious God, before whom she Opens not her Mouth any more than Humbly to •ay, Lord, Thou didst it. •he will not by Intemperate Vexations and Afflictions of her self, make her self, like the Frantic Women in the E•st-Indies, which burn themselves to Death, in the Fire wherein they consume the Dead Bodies of their Husbands; but yet she calls her self, Marah, saying, The Lord ha's dealt bitterly with me▪
I. Her Grief on the Death of her Husband, is Great and yet Wise, and as wisely ⟨image ?⟩Great as Greatly Wise. Her Mourning is more like a still Rain, than a loud Storm; and instead of B•llowing Passions which usually Moulder a way into a Total and the Coldest Forgetfulness, faster than the Corpse of the Husband in the Grave, she ha's a Silent but a Lasting sorrow▪ and yet that sorrow Modera•ed by a Filial Submission to the Hard of that Glorious God, before whom she Opens not her Mouth any more than Humbly to •ay, Lord, Thou didst it. •he will not by Intemperate Vexations and Afflictions of her self, make her self, like the Frantick Women in the E•st-Indi•s, which burn themselves to Death, in the Fire wherein they consume the Dead Bodies of their Husbands; but yet she calls her self, Marah, saying, The Lord ha's dealt bitterly with me