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 meant, when it is aid, that the Subtantive, and the Adjective ought to agree, in Number, Gender, and Cae: As for example, in the Maculine, the Accuative Cae Singular Number, , having a dumb Spirit: In the Feminine Ablative Cae Singular Number, as,, and , with all thy Heart, and with all thy Soul. The Neuter Gender, or that which is indifferent to either Sex, has its proper Terminations, as alo its Adjectives, by which they hew their Relation to it. Participles oberve the ame Rule in agreeing with Subantives.

The third Rule of Concordance, is that which touches the Agreement of an Antecedent Noun, with its Relative Pronoun: For to avoid the tediounes of repeating the ame word, or thing, the ue of Pronouns was firt invented; and this Agreement mut not only be in Number, and in Sex, I might alo ay, in Cae, but in Peron too, as,, Woe be to you Scribes and Phariees, Hypocrites, for ye are like whited Sepulchres; He that weareth by the Temple, weareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it.

When two Subtantives come together, which ignify different things, the latter hall be the Genitive Cae, as,, the Body of Jeus; , the Gopel of God's Kingdom. Sometimes the latter Subtantive is a Dative Cae, intead of a Genitive, as, , we have Abraham to our Father.