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Am yet settling Preliminaries; the Work I am upon will have so many Opposers, such Cavillings and Quarrellings, as well at the Subject, as at the Manner of ofof [sic] handling it, that I am obliged to provide my Defences in time against all the Batteries of the Enemy.

I have this to boast of for Encouragement, (viz.) that I know my Argument to be invulnerable; all the Arts of Hell cannot evade the force of it; if there is the least Defect, it must be in the weakness of the Performance. Good Weapons may be rendred useless or insufficient in an unskilful Hand; but as no Man else has ever undertaken it, I must venture. I'll manage it as well as I can.

the former Chapter I have explained the matrimonial Obligation, what I mean by the