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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.
X. If a Woman spend more Time in Dressing, than she do's in Praying, or in Working, out her own Salvation, her Dress is but the Snare of her Soul. An Holy Person among the Ancients, beholding of one that had been long standing at the Glass, fell a Weeping, and gave this Reason for it, There's one that ha's this M•••ing s••nt f•r more T•m• f•r her Body, than I have done for my Soul How many Ladies would re•ite from their •lasses with Weeping Eyes, upon their own Account, if their Eyes were ever Turned Inward upon themselves, or upward unto an Angry God, or Down-ward unto a G••ing Hell, as they are Turned Awry to, Behold V•ity! When a Woman must be set out with a•m•st as much Tackling, as would serve the R•y•l Sovereign, and m•st be so taken up wi•h D•cking a Body which i• very shortly to f•ed the Worms, that her Soul which is •o Live through Eternal Ages, cannot be well Provided ⟨image ?⟩for, she Looses her own Soul, and yet Gains Nothing of that, which if it were All Gained, would not make up the Loss.
X. If a Woman spend more Time in Dressing, than she do's in Praying, or in Working, out her own Salvation, her Dress is but the Snare of her Soul. An Holy Person among the Ancients, b•holding of one that had been long standing at the Glass, fell a Weeping, and gave this Reason for it, There's one that ha's this Ming snt fr more Tm fr her Body, than I have done for my Soul How many Ladis would reite from their lasses with Weeping Eyes, upon their own Account, if their Eyes were ever Turned Inward upon themselves, or upward unto an Angry God, or Down-ward unto a Ging Hell, as they are Turned Awry to, Behold Vity! When a Woman must be set out with amst as much Tackling, as would serve the Ryl Soveraig, and mst be so taken up wih Dcking a Body which i very shrtly to fed the Worms, that her Soul which is o Live through Eternal Ages, cannot be well Provided