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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

sure by Prayer Self-examination Works of Mercy and Charity to prepare your selves for the reception of that Adorable Mystery Let not Anger nor Passion prevail over you but be Humble and Meek and so shall you prosper in all your ways You shall have a goodly heritage and your line shall fall happily in a fair Land For the Lord shall be your Portion and your exceeding great Reward He will give you the Blessings of the Right Hand and of the Left Protect and keep you safe in this life and in the next make you to Dwell with him in Eternal Glory When on the contrary Impiety is that which Poisons the Sweets of Life Taints you Names and Reputations and Wounds your Souls Lays perpetual Snares and Stumbling-blocks in your way to make you fall into various mischiefs But that which is most grievous to be born it makes God your Enemy in the end whose Anger is sharper than a two Edged Sword In brief Sin is a Monster that came into the World by the disobedience of our first parents and brought with it a world of woes and though the Devil who is its Parent labours by his Agents very industriously to cover its Deformities under borrowed names and specious pretences yet to the Eyes of the Vertuous it is so Ugly and Deformed that it is to be loothed and abhored for besides the innumerable mischiefs it compasses here to unthinking Souls as it at its first enterance brought our Temporal Death along with it so if you hug it in your Bosom and carry it out of the world with you it will lead you into Eternal Death and Damnation Therefore as it is an Enemy to God be you always at enmity with it so that at last you may arive at the end of Glory by all the ways of Grace Prudence and Religions Meekness is not only Recommended to all as a Christian Vertue but particularly to Women as a peculiar Accomplishment of the Sex And St. Peter after the mentioning of all exquisite and costly Deckings of Art commends to you above all this one Ornament of a Meek and Quiet Spirit with this eminent attestation That it is in the sight of God of great Price And therefore to all that will not enter into Dispute with God and Contest his Judgment it must be so But although Meekness be in it self an entire single Virtue yet it is Diversified according to the several Faculties of the Soul over which it has Influence so that there is the Meekness of Vnderstanding a Meekness of the Will and a Meekness of the Affections all of which concur to make up a meek and quiet Spirit And of these in their Order 1. The Meekness of the Vnderstanding consists in a pliableness to Conviction owning our Faults and unworthyness without repining 2. The Meekness of the Will lies in its subordination and submission to a more supream Authority which is Divine things is The Will of God and in Natural and Morral Reason and in Human constitutions the Command of Superiours And so long as the Will Governs it self by these in their respective orders it transgresses not the Meekness required of it 3. The Meekness of the Affections consists in reducing the Passions to a Calm Temper not suffering them to make uproars within to disturb ones self nor without to disquiet others and to this Regulation Meekness is generally Subservant Its Opposites are then to be computed Threefold viz. 1. Conceitedness That is a Fancy that all you do is stamp'd as Standard and passes Current in your own Conceit how bad soever your Actions appears in the Eyes of others or are really so in themselves being your own Judg without hearkning to convincing Reasons or just Reproof 2. Obstinancy in Resisting the motions of Gods Holy Spirit or hearkning to the wholesome Advice and Directions of those he has set over you to watch for your Soul And in the Second Branch in Resisting the Powers he has Ordained and put in Authority over you spurning against Reason and Justice 3. Inordinate Passions troublesome to your selves and others as Revenge Fury c. But that you may Avoid these hear what our Saviour says viz. Blessed are the Meek in Spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven 1. Modesty is properly termed The Science of Decent Motion as being a guider and regulater of all decent and comly Carriage and Behaviour Checking and con●●ouling Rudeness and any thing tending to Confidence and unmannerliness and is held the great Civilizer of Conversation Ballancing the Mind with humble and sober