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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.
I. For a Woman to Expose unto Common View th•se p•rts of her Body, which there can be no Good End or Use for the Exposing of▪ ⟨image ?⟩is for her to Expose her self unto the Vengeance of Heaven. There is indeed a Covering of the Skin, which is but a Black Mark of one that never yet had a Covering for her Sin. The Black Patches worn by too many Females, are indeed so many Bl•w ones; they are the Tokens of a Plague in the Soul. They are not, the spots of Gods Children, but the Dapples of a Leopard ▪ that will never, Learn to do w•ll. They are for the most part upon the Faces that never were washed, in the Blood of the Lamb without Spot• ; nor do they argue the Soul within to be one unto whom our Lord may say, Thou art all fair, there is no Spot in thee. But there is a Nakedness of the Skin which is also, and as much, to be accounted Criminal. The Face is to be Naked because of what is to be Known by it; the Hands are to be Naked, because of what is to be Done by them. But for the Nakedness of the Back and B••asts, No Reason can be given; unless it be that a Woman may by showing a Fair-Skin Enkindle• a Fo•l Fire in the Male Spectators; for which cause even Popish Writers have no less Righteously th•n severely Lashed them; and for Protestant Women to use them, is no less inexcusable than it is Abominable: nor did a Golden Mouth of old stick to say, The Devil sat upon them!
I. For a Woman to Expose unto Common View th•se p•rts of her Body, which there can be no Good End or Use for the Exposing of▪ ⟨image ?⟩