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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.
IX. The Woman that must be the Highest or the Soonest in every New Fashion, will herein always keep the Old Fashion of a, Proud Fool It is required of us, Let your Moderation […] known unto all m•n; but for a Woman to ⟨p. 58⟩betray such a Levity, that nothing will please her but Changeable Taffeta; and it shall be as easy to make a Coat for the Moon, as to accommodate her fickle Humour, with One unto her mind; or f•r her to betray such an Ambition, that none shall come to her Dimensions without an Observable Exorbitancy,—this is quite Contrary to a Christian Moderation. If when our Lord should say, She seeks me early, tis on•y the Gallantry of the Age that can say, She is an ea•l• seeke• of me; if when our Lord asketh of her, What dost thou more than others? all her Answer must be, I Flint it more, and I brave it m•re! tis but a miserable Story that is to be told of her.
IX. The Woman that must be the High•st or the Soonest in every New Fashion, will herein alwayes keep the Old Fa•hion of a, Proud Fool It is required of us, Let your Moderation 〈…〉 known unto all m•n; but for a Woman to ⟨p. 58⟩betray such a Levity, that nothing will please her but Changeable Taffata; and it shall be as easy to make a Coat for the Moon, as to accommodate her fickle H•mour, with One unto her mind; or f•r her to betray such an Ambition, that none shall come to her Dimensions wi•hout an Observable Ex•rbitancy,—this is quite Contrary to a Christian Moderation. If when our Lord should say, She seeks me early, tis ony the Gallantry of the Age that can say, She is an eal seeke of me; if when our Lord asketh of her, What dost thou more than others? all her Answer must be, I Flnt it more, and I bave it mre! tis but a mserable Story that is to be told of her.