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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.
VIII. When a Woman finds her Superfluous Accoutrements, to Excite any Lust in her self, She should no longer carry about her the Flint and Steel that strike fire into the Tinder of her Corruptions: If Mary's locks have Entangled her self or others, it becomes her to turn them into a Towel for the feet of the Lord Jesus. To nourish and foment any Distemper in our mind•, is for us to Wrong our own Souls, with a Frenzy greater than that of the Possessed Creature, which kept Cutting and Wounding himself among the Monuments of the Dead. For a Woman to indulge her self in a Gaiety, which as of on as •is put on, disposes her Soul to such a Vanity, as indispos•s her to Devotion, or throws her into a Frame di• greeable to that of a Stranger and a Pilgrim in the World; this truly do's not, Adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour.
VIII. When a Woman finds her Superfluous Acco•trements, to Excite any Lust in her self, She should no longer carry about her the Flint and Steel that strike fire into the Tynder of her Corruptions: If Maryes locks have Entangled her self or others, it becomes her to turn them into a Towel for the feet of the Lord Jesus. To nourish and foment any Distemper in our mind•, is for us to Wrong our own Souls, with a P•rensy greater than that of the Possessed Creature, which kept Cutting and Wounding himself among the Monuments of the Dead. For a Woman to indulge her self in a Gaiety, which as of on as •is put on, disposes her Soul to such a Vanity, as indispos•s her to Devotion, or throwes her into a Frame di• greeable to th•t of a Stranger and a Pilgrim in the World; this truly do's not, Adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour.