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 and didain Religion, Virtue, and Sene, which are Qualities, in their Nature, of much higher Perfection, becaue an Elegance of Peron only is wanting; this is urely inconitent either with a wie Man, or a good Chritian. And it is, perhaps, being too charitable to conclude that uch Perons mean any thing more by their Marriage, than to pleae their carnal Appetites, for the Satisfaction of which we are taught it was not ordained.

‘In the next Place, with repect to Fortune. Worldly Prudence perhaps exacts ome Conideration on this Head; nor will I abolutely and altogether condemn it. As the World is contituted, the Demands of a married State, and the Care of Poterity, require ome little Regard to what we call Circumtances. Yet this Proviion is greatly encreaed beyond what is really neceary, by Folly and Vanity, which create abundantly more Wants than Nature. Equipage for the Wife, and large Fortunes for the Children, are by Cutom enrolled in the Lit of Necearies; and, to procure thee, every thing truly olid and weet, and virtuous, and religious, are neglected and overlooked.