thoughts of your Selves and Ordering every part of the outward frame in the most winning and obliging manner 2. It appears in the Face in calm and comly Looks where it makes due impressions so that it seems from thence to have Acquired the Name of Shame-facedness And truly what ever the Modern Opinion of some may be there is nothing adds a greater Lustre to Feminine Beauty 3. Modesty confines it self not to the Face only for there it may in some sense be said to be in Shadow and Effigie but ●preads it self in life Motion and Words banishing all Indecency and Rudeness all Insolent Vauntings and Supercilious Dains or what else may render our Sex troublesome or uneasie to Company or Conversation It Refines and Tunes the Language Modulates the Tone and Accents not admitting the Intrusion of unhansom earnest or Loud Discourse So that the Modest Tongues is like the imaginable Musick of the Spheres sweet and charming but not to be heard at distance 4. As Modesty prescribes the manner so it also does the measure of Speaking It restrains all excessive Talkativeness for that indeed is one of the greatest assumings imaginable and so rude an imposing on Company that there can scarce be a greater Indecency in Conversation Modesty therefore ought if you have respect to Vertue and a good Name to appear in it's highest elevation Your Looks your Speech and the course of your whole Behaviour should own an humble distrust of your selves rather being willing to learn and observe than to dictate and prescribe unless upon very Emergent occasions and that to those that are rambling in the Paths of loosness And therefore as you value your Reputation keep up to the strictness of this Vertue least when you conceive it not amiss in trivial matters to launch beyond the bounds of Modesty you are violently carry'd too far to Retreat before you are aware as I shall shew you in the contrary on this Excellent Adornment of our Sex Immodesty is held even in Heathen Nations a great Reproach and Scandal especially where it is found in Women and St. Paul who spoke by an excellent Spirit Commands That Women Adorn themselves in Modest Apparrel with Shamefacedness and Sobriety not with Broidered Hair or Gold or Pearl or costly Array but which becometh Women professing Godliness with Gods Works 1. Tim. 2.9 So that when those that are not well affected to Modesty have strained their Art to

two quarts of rectified Spirits and so distill them this is excellent good against the Stone or Gravel eases pains of the Cholick and all other pains of the Bowels Elixir Proprietatis Take Alexandrian Myrrh Aloes Succotrine and Saffron of each two ounces bruise them very fine put them into a gallon of White-wine and a quart of rectified Spirits let them infuse eight days then distill them in a moderately heated Sand-hath and so preserve the Spirit mixing amongst when taken some of the volatile spirit of Hartshorn viz. six drops to a quarter of an ounce This purifies the Blood and is exceeding good against the Sourvey and all Distempers proceeding from corrupt humour if it prove too hot you may take it in Wine or other palatable Liquors Dr. Butler 's Ale Take Sarsaparilla two ounces Polypody of the Oak and Sena each four ounces Licoris two ounces Carriway seeks and Anniseed each an ounce Agrimony and Maiden-hair of each a pugil or little handful Scurvy-grass leaves and stalks a quarter of a peck bruise them grosly together and put them into a thin Canvas bag into six gallons of New Ale and at three days end draw it off and fine it in Bottle This purges the Urin and gentle breathing Sweats it expels Scorbutick humours and helps much in the Dropsie and all watery diseases c. Purl-Royal Take two ounces of Coriander seeds a handful of stript Roman Wormwood an ounce of Senna a little handful of Balm an ounce of Horse-Raddish-root thinly sliced bruise these and infuse them in two gallons of White-wine or Rhenish-wine six days take away the liquid part drink a small glass full in as much other Wine It fortifies the Heart cleanses the Stomach and very much helpeth Digestion These ingredients may likewise be infused in Ale or any other Liquor in Ale it is called Common Garden-Purl a liquor very much esteemed in London Spirit of Scurvey-Grass Take the bark of the root of an Ash-tree the root of Fraxinel Capers and Tamarisk each an ounce Oak Polypode two ounces wild Radish 3 ounces Scurvygrass-leaves one pound Sorrel Water-cresses Brook-lime and spleenwort