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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.
THIS is the Woman whom the Angels of Heaven do most gladly Encamp about. We have received Information from the Invisible World, by Psal. 34.7. That the Angel of the Lord Encampeth about them that F•ar Him, and delivers them. A Woman is usually by Law under C•v•rt; but it is an Angelical Covert which this Woman has by the Law of Heaven placed over her. She sometimes has an occasion for a Deliverance; and the host Angel in Heaven, Perhaps the same Angel that visited Mary of old, is upon the Wing •o hasten it unto her. She has a continual, tho' it may be an Insensible Conversation, with Angels of better Account, ⟨image ?⟩than the Sons of God which were Entangled with the Daughters of men, in the Antediluvian World; these are her Guardians, her Protectors, and her Monitors. When she was first Converted unto God, she made, Joy among the Angels, because of another Spirit come in to fill up the Room-left in Heaven by the Apostate Legions: It gave a Triumph unto those Morning Stars, to see one that shall sh•r• ly come to move in Their O•b. And now she has, Praise among the Angels; they shout and say, H•re is an H•ir of Salvation; and we have the welcome and happy care of Looking after her.
THIS is the Woman whom the Ang•ls of Heaven do most gladly Encamp about. We have received Information from the Inv•si•le World, by Psal. 34.7. That the Ang•l of the Lord Encampeth about them that F•ar Him, and delivers them. A Woman is usually by Law under C•vrt; but it is an Agelial Covert which this Woman has by the Law of Heaven placed over her. She smetimes has an occasion for a Dliverance; and the host Angel in Heaven, Perhaps the same Angel that visited Mary of old, is upon the Wing o hasten it unto her. She has a continual, tho' it may be an Insensible Conversation, with Angls of better Account,