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The way to excel. Meditations, awakened by the death of the Reverend Mr. Joshua…
The way to excel. Meditations, awakened by the death of the Reverend Mr. Joshua Moodey; with some short character of that eminent person: who slept in Jesus, 4d. 5.m. 1697. In the sixty fifth year of his age. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Six lines from Joshua]
printed by B. Green, 1697
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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.
I remember the Apostle Enjoins the Woman in the Church to have a covering on her Head, in Token of Subjection to her Husband; Because of the Angels. [2 Cor. 11.10.] Why, if you turn to the Beginning of the sixth Chapter of Isaiah, you'll find the Angels before their Superior, the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Temple assuming a Covering, out of the Reverence which they pay unto Him. Hence then, says the Apostle, it becomes Women to take Example by the Angels; let them consider, how the Angels behave themselves in the Presence of the Son of God, who is the Grand Representative of the Image and Glory of God; and let them in their Habit show some Analogy to the Habit of the Angels: betokening their Subjection to the man, who is under the Lord Jesus Christ, the Image and Glory of God, while They the Women, are so of the man. But I only touch ⟨p. 12⟩on this gloss, by the by. What I insist on, is, That the Angelical Example is to be imitated.
I remember the Apostle Enjoins the Woman in the Church to have a covering on her Head, in Token of Subjection to her Husband; Because of the Angels. [2 Cor. 11.10.] Why, if you turn to the Beginning of the sixth Chapter of Isaiah, you'l find the Angels before their Superiour, the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Temple assuming a Covering, out of the Reverence which they pay unto Him. Hence then, says the Apostle, it becomes Women to take Example by the Angels; let them consider, how the Angels behave themselves in the Presence of the Son of God, who is the Grand Representative of the Image and Glory of God; and let them in their Habit show some Analogy to the Habit of the Angels: betokening their Subjection to the man, who is under the Lord Jesus Christ, the Image and Glory of God, while They the Women, are so of the man. But I only touch ⟨p. 12⟩on this gloss, by the by. What I insist on, is, That the Angelical Example is to be imitated.