three handfuls each Bayberries and Berries of Juniper of each half an ounce a handful of the tops of the lesser Centaury the seeds of Mustard Citron Cardus each half an ounce Cinamon Cloves Ginger and Nutmeg each three drams bruise these and digest them in a warm Sand-bath in a gallon of Rhenish-wine and three pints of true Brandy three days then distill them in an Alimbeck Twenty drops in any Liquor is a sufficient dose in case of the Scurvey shortness of Breath pricking Pains foulness of the Lungs Yellowness of the Teeth easing pains of the Belly killing Worms in Children and for it 's rare Virtues is called The Golden Spirit of Scurvey-Grass Pligue Water Take Balm Mint Rhue Cardus and the green husks of Walnuts or Walnut-leaves of each a good handful bruise them and infuse them 24 hours in a gallon of Canary add bruised Mace and Cinamon each half an ounce distill them and drink an ounce of the Water fasting It resists all Pestilential Airs Infectious or Nauseous Vapours that offend Nature is good in Surfeits Pains of the Head or Ascending Vapours that occasion Dizziness the Megrim c. Surfeit-Water Cut off the bottoms of Poppy-flowers infuse two large handfuls in two quarts of Brandy 24 hours wring them out and put in as many fresh ones till the Brandy has the Red Tincture of them then slice in Nutmeg Ginger and Cinamon each a quarter of an ounce press out the liquid part drop in a few drops of Oyl of Cloves and sweeten it with Loaf Sugar keep it close stop'd and take an ounce at a time It 's a great Healer of the Stomach gives Rest cause Sweat and Rarifies the whole Mass of Blood Vsquebaugh Take three gallons of neat Brandy or good rectified Spirit Spanish juce of Liquorice six ounces Raisins of the sun ston'd a quarter of a Pound sliced Dates the Stones taken out the like quantity the tops of Thyme and Balm each a little handful the tops of Rosemary and Rosemary flowers two ounces each Mace Cinamon Coriander-seed and Anniseed grosly bruised each half an ounce scent it with Orange or Citron water or the flowers or peels of either let this Mass infuse 5 or 6 days in a Glass or Earthen Vessel put in six ounces of white Sugar-candy beaten in fine powder then draw or pour off the liquid part as fine as may be and what remains will make a weaker sort by putting other spirits to it This is a pleasant Liquor a great friend to the Lungs preventing cold distillations and bringing away Phlegm or Rheum it removes obstructions in the Liver helps shortness of Breach and sweetens it it ●hears the Spirits and taken fasting prevents the bad effects of evil Airs about three spoonfuls at a time is a sufficient Dose Dr. Stephen 's great Cordial Water Take a Gallon of Claret Canary or Rhenish Wine Gallingal Grains of Paradice Cinnamon Nutmegs Ginger Anniseeds and sweet Fennel-seeds of each three drams Mint the leaves of Red Roses Sage Pellitory of the Wall the tops of Rosemary Thyme Wild Marjorum Chamomile and the tops of Lavender-cotton shred the Herbs and grosly bruise the Spices infuse them the space of two days and distil them in an Alimbeck This mainly resists Infectious Airs is an Antidote against the Plague and very advantagious And ounce of it taken just before the coming of a cold fit of an Ague and if it appear too hot you may palliate it with cooling Liquors it easies mightily likewise pains in the Bowels and is good taken by those that are apprehensive or fearful of the Small pox when they go abroad in times when its rife Metheglin White Take sweet Marjorum Violet Strawberry leaves and flowers the tops of Thyme Rosemary Burrage and Agrimony of each a little handful the seeds of Coriander Carriway and sweet Fennel each half an ounce a quarter of an ounce of beaten Mace boil them grosly bruised in eight gallons of Spring-water gently about an hour scumming straining them being strained put into the liquor as much fine Honey as will make it bear an Egg so that some part of it may appear above the liquid boil it again as long as any scum will rise when it is cool put it up into a Vessel with about a pint of Ale Yeast let it work three days then hang five days a bag of Spice in it draw it off and bottle it up Mead. Take Sweet-Briar rosemary and Thyme Agrimony Bettony and Eyebright the tops of Scabious each a pugil or as much as may be lightly held between the Fore-finger and thumb put them in Spring-water and lay a Stone or some heavy cover to sink them infuse them 48 hours then take them out and boil them in another water till the water be coloured with them very high let them stand off the fire a day and a

