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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. 3.
THE Fear of God is that which the Heart of a Virtuous Woman is under the Power of. The Female Sex is naturally the Fearful Sex; but the Fear of God is that which Exceeds (and ⟨image ?⟩sometimes Extinguishes) all other Fears, in the Virtuous Woman. To state this matter aright, we are to know, That the Fear of God is an Old Testament Expression, as the Love of God is a New Testament one, for all true Religion whatsoever. It may then be said of a Virtuous Woman, That she is a Religious Woman; She ha's Bound her self again to that God, whom She had by the Sin and Fall of her First Mother departed from; She ha's a Love which do's not cast out the Fear that is no Fault, but confirm and settle her in that Fear of God; That all kind of Piety and of Charity is prevailing in her Disposition; That Sobriety and Righteousness and Godliness are Visible in her whole Behaviour; and, That She does Justice, l•ves M•rcy, and walks Humbly with her G•d. But that we may speak somewhat more particularly.
THE Fear of God is that which the Heart of a Vertuous Woman is under the Power of. The Female Sex is naturally the Fearful Sex; but the Fear of God is that which Exceeds (and ⟨image ?⟩sometimes Extinguishes) all other Fears, in the Vertuous Woman. To state this mat•er aright, we are to know, That the Fear of God is an Old Testament Expression, as the Love of God is a New Testament one, for all true R•ligion whatsoever. It may then be said of a Vertuous Woman, That she is a Religious Woman; She ha's Bound her self again to that God, whom She had by the Sin and Fall of her First Mother departed from; She ha's a Love which do's not cast out the Fear that is no Fault, but confirm and settle her in that Fear of God; That all kind of Piety and of Charity is prevailing in her Disposition; That Sobriety and Righteousness and Godliness are Visible in her whole Behaviour; and, That She does Jstce, lves Mrcy, and walks Humbly with her Gd. But that we may speak somewhat more paricularly.