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 Repect to the Will, in order to enforce its Concurrence with the Undertanding in our bounden Duty, and Service. "His Servants ye are, whom ye yield your elves to obey."

The Undertanding recognies God's Title, but the Will ecures his Poeions.

Upon this View, I believe it will appear agreeable to God's Widom that, That Sex which gave the firt Proof of a diobedient Will, hould have an additional Retraint upon it, to diappoint and over-rule it, that for the Future it might be les able to contend with the Undertanding, and the Law of God.

It is till a farther Tetimony of God's Widom to invet Man with this retraining Authority, the more frequently to remind even him, of God's Indignation againt thoe who hould preume to diobey his poitive Commands, by making him the Executor of his Reentment upon it: Who tho' a Delinquent himelf, yet his Sin admitted of greater Alleviations than the Woman's, and conequently had a milder Punihment: And her Punihment great as it was, if humbly ubmitted to, would naturally produce the mot lating Bleings.

If then it is agreeable to Jutice, Mercy and Widom, it is etablihed upon uch Foundations