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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.
II. For a Woman to put her self into a Fashion, that shall prejudice, either her Health, or her Work, is to break all the other Eight Commandments as well as the Sixth and the Eighth, which are thereby notoriously violated. They that say, Pride feels no Cold, do often ⟨p. 54⟩catch a Mortal Cold that they may please a foolish Pride, and the Heat of Hell-flames is that which they thus hasten upon themselves. They that profanely say, As good out of the World as out of the Fashion, often follow such a Fashion, as either hurries them out of the World, or unfits them for Living in it. Creatures yet, than which none would be more loth to put on such a Pitched Coat of Martyrdom, as Nero clapped on the B•cks of them that Worshipped out blessed Jesus, to burn them in it. But what Account can they give at last? when Women go so, that they cannot Eat or Breathe, be sure they cannot Work; and it is just with God that they who thus cannot Work ▪ should no• be permitted long to Eat or Breathe.
II. For a Woman to put her self into a Fashion, that shall prejudice, either her Health, or her Work, is to break all the other Eight Commandments as well as the Sixth and the Eighth, which are thereby notoriously v•olated. They that say, Pride feels no Cold, do often ⟨p. 54⟩catch a Mortal Cold that they may please a foolish Pride, and the Heat of Hell-flames is that which they thus hasten upon themselves. They that profanely say, As good out of the World as out of the Fashion, often follow such a Fashion, as either hurri•s them out of the World, or unfits them for Living in it. Creatures yet, than which none would be more loth to put on such a Pitch•d Coat of Martyrdome, as Nero clap'd on the B•cks of them that Worshipped out blessed Jesus, to burn them in it. But what Account can they give at last? when Women go so, that they cannot Eat or Breathe, be sure they cannot Work; and it is just with God that they who thus cannot Work should no be permitted long to Eat or Breathe.