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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65957	The whole duty of a woman: or a guide to the female sex From the age of sixteen to sixty, &c. Being directions, how women of all qualities and conditions, ought to behave themselves in the various circumstances of this life, for their obtaining not only present, but future happiness. I. Directions how to obtain the divine and moral virtues of piety, meekness, modesty, chastity, humility, compassion, temperance and affability, with their advantages, and how to avoyd the opposite vices. II. The duty of virgins, directing them what they ought to do, and what to avoyd, for gaining all the accomplishments required in that state. With the whole art of love, &c. 3. The whole duty of a wife, 4. The whole duty of a widow, &c. Also choice receipts in physick and chirurgery. With the whole art of cookery, preserving, candying, beautifying, &c. Written by a lady.	Lady, fl. 1701.	1696 (1696)	Wing W2054B; ESTC R221014	59,390	159

undeceived but at the price of many Affronts nay perhaps he may Buy his Experience with the loss of his Life drawing on Quarrels by his ill Manners wherein he finally Perishes and this is no Impossible Suppsition many unhappy Mothers have found to their unutterable Affliction which Deplorable Misfortune a Liberal Education might have prevented Secondly to be Frugal in managing what is your Childrens due is very commendable and must by no means be neglected But in doing it you must not Prejudice them the other way nor indeed Incroach upon any thing that is theirs to advance your self in a Second Marriage or to maintain your own State and Grandure for this not only Cancels your pretended Love to your Deceased Husband in violating his Will and the Trust reposed in you but a manifest Defrauding of your own Children which is the highest Injury of all others for it envenoms the Crime and adds Unnaturalness to Deceit Besides 't is a Preposterous sort of guilt Orphans and Widows are in Scripture linked together as Objects of Gods and Good Mens Pity A Widow to injure her Orphans is like that Uncouth Expression Solomon speaks of Prov. 28.3 A Poor Man that Oppresseth the Poor is like a Sweeping Rain that Leaveth no Food Consider then Seriously in thus proceeding that Injustice of any sort is a grievous Sin Secondly When it is Complicated with Treachery also Thirdly That of all Trusts those Intrusted by the Dead have ever been Esteemed and the Violation of them accounted in a manner Sacriligious and if any Widow can find any allay to these by the two remaining circumstances That it is the Trust of a Husband and the Interest of a Child I shall acknowledge her a very Subtle Casuist but I think it is beyond her Skill by Rules Divine or Moral Having only hitherto spoke of what you owe to your Deceased Husband I now proceed to what of peculiar Obligation relates to your self God who has placed you in this World to pursue the Interests of a Better directs all the signal Acts of his Providence to that end and intends they should be so Interpreted That every great change that occurs is designed either to call you from a wrong way or to quicken your pace in the right And you may the more conjecture when God takes away the Mate of your Bosome and reduces you to Solitariness he sounds you a Retreat from she Gayeties and Lighter Jollytries of the World that with your closer Mourning you may put on a more retired Temper of Mind a Stricter and Soberer Behaviour not to be cast off with your Vail but to be the constant Adornment of your Widowhood As this State requires a great Sobriety and Degrees of Piety so likewise it brings with it many Advantages and Advances towards them The Apostle tells us 1 Cor. 7.34 She who is Married Caret● for the things of the World how She may Please her Husband But in this State that care is overpast and Heavenly things by the removal of this Screen stand fairer to view You may now decline Martha's Care of Serving and choose Mary's better part Shake off those Cares that Cloggs the Souls with a Hurry of Incumbrances in Domestick affairs and consider of more Refined things that bring true Happiness with them to Joy and Rejoyce the Mind We find God himself retrenches the Wife's Power of Binding her own Soul Numb 30. Her Vows were Insignificant without her Husbands Confirmation but the Widow might Devote herself to what Degree she Pleased Your Piety in this State has no Restraint from any other inconsistent Obligation but may Mount as high as it can Those Hours that were before your Husbands Right seem now to be Devolved on God who Promises To be a Husband to the Widow and a Father to the Fatherless so he is the grand Proprietor of your Time you may now convert the time Spent in former Entertainments of your Husband into Colloquies and Spiritual Entercourses with your Maker So that that Love which was humane may by the changing of its Object acquire a Sublimity being Exalted to that which is Divine and what before was Expended in Gayeties and Necessaries now not requisite may be Improved in Works of Mercy and Charity That so his Corruption you have lost may help you to put on an Incorruption and your Loss of a Temporary Comfort state you in one that is Eternal Whilst your Loyalty Duty and Conjugal Affection becomes the External Work and happniess of Angels the Ardour of Cherubims and the Joy of Saints in Endless Glory And having thus shewed what relates to Education and a prospect of Happiness here and hereafter I now proceed to Treat of such things as may be useful tho' some what in a lower degree and may be advantageous to you in Houshold Affaires CHAP. V. I hysical Waters and Cordial Drinks conducing to a Healthful Constitution from the Choicest and Approved Receipts of the most Eminent Persons of this and former Ages With their Proper Virtus how they ought to be taken and the Distempers they are Good in c. Apoplectick Water TAke four pound of Black-Cherries bruise and take away the Stones add of the roots of Valerian and Fartshorn shaved each three ounces Rosemary Lavender and Sage each a handful Cloves and Mace beaten fine each an ounce Saffron 〈◊〉 drams flowers of the Lilly of the Valley a handful bruise these and mix them well together and distil'd drink a quarter of an ounce fasting in any convenient liquor as warm Ale Thea Coffee Wine c. and it will help the Apoplexie Pa●ie or any destempers proceeding from the Affliction of the Brain Aqua Mirabilis to make Take an ounce of the best Cinamon Nutmeg and Citron peel each six drams Gallingal Cubebs Cloves and Mace each two drams bruise them grosly and infuse them in a gallon of White-wine and a quart of spirit of Wine and so distil them this taken half an ounce et a time fortifies the Heart resists contagious Airs Plague or Pestilence Feaver or any venemous Infections Elixir Salutis Lake four ounces of Senna Elicampain roots and Guaicum two ounces Anniseeds Carraway and Coriander seeds each the like quantity Raisins of the Sun stoned half a pound Liquorice sliced two ounces Rheuburb thinly sliced half an ounce bruise and infuse them in Brandy or a spirit drawn from Fruit Malt and Molosses five or six days then draw off the liquid part and put it up in bottles closely Corked This is excellent in the Chollick or other pains in the Belly for cleansing the Stomach and causing a good digestion helps in all cold diseases and brings away the Gravil in the Kidneys or Bladder Antinepretick Water Take of clarefied Honey half a pound Venice Turpentine two ounces Nepretick wood and Rest-harrow roots of each an ounce and a half Mastick Galingal Cloves Cinamon Cubebs Mace of each half a● ounce wood of Aloes an ounce bruise them grosly and let them infuse in