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  By comparing which with the former, the Reader may poibly correct ome Abue which he hath formerly been guilty of, in the Application of the Word.

HE Infidelity of Molly, which Jones had now dicovered, would, perhaps, have vindicated a much greater Degree of Reentment than he expreed on the Occaion; and if he had abandoned her directly from that Moment, very few, I believe, would have blamed him.

Certain, however, it is, that he aw her in the Light of Compaion; and tho’ his Love to her was not of that Kind which could give him any great Uneaines at her Incontancy, yet was he not a little hocked on reflecting that he had himelf originally corrupted her Innocence; for to this Corruption he imputed all the Vice, into which he now appeared o likely to plunge herelf.