the highest pitch an Innocent Modesty and native Simplicity of Looks will Eclipse their Imaginary Splendor and Triumph over their Artificial Beauties And indeed if a Woman be Adorned with all the Embellishments of Art and care of Nature to boot yet if Boldness Scorn and haughty Looks be imprinted in her Face They blot out all the Lines of Comeliness and like a dark Cloud over the Sun shade the view of all that was otherwise Amiable and renders its blackness but the more observable by being placed nearer somewhat that was apt to attract the Eyes and leave a strain on their Names and Reputations burning desires and impatient waitings Tediousness Delay Sufferance of Affronts and Amasement of Discovery Chastity above all is so essential and Natural to our Sex that every declination from it is a proportionable receding from Whomanhood but the total abandoning it ranks you among Bruits and sets you as far beneath those as anquired vileness is below a native An Unchast Woman is look'd upon as a kind of a Monster a thing devided and distorted from its proper form espicially by Chast and Vertuous Persons And I dare Appeal to the forwardest of them that thus go astray and in dishonouring themselves give occasion of Scandal to our Sex whether at first they could not with more ease have kept their Virtue than have lost it Certainly such are the Horrors and Shame that preceeds those first Guilts that they must as it may be termed commit a Rape upon themselves force their own reluctancy and aversions before they can become willing Prostitutes to others this their Seducers seem wellenough to understand and upon that score are at the pains of so many preparitive Courtings and expence of presents as if this was so uncouth a Crime that there were no hopes t●●●●troduce it but by a Confederacy of some more familiar Vices as Pride or Covetousness Therefore have a care of the Snares 2. Know you not saith St. Paul That your Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost 〈◊〉 this be so will you defile it when God himself threatens to destroy you if you do But I shall conclude this Section Briefly in the words of St. Gregory Vncleanness says he is the Parent of these Monsters viz. Blindness of Mind Inconsideration Precipitancy or Giddiness in Actions Self Love Harred of God Love of present Pleasures a dispight or dispaire of the Joys of Religion here and of Heaven hereafter Whereas a Pure Mind in a Chast Body is the Mother of Wisdom and Deliberation Sober Councils and Ingenious Actions Open Deportment and Sweet Carriage Sincere Principles and Vnprejudiced Vnderstanding Love of God and Self Denial Peace and Confidence Holy Prayers and Spiritual Comforts a Pleasure of Spirit infinitely greater than the Foolish and Beastly Pleasures of Vnchastity And therefore to overcome it is certainly the greatest Pleasure for indeed no Victory is greater than that which is gotten over Lustful Inclinations Humility is a great Ornament to your Sex and the Graces of it are Exercised by the following Rules 1. Think not your selves better for any thing that happens to you from without for though you may have many Gifts bestowed upon you better than others yet consider you are a Mortal Creature wholly relying as well as others upon Gods Protection Mercy and Providence and have nothing to commend you to your self but that you have a little time to imploy in his Service who brought you into the World and in whose hands are all your Riches and Honours and even your Breath of Life Who can if he pleases take from you what he has given and bestow it on the Poorest and Meanest Person on Earth However Humility consists not in Railing against your self or in going in base Apparel walking softly or submissively but in a hearty mean Opinion of your selves being content to want Praise or outward Applause not troubled or angry when you are slighted or undervalued Never be ashamed of your Birth or Parents or Calling for the Meanness or Poverty of any of them but speak as readily and indifferently of Meanness as you would do of Greatness Primislaus King of Bohemia was raised by the Queen casting her Affections accidentially on him as she passed by his Field from the Plough to the Throne yet was so humble That he kept his country Shoes always by him to put him in mind of his lowly condition And King Agathoeles Furniture of his Table