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 love Mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"

As the Woman's Sin was in the undue Gratification of her Will, in her Will hall he be punihed: She hall depend upon her Huband in all Matters of Pleaure, Diverion, and Delight: Her Deires hould be circumcribed by his, whom he hould reverence in Acquiecence to divine Authority: He hould have the upreme Command in his Family, and the hould act in Subordination to him.

This I humbly apprehend to be the Scripture Extent and Meaning of the Cure. And not that God precluded himelf from any farther Authority over the Woman; by delivering her o far into the Power of her Huband, as that he might rob and murder at his Command.

Neither did he preclude the Woman from doing any Good, except he had her Huband's Command or Permiion.

He orders all Parents to provide for their Children according to their Abilities.

But our Laws give an Huband the Power to uperede that Command, by allowing him to take all things from his Wife, and then to prevent her obtaining any thing more, by her Labour or Ingenuity. Her intellectual and peronal Abilities eem to be her own