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 Mercy is as conpicuous as his Jutice, and engages our Love and Praie to the gracicusgracious [sic] Father, and our Adoration and Reverence to the awful Judge!

Behold this Cure in its true Light, and it will appear in its End and Deign to have been a Bleing.

The very Eence of Sin is Diobedience, and the firt Peron who diobeyed God upon Earth, was the Woman: Since therefore he would not ubmit to the Law of her Creator, he was put in Subjection to her Equal.

The Chritian Religion as a Conequence of Chrit's Coming, was foretold at the Time of the Cure: Which as it is a elf-denying Scheme, o that Condition which has the mot frequent Opportunities of practiing Self-denial in its ordinary Occurrences, will be ultimately the mot advantagious. The mot indifferent Action which a Woman does at the Command of her Huband, from a Sene that God has commanded her to obey him, becomes an Act of Religion, and as uch, is rewardable to all Eternity. 'Tis frequently a complicated Act of Virtue; 'tis always Obedience, which includes Humility; and 'tis many Times elf denial, and a Conquet over her own Paions. Thus