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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.
COUNSEL 2.
COVNSEL 2.
HAVING obtained the, Fear of God, it should be your Ambition to be continually Exercisi•• ⟨image ?⟩of it. You are thus advised in Prov. 23.17. Be thou in the Fear of the Lord, all the day long. Let your whole wal• every Day, be a, Walk with God; and let every Action in the Day, be so done in •he, Fear of God, as •hat, Holiness to the Lord, may be written thereupon. Be sure to Begin and Conclude the Day with God; Rob Him not of His Daily Sacrifice. In the Morning be able to say, Oh God, wh•n I awake I am still with thee; Take a Mornings-Draught of Communion with G•d, first in your Closets, and then with your Houses, and of Resolution to behave your selves as having, The Lord always before you. In the Evening, Recollect the Mercies which you have newly Received of God; and Examine whether you have been so Zealous, Watchful Fruitful before God, as you should have been? and whether you can▪ Lie down in Peace with Him? Throughout all the Day, Interweave a, Conscience of D•ty, into all your motions, all your Affairs. Le• every Meal, every Sleep, every Visit, and all your Domestic Businesses, though […] be but the Rocking of a Cradle, be done with an Eye to This, This is the Thing wherein I may perform a Service to God, and Expect a Blessing from God […] Tis is what my God wold have me to be about. Herewithal, Intermingle many Sallies of Soul, towards Heaven every Day; by Rising of some Serious, Gracious, Divine Thoughts, from the meanest occurrents that are before you and by Pertinent Ealions to God, boh i a way of Petition and of Thanksgiving upon all Occasions. This tis to be, In the Fear of th rd, all the Day long, and Holy in every Turn