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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.
The Being of a GOD is at once the Fear, and yet the Wish of her Godly Soul. If any Designing, Debauched Atheist, go to insinuate unto her; That the Notion of GOD, and HEAVEN, and HELL, and an Immortal SOUL, is but a Trick of some Cunning Divines, her Answer is with an Indignation, Speedy and Angry like a Flash of Lightning, Satan, be gone!
The Being of a GOD is at once the Fear, and yet the Wish of her Godly Soul. If any Designing, Debauched Atheist, go to insinuate unto her; That the No•ion of GOD, and HEAVEN, and HEL, and an Immortal SOVL, is but a Trick of some Cunning D•vines, her Answer is with an Indignation, Speedy and Angry like a Flash of Lightning, Satan, be gone!
NEXT; A Virtuous Woman has a most Reverent Respect and Regard, un•o all that ha• the Name of God upon it. They that have the Fear of God in them, are by Him so styled, in Mal. 4 2. You that F•ar my Name The Name of God is all tha•, whereby He makes Himself Known unto us; and a Virtuous Woman will not Irreverently U•e any such Thing, Lest She should be h•ld not Guiltless before the Lord. She will not utter the T•les of God in any Frothy and Foolish manner; nor will she have a Lo• Opinion of His Attributes; nor will she wi•h • Carnal Spirit come unto His Ordinances. Yea, so far she is from Affronting the Name of God her self, that although she should be Dressed never so Fine, yet if she Chance to hear the Name of God Blasphemed, she can Scarce forbear the Rending f her Clothes, as the Usage […]