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 gage a tronger Motive to Human Action in her Favour, by convincing Men, that their true Interet directs them to a Puruit of her. For this Purpoe I have hewn, that no Acquiitions of Guilt can compenate the Los of that olid inward Comfort of Mind, which is the ure Companion of Innocence and Virtue; nor can in the leat balance the Evil of that Horror and Anxiety which, in their Room, Guilt introduces into our Booms. And again, that as thee Acquiitions are in themelves generally worthles, o are the Means to attain them not only bae and infamous, but at bet incertain, and always full of Danger. Latly, I have endeavoured trongly to inculcate, that Virtue and Innocence can carce ever