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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.
III. She reckons that she must now be Father as well as Mother to the Orphans with whom she is Left Entrusted; and their Fathers Beloved Image on them, do's f•rther Augment, ⟨p. 101⟩ye•, Double her Care concerning them. While her Husband was Alive, she still acted as a Deputy Husband, for the maintaining of all good Orders in the House, when he was out of the way. And now her Husband is Deceased, she thinks that upon the S•t•ing of the S•n, the Moon is to Govern, and there shall not be o•e Prayer the less performed, or one Fault the more Indulged, among her poor Lambs, because he is gone. The Kindred, of her Expired Husband are also still Welcome and Grateful to her, upon his Account. But she is now particularly more Solicitous than ever to Teach her Children how to obtain that Favour of God, When my Father is gone, the Lord shall take me up. Some Women have the Names of Men, a little altered, as Jaquet (from Jacoba) Joanna, Joan, Jane, Jennet ▪ (all from John) Thomasin Philippa, Frances, Henrietta, Antonia, Julian, Dionysia, and the like; But all our Widows are put upon thus doing the Works of Men; may their God help them!
III. She reckons that she must now be Father as well as Mother to the Orphans with whom she is Left Entrusted; and their Fathers Beloved Image on them, do's f•rther Augment, ⟨p. 101⟩ye•, Double her Care concerning them. While her Husband was Alive, she still acted as a Deputy Husband, for the maintaining of all good Orders in the House, when he was out of the way. And now her Husband is Deceas'd, she thinks that upon the S•t•ing of the S•n, the Moon is to Govern, and there shall not be oe Prayer the less performed, or one Fault the more Indulged, among her poor Lambs, because he is gone. The Kindred, of her Expired Husband are also still Welcome and Grateful to her, upon his Account. But she is now particularly more Sollicious than ever to Teach her Children how to obtain that Favour of God, When my Father is gone, the Lord shall take me up. Some Women have the Names of Men, a little altered, as Jaquet (from Jacoba) Joanna, Joan, Jane, Jennet (all from John) Thomasin Philippa, Frances, Hnrietta, Antonia, Jlian, Dionysia, and the lik; But all our Widows are put upon thus doing the Works of Men; may their God help them!