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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.
FIRST, Get a Lively sense of your own Spiritual Death, Sinfulness and Wretchedness. Behold your selves hunted and haunted by the Avengers of Sin, and ready to be Destroyed if a Refuge be not provided for you. When you hear the Voice of God, as a Judge Enquiring after you, let it make you as much Afraid as your first Mother in the first Garden was. Take a View of your own Condition, as the Word of God ha's Represented it; and let no Creatures whatsoever then Quiet the Agonies thence arising in your minds. Think on the terrible Wants and Woes of your S•uls; th•nk on the Guilt, and F•l•h and Slavery wherein you are perishing every day; think on the Ever-burning Fire, and of the never dying Worm ▪ which you are every day in danger of going d•wn into; think till you cry out, Oh Wretched Woman that I am! Who shall deliver me? Let not all the Pleasures and Profits and Honours of this World al•ay the Distresses which your Souls are now cast into; call 'em all, Miserable Comforters! and, Lying Vanities! and, Physicians of no value! If […] now offer to procure your Deliverance, treat that Idol with Contempt, and unspeakable Disdain. As for any Righteousness of your own to answer the Demands of the Law, acknowledge, 'Tis all Filthiness; as for any Strength of your own▪ •o fulfil so much as the Commands of th• Gospel, acknowledge, I have no Sufficiency! pronounce your s•ves LOST, and write yo•• selves, Wretched and Poor and miserable and […] and Naked.
FIRST, Get a Lively sence of your own Spiritual Death, Sinfulness and Wretchedness. Behold your selves hunted and haunted by the Avengers of Sin, and ready to be Destroy'd if a R•fuge be not provided for you. When you hear the Voice of God, as a Judge Enquiring after you, let it make you as much Afraid as your first Mother in the first Garden was. Take a View of your own Condition, as the Word of God ha's Represented it; and let no Creatures whatsoever then Quiet the Agonies thence arising in your minds. Think on the terrible Wants and Woes of your Suls; thnk on the Guilt, and Flh and Slavery wherein you are peshing every day; think on the Ever-burning Fire, and of the never dying Worm which you are every day in dangr of going dwn into; think till you cry out, Oh Wrethed Woman that I am! Who shall deliver mee? Let not all the Pleasures and Profits and Honours of this World alay the Dstresses which your Souls are now cast into; call 'em all, Miserable Comforters! and, Lying Vaities! and, Phsitians of no value! If now offr to procure your Dlierance, treat that Idol with Contempt, and unspeakable Dsdain. As for any Rightousness of your own to answer the Demands of the Law, acknowledge, 'Tis all Filthiness; as for any Strength of your own o fulfil so much as the Commands of th Gospel, acknowledge, I have no Sufficiency! pronounce your sves LOST, and write yo selves, Wretched and Poor and miserable and and Naked.