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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.
V. When she is Matched unto a Second Husband, whom she will never twit with any Reflecting and Uncomely Remembrances of her ⟨image ?⟩First; She is more than Ordinarily Solicitous to be, A Good Mother in Law, if she must be One at all; and so do her part for the Removing of those Imputations, which Mothers in Law have generally Laboured under. She knows that the way for her to have the Blessing of Heaven upon Her Children, is for her to make her self a Blessing to His; and Unkindnesses to the Motherless Little Birds which now call her, Their D•m, will Certainly be Repaid by the Just Revenges of God. She is therefore so far from the partiality of that Mother-in law, who when her own Child hurt a Child of her Husbands by Throwing of a Stone, Whipped the Child that felt the Stone for standing in the Way of the Child▪ that s••ng it; that she makes no Observable Difference between his Children and hers; unless it be This, That She Correct• hers her self, and refers his to Him; and yet for her at any Time to inform her Husband of any Ill Manners in his Children, is a thing whereto she has an Aversion so Extreme, that she will never do it, unless upon Extreme Necessity. Indeed she Essays to be such a Wife unto him, that she may no• merit the Name which the Second Wife of Lamech had; Namely, Zillah, or, but, A Shadow, of a Wife: much less would she be as the First of them was called, an Asa, that is, An Afflicter, to him.
V. When she is Match•d unto a Second Husband, whom she will never twit with any Reflecting and Uncomely Remembrances of her ⟨image ?⟩First; She is more than Ordinarily Sollicitous to be, A Good Mother in Law, if she must be One at all; and so do her part for the Removing of those Imputations, which Mothers in Law have generally Laboured under. She knowes that the way for her to have the Blessing of Heaven upon Her Children, is for her to make her self a Blessing to His; and Unkindnesses to the Motherless Little Birds which now call her, Their Dm, will Certainly be Repay'd by the Just Revenges of God. She is therefore so far from the partiality of that Mother-in law, who when her own Child hurt a Child of her Husbands by Throwing of a Stone, Whipped the Child that felt the Stone for standing in the Way of the Child that sng it; that she makes no Observable Difference between his Children and hers; unless it be This, That She Correct hers her self, and refers his to Him; and yet for her at any Time to inform her Husband of any Ill Manners in his Children, is a thing whereto she has an Avrsin so Extream, that she will never do it, unless upon Extream Necssity. Indeed she Essayes to be such a Wife unto him, that she may no merit the Name which the Second Wife of Lamech had; Nmely, Zillah, or, but, A Shadow, of a Wife: much less would she be as the First of them was called, an Aah, that is, An Afflicter, to him.