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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.
V. A Woman, whose Raiment is too Costly to leave her capable of attending the Duties of Justice and M•rcy, commits but a piece of shining Thievery, in that cheating and cruel Finery. She that thro' Excesses in Attiring of her self, is unfitted, for the payment of what she owes, either to her private Creditors, or to the support of the Government and the Ministry, by which her Civil and Sacred Well-fare is Watched unto, is utterly unworthy, Either ⟨p. 56⟩of Credit, or of any Civil or Sacred Advantages. But there are Works of Charity as well as Works of Righteousness, which a Woman is also under such obligation to, that all Superfluities are to be Retrenched for the sake thereof. It seems but Reasonable, That whenever we lay out any thing for purely Ornamental Superfluities ▪ we should lay out as much in Clothing and Feeding ••e Distressed Members of the Lord Jesus Christ; I doubt we shall make up very mean Accounts about our Talents, if we do not so.
V. A Woman, whose Rayment is too Costly to leave her capable of attending the Duties of Justice and M•rcy, commits but a piece of shining Theevery, in that cheating and cruel Finery. She that thro' Excesses in Attiring of her self, is unfitted, for the payment of what she owes, either to her private Creditors, or to the support of the Government and the Ministry, by which her Civil and Sacred Well-fare is Watch'd unto, is utterly unworthy, Either ⟨p. 56⟩of Credit, or of any Civil or Sacred Advantages. But there are Works of Charity as well as Works of Rig•teousness, which a Woman is also under such obligation to, that all Superstuities are to be Retrenched for the sake thereof. It seems but Reasonable, That whenever we lay out any thing for purely Ornamental Superfluities ▪ we should lay out as much in Cloathing and Feeding ••e Distressed Members of the Lord Jesus Christ; I doubt we shall make up very mean Accounts about our Talents, if we do not so.