demonstrated that he was raised from a Potter to be King of Sicily But why need I insist upon these When the King of Kings propounded himself to Imitable by his Disciples so Signally in nothing as in the Twin Sisters viz. Mee●ness and Humility Learn says he of me for I am Meek and Humble and you shall find Rest to your Souls 2. Never speak any thing directly tending to your own Praise that is on purpose to be Commended and when you have said or done any thing for which you cannot avoid receiving Praise take it indifferently and then disrobing your self of it return it to God Reflecting upon him as the Giver of the Gift or the blesser of the Action And give him thanks for making you an Instrument of his glory or the Benefit of others Secure a good Name to your selves by living Virtuously and Humbly but let it be Nurst abroad and not in your own Bosom Let your Faces like Moses shine to others but make no looking-Glass for your selves use no Stratagem or devices to get praise nor seek for any reward here but walking uprightly and humbly with God and those you Converse with here you shall one day be exalted to Heaven when the Proud and haughty shall sink in the depth of Misery Pride is Opposite to humility as Light is to Darkness and indeed in the last day The latter will lead you to the first and the former those that court it to the last 1. Consider then what such vile Creaturs who are but Dust and Ashes have to be Proud of If of our Bodis those are week and impure subject to Diseases Decays to Die Corrupt in a Grave and turn to Rottenness 2. Is it your Strength you boast or grow proud in In that you are inferiour to many Irrational Creaturs Nay That which makes too many of our Sex Proud and look down with disdain even the conceit of beauty is of no value to make such a swelling in their minds seeing in colour and fragrancy they are Rivalled and out done by various Flowers and when it is most florid and gay a few Agus Fits change it into paleness and Wrinkles of Deformity 3. If Proud of Learning or Parts the first of these in its proper sphere runs contrary to Pride teaching Humility The second Civility and a modest behaviour To be Proud of Riches is yet more Foolish for if you will exalt your self above others because you have more Gold consider at your own rate how much you are inferiour to a Gold Mine

perhaps a Dog or Mon●cy as thought worthy their own Attend●nce This is too much in the extream of the other side and seems beyond the Bowel● of a Motherly Tenderness But as to the former Matter whether Beautiful or Homely make no different in your Maternal Care and Affection 〈◊〉 cause they proceed from you and it is 〈◊〉 in the power of the Infant to Form it Self but it is formed in the Womb by t●● wonderful working of Almighty God a●● Shaped as he pleases And many times 〈◊〉 mend the Defect a Distorted Body Rump●● in the cells of Nature is Endowed with●● Beautiful Soul when that Cast in a Fai●● Mould to outward appearance is an Id●● or like a Picture only representing a P●● portion and Statute to the Eye witho●● Intellectual Faculties to make it what it R●● presents In this case a Mother that pretends● Virtue must make no difference but div● her Affections equally yet so that th● may be Moderate and not infringe 〈◊〉 that Love she owes her Maker Wh● the acts of the Soul are considred th● must be no Competitor in Affection with the ●mighty but he must be all all as to Divine Love for he is the o● unlimited Object of it and if you ex●● in this you hurt your self and bring on his Wrath in Punishment here and if not Repented of perhaps Eternally hereafter Secondly as I have already hinted you hurt your Children in not bringing them up in due Obedience and Respect towards you whereas when you generally Dote upon all or more particularly on one it cannot be brought to pass for then through want of that strict Government which in many cases is required and an over Indulgence will not permit you to excerise your self nor you others to do it they will without a wonderful Providence grow Stubborn and headstrong as they grow in years The only Justifiable ground of partiality if you single out any of the number of your Children as a Favourite must be Virtue and this must only extend top provoke a Virtuous Emulation in the rest and then you must so manage it as to evidence it is no inequality in your own inclination but meerly the force of the others Deserts not the Person of your Child but the Goodness that