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ticular Reſpect to the Will, in order to enforce its Concurrence with the Underſtanding in our bounden Duty, and Service. "His Servants ye are, whom ye yield your ſelves to obey."
The Underſtanding recogniſes God's Title, but the Will ſecures his Poſſeſſions.
Upon this View, I believe it will appear agreeable to God's Wiſdom that, That Sex which gave the firſt Proof of a diſobedient Will, ſhould have an additional Reſtraint upon it, to diſappoint and over-rule it, that for the Future it might be leſs able to contend with the Underſtanding, and the Law of God.
It is ſtill a farther Teſtimony of God's Wiſdom to inveſt Man with this reſtraining Authority, the more frequently to remind even him, of God's Indignation againſt thoſe who ſhould preſume to diſobey his poſitive Commands, by making him the Executor of his Reſentment upon it: Who tho' a Delinquent himſelf, yet his Sin admitted of greater Alleviations than the Woman's, and conſequently had a milder Puniſhment: And her Puniſhment great as it was, if humbly ſubmitted to, would naturally produce the moſt laſting Bleſſings.
If then it is agreeable to Juſtice, Mercy and Wiſdom, it is eſtabliſhed upon ſuch
