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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.
III. For a Woman to Wear what is not evidently Consistent with Modesty, Gravity, and Sobriety, is to Wear not an Ornament ▪ but a Defilement; and She puts off those Glorious Virtues, when she puts on the Visible Badges of what is Contrary thereunto. The Command which requires any Grace ▪ requires also the Sign of that Grace; hence for a Woman with her Garish, Pompous, Flaunting Modes, to hang out the Sign, upon which every Rational Beholder thinks he ha's Liberty to Read, There dwells a Proud▪ Light, Vain, Giddy, Trifling Soul, in that Carcass! this is not according to God; who says, Whatsoever things are Venerable, whatsoever things are Lovely, whatsoever things are of Good R•port, Think of these things. They that would approve themselves. The Daughters of Abraham, are to be The Daughters of Sarah, too.
III. For a Woman to Wear what is not evidently Consistent with Modesty, Gravity, and Sobriety, is to Wear not an Ornament ▪ but a Defilement; and She puts off those Glorious Vertues, when she puts on the Visible Badges of what is Contrary thereunto. The Command which requ•res any Grace ▪ requires also the Sign of that Grace; hence for a Woman with her Garish, Pompous, Flanting Modes, to hang out the Sign, upon which every Rational Beholder thinks he ha's Liberty to Read, There dw•lls a Proud▪ Light, Vain, Giddy, Trifling Soul, in that Carcase! this is not according to God; who sayes, Whatsoev•r things are Venerable, whatso•ver things are Lovely, whatsoever things are of Good R•port, Think of these things. They that would approve themselves. The Daughters of Abraham, are to be The Daug•ters of Sarah, too.