Biasses you and when Virtue is known to be the only Ingratiating Quality the rest may labour perhaps to become yours and Gods Favorites Therefore shew them early an Example of Piety in your own Life and Conversation And in the Decorum o● your Family keep them out of the hearing of Vain Words or any thing that may ten● to Vitiate their tender Years by which they are too apt to take deeply the first impression of Words or Actions not by time so easily Obliterated as may be imagined And in matters of the Virtuous Education of your children you are no● only Accountable to your Self but God He seems to say to you as King Pharoabs Daughter did to the Mother o● Moses Take this Child and Nurse it for m● The end for which he gives them is That they should be brought up in his Fear that they may Live Grow up and Dey in his Favour And then you may have the Comfort of meeting them again in an endless Eternity of Blessedness nevermore t● be Separated And this will certainly add to those Joys that in themselves are very Excellent That you have Brought forth an● Trained up Children to Live and Reign wit● Christ in his Kingdom of Glory The best way of approving your Love towards them is by the Duty of Care Without this all the most Passionate Raptures of Kindness are but an Airy Apparition a Fantastical Scene and will no more advantage a Child than the Picture of Food will Nourisn it Nor is this Care a Temporary Momentary Duty but it must be taken through the several Stages of Infancy Childhood and Youth The first of these is a season only for those Cares that concern the Bodies of your Children Providing for their careful Attendance and all other things conducing to Strengthen their Constitutions laying a foundation for future Health and Vigour which is your Interest not only upon the Body but upon an Intelectual account The good Temprature of the Body being a great Aid towardss the free operation of the Mind But this Health is not always the consequent of a Nice Breeding for that many times overthrows it when Inuring them to Moderate Hardships seldom fails of giving a Strong ad Healthful Constitution Too much Feeding and Delicacies breed Humours by reason of a weak Digestion to which most children in their Infancy are subject and the superabundance of Humours breeding Diseases which often become Habitual or too sadly end in an Early Death when moderate Feeding and exposing them to the fresh Air abroad and not Mewing or as it were Stifling them in a Nursery gives them strength and Refreshment for when Nature is not over-loaded she makes a due Digestion which turns to Sweet and wholsome Blood and kindly Humours but being over-loaded or oppressed she is in a manner Suffocated and cannot exercise her Function to proper advantages And as for a free breathing Air refin'd from Damps and Groceness it rarifies the Lungs and Vital Spirits and is the great refresher of Life But of these I shall Speak more when I come to Treat of Ordering Children as to their Health in Diet and Physical matters Secondly when they are past Infancy if you Dote so as to Hoodwink you self because you will not See their Faults or Manacle your Hands that you cannot Chastise them then it will be Imputed your Fault if their Vices grow up with them and you will find little comfort of them in the end tho' you promise your self never so much in lieu of your kindness towards them For when the Mothers Affections are Vnbridled the Childs will be so too The wise Man in this case gives you better advice viz. Bow down the Neck of a Child from its Youth that is bring it up to strict rules of Virtue and put a Bridle on its Stubborn Iuclinations and so when it grows up it will Bless you not only as its Parent but Preserver and Secure to it the future Happiness of Life For if you permit them to run on in their own Vain Devices in hopes time may alter it by making them see their Folly and grow Wiser you will be too often miserably mistaken for as their Joynts knit and gather strength so do their Ill Habits till at last they are Confirmed in an Obstinacy and by that means you set them in a perfect opposition to the Pattern they should Imitate For as Christ's Childhood increased in Wisdom and the Divine Favour Luke 2. so will theirs in all those Provoking Follies which may Avert both the Love of God and Man And then alas what recompence can the little Blandishments and Caresses of a Mother make her Children for such important and inestimable Mischief So that