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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.
FOURTHLY, A Virtuous Woman Labours ⟨image ?⟩to Please and Serve the great God, with the greatest of her cares. The Fear of God, i• thus described by the Apostle, in H•b. 12.2•. Let us Serve God Acceptably with Reverence an• Godly Fear. And no•hing is more Acceptable to the Virtuous Woman, than that she may Acceptably Serve her God. Let her be […] never so High Rank, she thinks it no stoop fo• her, to be a Servant of that Lord, who ha• all the Angels in Heaven for His Ministers ▪ nor do's her Opinion vary from that of those Apostles who chose, to be called, The Servants of Jesus Christ, when they might have been called, His Kinsmen; or of those Emperors, who valued it as one of their Prerogatives, to subscribe themselves, The V•ssels of the Lord Jesus Christ! Let her be of never so Low Rank, She will not stoop to be a Servant of the World, or of •he Flesh, or of •he D•vel; nor can she brook that the Curse of so being, A Servant of Servants, ever should come upon her. When sh• Contemplates that Lord, who is, A Greater than Solomon. She cries out, Happy are thy Servants; Oh that I might be one of them ▪ And she would always be doing the will of God, in such a manner, as may be pleasing to Him. We read of One, He had this Testimony, that He pleased God. Now, That is the Testimonial to be given of the Virtuous Woman; She aspires after the Imitation of the Lord Jesus, in, Doing always▪ the things that please the Father. It is the Name of a Good man, The man that Pleaseth God; and whatever Change the Name of this Woman may ⟨image ?⟩