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228 A Chritian has till nobler motives to incite her to preerve her chatity and acquire modety, for her body has been called the Temple of the living God; of that God who requires more than modety of mien. His eye earcheth the heart; and let her remember, that if he hopeth to find favour in the ight of purity itelf, her chatity mut be founded on modety and not on worldly prudence; or verily a good reputation will be her only reward; for that awful intercoure, that acred communication, which virtue etablihes between man and his Maker, mut give rie to the wih of being pure as he is pure!

After the foregoing remarks, it is almot uperfluous to add, that I conider all thoe feminine airs of maturity, which ucceed bahfulnes, to which truth is acrificed, to ecure the heart of a huband, or rather to force him to be till a lover when nature would, had he not been interrupted in her operations, have made love give place to friendhip, as immodet. The tendernes which a man will feel for the mother of his children is an excellent ubtitute for the ardour of unatisfied paion; but to prolong that ardour it is indelicate, not to ay immodet, for women to feign an unnatural coldnes of contitution. Women as well as men ought to have the common appetites and paions of their nature, they are only brutal when unchecked by reaon: but the obligation to check them is the duty of mankind, not a exual duty. Nature, in thee repects, may afely be left to herelf; let women only acquire knowledge and humanity, and love will&ensp;