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something or a somebody whose "office" +
+ p. 41
this is; and
that is Reason: and Reason can not discover it
after all. How should she? "she is "frail,"+ she is
"imperfect" +, and "she is "blind": + as such she man she is the object
of "compassion" + to "providence" +, which not knowing
how sorry it would be for it after it was done; made
him" her so. and has since "benignly interposed" many's the
good time and oft, if possible, which was more
than it knew, to make him her otherwise. And this is
she whom it is necessary "to have recourse to", to apply
this our all-embracing Law "to the particular exigencies"
of the men it's made for; that is to
make it do any thing that is wanted of it.

[Time was, when it was things went otherwise with her: it was
when she had her lodgings in the Pinon of
our first Ancestor. She was his "guide": had had
we have but had her in the same plight that he had we should not now
should then have and of any other. No passion
then to "ruffle" her, no "prejudices" to "cloud her", no
"disease" or "intemperance" to "impair" her: she was
"clear" and "perfect": and so he fell into transgression.
Happy our first Ancestor in such a
guide!

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A pretty picture this here,
of which
if not the only one, is at
least the only

"Every man" now" it seems finds the contrary "of
all this" in his own experience: his reason is corrupt,
and his understanding full of ignorance
and error.

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[+] from whence And now one should think there might
be some hopes of his not
transgressing. A pretty
picture enough of this
our guide; which if not our
only one, is at least the only
one we have to introduce us to any other.

Let our Author meantime answer for himself; and let that satisfy
him: his reason shall be corrupt, since he

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