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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 5.
COVNSEL 5.
THERE is one peculiar Thing more, which you should see that your, Fear of God, extend •t self unto; and that is, your APPAREL, which you are often Accused for Transgressing […]. Where the Fear of God Sanctifies the Heart, it will doubtless Regulate the Habit. Pray let the, Fear of God, make you able to stand before the, Word of God; where Women are commanded in 1 Pet. 3▪2, 3, 4. to have, A Coast Conversation coupled with Fear; whose Adorning ('tis added) Let it not be the outward Adorning▪ but let it be the Hidden man of the Heart. For •fter this manner in the old Time, the H•ly Women also who trusted in God, Adorned themselves. And in 1 Tim. 2.9. That they Adorn themselves in modest Apparel with shame facedness and Sobriety; not with Broidered Hair, or •old, or Pearls, or Costly Array; but (which becometh Women professing Godliness) with God Works. 'Tis true that more Indulgence may be given •o Women and Children in point of Apparel, than to Men; They were the Wives and the Little Sons and the Daughters ▪ which we find wearing most of Ornaments among the Ancient People of God; And yet unto you also, has the God of Heaven given a Law, agreeably to which you are to Attire your selves. You shall permit me to lay before you, a few Maxs, every One of which are so many just Consequences from the Scriptures that have been given you.