N00500:93
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.
COUNSEL 6.
COVNSEL 6.
BUT, without your, Faith in Christ, your; Fear of God, is utterly to be despaired of. No Good Fruit is to be expected from you, nor do I expect any Good Fruit of all the persuasives unto the, Fear of God, now used with you, unless by a Believing on, you come to an Union with, your L•rd Redeemer, who has told •ou, Without me you can do nothing ▪ Whoever pretends to Write the whole CALLING •f a Virtuous Woman, and forgets to urge Faith in the Lord J••sus Christ as the Root and Source of all […] Virtue, has finely left out the One Thing N••••ful. There is nothing so Needful for Wo••• to be advertised of, as a Message like […] was carried from the Lord Jesus to that […] ⟨image ?⟩of old, Arise, the Master calleth thee! The Last thing which therefore is now set before you, is mentioned Last, because 'tis the First thing that you are to set upon the practise of; 'Tis That of, Believing on the Lord Jesus Christ; 'tis the Answering of the Invitations which that Blessed Lord has given you, Look unto me, that you may be Saved, and, Come unto me, that yo• may have Rest We are told in Heb. 11 6. Without Faith, it is impossible to please God; and we may therefore say, Without Faith it is impossible to Fear God. It was when Faith in the promised Messiah was working in the Heart of our Father Abraham, that the Lord said, Now I know that thou Fearest me. Those two things are •oined by the Psalm•st, in