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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.
Conclusion. 1.
THE Virtuous Woman counts the best Female Favour to be Deceitful, the best Female Beauty to be Vain.
THE Vertuous Woman counts the best Female Favour to be Deceitful, the best Female Beauty to be Vain.
BY Favour is meant, a Com•ly Presence, an Handsome Carriage, a Decent Gesture, a Ready Wit agreeably expressing it self, with all other Graceful Motions, and whatsoever procures Favour for a Woman among her Neighbours. The Virtuous Woman is willing to have this Favour, so far as is consistent wi•h Virtue; She Counts it a Favour of God for one to be graced with it; But still she looks upon it as a Deceitful-Thing. She is careful, that She do not hereby Deceive her self into proud Imaginations, and into an Humour, Conceited of her self, or Contemptuous towards others. Careful She likewise is, lest hereby She Deceive Unwary men, •i•to those Amours which bewitching looks and Smiles do often betray the Children of men, especially those that are but Children of men, into.
BY Favour is meant, a Com•ly Presence, an Handsome Carriage, a Decent G•sture, a Ready Wit agreeably expressing it self, with all other Gracefull Motions, and whatsoever procures Favour for a Woman among her Neighbours. The Virtuous Woman is willing to have this Favour, so far as is consistent wi•h Vertue; Shee Counts it a Favour of God for one to be graced with it; But still she looks upon it as a Deceitfull-Thing. She is carefull, that She do not hereby Deceive her self into proud Imaginations, and into an Humour, Conceited of her self, or Contempteous towards ohers. Carefull She likewise is, lest hereby She Deceive Unwary men, ito those Amours which bewitching looks and Smiles do ofen betray the Children of men, especially those that are but Children of men, into.