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 9 V. 1! " It is good for a nan not to touch a woman." Do all the Scriptures proceed out of the same mouth? And do they not all speak the same truth? The God of unity will not indite discord: and the God of verity cannot asert falsehood. If good and evil be contraries, how contrary then are these Scriptures ?- Either Moses mistakes God,' or Paul mistakes Moses, about the point of marriage. To which I shall give a double answer. 1. There is a public and a private good. In respect of one man, it may be good not to touch a woman; but in respect of all, so " It "is not good that man should be alone." 2. Moses speaks of the state of men created, Paul of the state of man corrupted : Now, that which by institution was a mercy, by corrup- tion may become a misery; as, pure water is tainted by running through a miry channel, or as the sun-beams receive a tincture by shining through a coloured glass. There is mo print of evil in the world, but sin was the stamp that made it. They that seek nothing but weal in its commission, will find nothing but wo in the conclusion. Which leads me from the solitariness of the condition.” Mao " alone." to the suitableness of the provision, "I will make an help-mate' for him." In which you have two parts: 1. The Agent, " I will make." 2. The Object: "A help." 1. The Agent, " I will make." We can- bot build a house without tools, but the Tri- pity is at liberty. To God's omniscience there is nothing impossible. We work by hands,