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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.
WE have not only the Song of Deborah, the Song of Hannah, the Song of Mary, and the Prophecy of Huldah, in this matchless book of our God; but the instructions of Bathsheba too, are entered in these bl•ss•d Registers. The Thirty first Chapter of the Proverbs, contains a direction of Bathsheba to her darling Solomon. Solomon that in the fourth chapter of this Book, records the Counsels of his Father, now in the last chapter adds the Counsels of his Mother thereunto. So careful will wise children be to remember the gracious counsels of their godly Parents! We have Solomon here addressed by the name of Lemuel, which name some interpreters judge to be a little and a loving imitation of his true Name; […] tis usual with our Mothers, from the names of Edward and William and the like, to form some affectionate Appellations ⟨p. 7⟩for us; but others waving so small a consideration, do look upon Le•uel as one of the eight names which the Jews do ascribe unto that man of Name, and they tell us, that as Jedid•ah proclaimed his being Beloved of •he Lord, […] Lemuel signified his Belonging to the Lord. S•me famous persons in the world, have b•en signalized by that Character of being Mother-taught; such an one was our Solomon, wh• had not only a Father, that left behind him▪ Transcendent Songs for Solomon, but also a Mother ▪ who taught him such things as the best should not be unwilling to learn. How free, how •ich is the Grace of God unto Repenting sinners! Bathsheba after a very scandalous F•ll, becomes • very eminent S•int, yea, a Prophetess of the Lo•d. Although a woman may have be•n Remarkable and Notorious for sin, yet let her endeavour to make her peace with God: I may be made, and she may enter into the Kingdom of eaven, before others that have not had such wouds upon them.