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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.
Moreover, if she be Capable of it, she will now more Abound in all the Exercises of Charity towards her Needy Neighbours; whether the have the Name of A••ee or no, yet according to the Signification of it, She'll be, Noble•: and she will be an Helena, or an Eleanor which is to say as much as, Pitiful: her Visits, her Bounties, and her Succours to the Poor, are now increased rather than abated, with her New Leisure for them; and if she be a Person of Quality, she becomes yet more Excellent for This Quali•y ▪ What is a Lady, in true and Old English, but a Loaf dian, that is, A Bread server? Or, One that will give Loafs of Bread unto the Indigent? She is both an Anna▪ a Widow which departs not from the Temple, but serves God with Fastings and Prayers Night and Day; and a Dorcas, a Widow full of Good Works and Al•s Deeds. Thus will she, to better purpose than once another Woman did, Explain the Riddle of Sampson, by finding, Honey in a Carcass: promoting the Life of her own Soul, by the Death of him whom she Loved as her own So•l. Much less will she ever venture to Do any thing unworthy the Character and Relation of that Person (if he were a Worthy Person) whose Relict she is now become.
Moreover, if she be Capable of it, she will now more Abound in all the Exercises of Charity towards her Needy Neighbours; whether the have the Name of A••ee or no, yet according to the Signification of it, She'l be, Noble•: and she will be an Helena, or an Eleanor which is to say as much as, Pittiful: her Visits, her Bounties, and her Succours to the Poor, are now increased rather than abated, with her New Leasure for them; and if she be a Person of Quality, she becomes yet more Excellent for This Quali•y ▪ What is a Lady, in true and Old English, but a Loaf dian, that is, A Bread server? Or, One that will give Loafs of Bread unto the Ind•gent? She is both an Anna▪ a Widow which departs not from the Temple, but serves God with Fastings and Prayers Night and Day; and a Dorcas, a Widow full of Good Works and Als Deds. Thus will she, to better purpose than once another Woman did, Explain the Riddle of Sampson, by finding, Honey in a Carcase: promoting the Life of her own Soul, by the Death of him whom she Loved as her own Sol. Much less will she ever venture to Do any thing unworthy the Charctr and Relation of that Person (if he were a Worthy Person) whose Relict she is now become.