TO

A YOUNG LADY,

IN WHICH

THE DUTIES AND CHARACTER OF WOMEN

ARE CONSIDERED,

CHIEFLY WITH

A REFERENCE TO PREVAILING OPINIONS,

BY MRS WEST,
AUTHOR OF LETTERS TO A YOUNG MAN, &c.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain ; but a

woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised.

Prov, xxxi, 30.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.
THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

LETTERS,

&c. &c. &c.

LETTER VI.

Further Observations on the Calvinistic

Controversy.

MY DEAR MISS M

In justice to our opponents, we must now acknowledge, that the doctrines of Calvin, arrayed in all their original horrors, are too sombrous for the adoption of all who arrange themselves under his distinguishing banner. A more limited (and we must add indistinct) idea of predestination is entertained by many who, in the present

times,

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