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love Mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"
As the Woman's Sin was in the undue Gratification of her Will, in her Will ſhall ſhe be puniſhed: She ſhall depend upon her Huſband in all Matters of Pleaſure, Diverſion, and Delight: Her Deſires ſhould be circumſcribed by his, whom ſhe ſhould reverence in Acquieſcence to divine Authority: He ſhould have the ſupreme Command in his Family, and the ſhould act in Subordination to him.
This I humbly apprehend to be the Scripture Extent and Meaning of the Curſe. And not that God precluded himſelf from any farther Authority over the Woman; by delivering her ſo far into the Power of her Huſband, as that ſhe might rob and murder at his Command.
Neither did he preclude the Woman from doing any Good, except ſhe had her Huſband's Command or Permiſſion.
He orders all Parents to provide for their Children according to their Abilities.
But our Laws give an Huſband the Power to ſuperſede that Command, by allowing him to take all things from his Wife, and then to prevent her obtaining any thing more, by her Labour or Ingenuity. Her intellectual and perſonal Abilities ſeem to be her
