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tell him all this Story would but lay the Weight heavy upon her self, so she resolved to let it rest where it was, and wait the Issue. And thus she wore out, as I said, above two Years, tho' with many hard Struggles and frequent Reproaches from her Husband, who was extreamly soured in his Temper by it, and did not stick to use her hardly enough about it upon all Occasions.
At last, to her particular satisfaction, and his too, she proved with Child indeed, and that put an End to it all, for it removed the grand suspicion, that she had poisoned or vitiated her Womb, so that she could never conceive, and she still wished to have no Children, which indeed was the reverse of her Case now; for she earnestly desired to be with Child, to put an End to all these Dissatisfactions. And thus ended this melancholy Affair.
From the whole Story, useful Observations may be made very apposite to the Case before us. The wretched Humour of desiring not to be with Child, appears here in its proper light. How direct a Crime it is in its self, is proved from the Office of Matrimony, which is God's holy Ordinance, appointed and instituted by himself for the regular Propagation of the Species.
The Argument against taking Medicines to prevent or destroy Conception, which is the same thing, is very just; since, in the Nature of the Crime, it is as much a real Murther to destroy the one as the other, as it is as much a real Murther to kill a little Boy as a full grown Man.
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