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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
Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion. OR The Character and Happiness… › APPLICATION.
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.
APPLICATION.
BUT shall it now be seen, that Women will more generally aspire after this Character and this Happiness? The petulant P•ns of some ⟨p. 43⟩Froward and Morose Men, have sometimes treated the Female Sex with very great Indignities; Blades, I guess, whose Mothers had Undutiful Children, or whose Wives have had but cruel Masters. I am loth to show my Catalogue, nevertheless whole V•l•m•s have been written, to disgrace that Sex, as if it were, as one of those Unnatural Authors calls it, The mere Confusion of Mankind. Yea, tis no• easy to recount how many Licentious Writers, have handled that Theme, Femina nulla bona, No Woman is Go•d! [or the men were bad that said so] But, behold, how you may Recover your Impaired Reputation! the, Fear of God, will soon make it evident, that you are among, The Excellent in the Earth. If any men are so wicked (and some Sects of men h•ve been so) as to deny your being Rational •Creatures, the best mean to confute them, will be by proving your selves Religious ones. I do ass•re you, and I h•ve more than Luther to consent and concur with me, in this Assertion, That the Actions of even the meanest Milkmaid or Cook maid, when done in the Fear of God, are in the Account of God more Noble Things than the Victories of a Caesar! Thus do I s•t before you, the way for you to be Enn•bled; and thus Ennobled, many of you already are. When the Golden mouthed Ancient had so far forg•t himself as to call a Woman, An Unavoidable Punishment a Necessary Evil, a Desirable Calamity. With more such Iron Words, he sees cause to add, Sermo estde muliere mala; […]. My Speech is of a bad Woman; and not of