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the moſt eminent Degree; with this peculiar Addition, that the Impunity with which he might Sin againſt his Wife, is with him the ſtrongeſt Reaſon why he never will do it.
Tho' there are Good Huſbands yet have a Care of Bad: With this laſt piece of Advice I ſhall leave the unmarried Women.
I come now to conſider one Objection, which ſtill remains againſt all I can ſay, and which I am ſenſible no Art or Eloquence, can ever obviate, namely, my Sex. Cuſtom and Education has dwindled us into very Trifles! ſuch meer Inſignificants! that it may be thought Preſumption and Folly in one of us, to preſume to plead our own Cauſe, even tho' it ſhould appear to be upon the moſt juſtifiable Pretenſions.
Notwithſtanding this diſcouraging Reflection, I ſhall
Firſt, Proceed to the Sentiments of two ſpeculative Authors, who have conſidered human Nature abſtracted from all external Laws, and ſee in what Light they place us.
Secondly, I ſhall refer my ſelf to the Judgment of a moſt judicious Reaſoner upon Revelation.
Thirdly, I ſhall make ſome Obſervations
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