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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. It is now her main study and solace to have an interest in that Promise, Isa. 54 5. Thy Maker is thy Husband. And therefore, like her whom the Apostle calls, A Widow indeed ▪ she, Trusteth in God▪ and Continueth in Supplications and Prayers, Night and Day. She Considers her self as now more than ever belonging to, The Family of God; with a persuasion that He will Certainly and Faithfully Provide for her. Hence also, The Time that she formerly spent in Conversation with her Husband, she now spends in Supplication to, and Meditation on, her God; and by an Extraordinary Devotion, she seeks to find all that in the All-sufficient JESUS, which may Repair the Absence of the b•st […] upon Earth. She is an Elizabeth, or one to ⟨image ?⟩whom the Fullness of God, in the Promise of God is enough.
II. It is now her main study and solace to have an interest in that Promise, Isa. 54 5. Thy Maker is thy Husband. And therefore, like her whom the Apostle calls, A Widow indeed ▪ she, Trusteth in God▪ and Continueth in Supplications and Prayers, Night and Day. She Considers her self as now more than ever belonging to, The Family of God; with a persw•sion that He will Cer•ainly and Faithfully Provide for her. Hence also, The Time that she formerly spent in Conv••sation with her Husband, she now spends in Supplication to, and Meditation on, her God; and by an Extraordinary Devotion, she seeks to find all that in the Alsufficient JESUS, which may R•pair the Absence of the b•st 〈…〉 upon Earth. She is an Elizabeth, or one to ⟨image ?⟩