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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. 2.
THE Wisdom which is in, The Fear of God, makes Praise to be the One of the Woman that is Adorned with it. A wise Woman is justly a Praised Woman, and a Prized one, all over the world. The Wise Woman in the City of Abel, doubtless was more than a little Praised in the United Acclamations of that City. 'Tis said in Eccl. 8.1. A mans Wisdom makes hi• Face to shine; and a Woman's Wisdom does as much. No Favour, no Beauty is comparable to Wisdom; and tho' a person were all over sparkling with peerless Pearls, yet this is a Favour and a Beauty before which, No mention shall be made of Pearls; for the price of Wisdom is above Rabies: Now, who or where is the Wise Woman? or what is true Wisdom ▪ The Claim has been long since laid, by many sorts of w•r•y plodders, and crafty people, in the World; but the Apostle has put in that •ar unto their claim, That professing themselves to be Wise, they became Fools. If he Politician may challenge the praise of Wisdom, d•••tless those four MARIES which in the Last Age Swayed the Sceptres of so many Kingdoms with the Profound•st Policy, were Wise Women, •nd the Elizabeth which came after them, came […] behind them. Th•myris that could Lead ⟨image ?⟩an Army against the Persian, and Zenobia tha• could head an Army against the Roman, Emperor, were Wise Women. The Sabinian Women which directed the senate out of inextricable Difficulties, were Wise ones. It wa• a Wise Woman of Yek which could manage an Intrigue at Court for the Lord General of Israel. If the Philosopher may Challenge the Praise of Wisdom, doubtless those were Wise Women who were Tutoresses, if I may call them so, to the old famous Professors of all Philosophy. The Daughter of Pythagoras who made Comments on her Fathers Books, was a Wise Woman; and so was ippatia formerly, who caught the Liberal Arts, and wrote some Treatises of Astrology; and so Sarocchia more lately, who was Ordinarily Moderatrix in the Disputations of the Learned men at Rome. The Three Corinnae, which Equalled, if not Excelled, the most Celebrated Poets of their Times, were Wise: and such Ladies as Olympias, or Trota, whose Physical skill, was the wonder of the Universe. The Empress Edocia, who Composed Poetical Paraphrases on diverse parts of the Bible, was a Wise Woman; so was Rosuida who compiled the Lives of Holy men, and Pamphilia who Penned no Despicable Histories;