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Hir Sexe. She considerd that the Way of Life must be as well measur'd by our Feet in a Journey, as by our Eyes in a Mappe, ere we can reach our Heavenly Canaan: & remembred that Moses tho Pisgah's Top, afforded him the full Prospect of the promis'd Land, dy'd yet on this side Jordan. She knew that Knowledge, is but the Requisite of Obedience, not the whole Duty; & was sensible of the Difference, which thousands have sadly found, betwixt <the Knowing something of>[replacing 'studying'] the Art Military, & <the> getting <of>[insertion in line ] that Victory, to which alone the Crowne is promis'd & reserv'd. No: as hir Piety was the Motive of hir Enquirys, so was the Improvement of it the End of hir Discoverys: & hir <obliged> Knowledge gratefully return'd hir Virtue in prægnant Influences, the [ 'much asserted' deleted] Honor hir Virtue did it, in <procuring it so noble excell so ex[???] Persons also a Votary.>[replacing '(first) engaging our Addresses to it'] She look't not on [ 'the Mysterys of' deleted] Divinity, as Common Beholders do on the Pole-Starre['s' at end of word deleted]; because <it is>[replacing 'they are'] much talkt of & twinkles prettily: nor <barely> as Astronomers are wont to gaze upon <it only to contemplate>[replacing 'it, them only to compl take it's their Altitudes & Dimensions.'] [ '(' deleted]in order to the compleating of their Science of thinges Celestiall,[ ')' deleted] but as the Carefull Pilot['s' at end of word deleted], who Eyes <it>[replacing 'them'] to Steare his Course by it. [How unlike to this Practise is that of our degenerous Times, In which, as our Heads [on][tear in page]ly are Baptiz'd, our <Intellectualls alone>[replacing 'Understanding only'] are Christ[ian][tear in page] In which, 'tis <but> the more applauded sort of Persons, that [ '[acquire][unclear]' deleted]