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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 Fear of God, will Recommend • Woman to the Praise & so to the Choice of such men, as it may be desirable to have the Good Opinion of. For a Woman to be Praised, i• for her to be Married, in Scriptural Phraseology; thus tis Lamented among the Judgments of God, in Psal. 78 63. Their Maidens were not Praised unto Marriage. Now the Fear of God, is the best way f•r a Woman to dispose of her self to such a Marriage, as men usually Court non•, but such as they hear much Praised, unto. When the Scripture speaks of the Marriage which Antichrist forbids unto his Filthy and Wicked Clergy, it […] it. The desire of Women. Tis that which Women that have any Regard unto Honour, will Desire, wi•h Disdain to be otherwise Enj•y'd▪ ⟨image ?⟩like that Ingenious Woman, who having her Chastity Solicited, gave that Answer, You must first Give me, what you neither have, nor can •ave your self, and what yet you can give to me ▪ that was, A Chaste Husband. The Truth is to be Married unto a Vain, Wild, Ungodly man, is that which no Discreet Woman will Desire any more than to dwell with a Dragon. The Excellent Basill chose to be beheaded, rather than Marry a Pagan Husband. But as for Prudent and Pious Men, 'twill be The Desire to be Married unto such a Woman as is Eminent fr, The Fear of God. There was a Woman of whom it could be said, in Ruth. .11. All the Town do's know that thou art a Virtuous Woman; and you know, that this Woman was not Long without a Good Husband, who had first been taken with her Praise. We say, Matches are made in Heaven; and indeed, the Woman who by the Fear of God, ha's made sure of a Great Interest in Heaven, is most like to meet with such a Match as may give her cause to Thank Heaven all her Days. Tis possible, That Unsanctified men may Marry only for Portion or for Prettiness; how often do those Respects give us to see Matches made in Hll! and yet there are few men so Profane, as to look upon that Grace as undesirable in a Wife, of which they themselves are destitute But men that have the ear of God in themselves, when they Choose the Companions of their Lives, will ordinarily Choose to have such, as they shall hear Praised for, The Fear of God; when they do otherwise,