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Matrimony.
comfort here, and happineſs hereafter, depends upon it.
Principles of religion ſhould be fixed, and the mind not left to fluctuate in the time of diſtreſs, when it can receive ſuccour from no other quarter. The conviction that every thing is working for our good will ſcarcely produce reſignation, when we are deprived of our deareſt hopes. How they can be ſatisfied, who have not this conviction, I cannot conceive; I rather think they will turn to ſome worldly ſupport, and fall into folly, if not vice. For a little refinement only leads a woman into the wilds of ro-
mance,
