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 more to Babylon than Canaan; ſhe had never been convinced of the miſery and approaching her native country, no acquainted with the pleaſures and deli was the land which he was ſeeking after, had any deſire to the way, but his ſtrange inclination simulated him to reaſon every thing in the moſt advantageous and to put the beſt conſtructions upon circumſtance: as thus, that her complaint was ſuch, that ſhe would be no hind or moleſtation to him; that, by his exit he might engage her mind to that which had no inclination to at preſent; that very hard to be prohibited from one who all other respects, appeared ſo deſire and that, probably he might never companion con pleat in every point. It he perſiſted in theſe kinds of reaſons until he had almoſt ſtupified his ſenſes ſtill, could not free himſelf from convince and dreadful apprehenions of the taking ſo indirect a ſtep, and the incomptences which would attend it, until at a reſolute paſſion prevailed ſo far, the eyes were darkened that he ſcarce pen the day from the right and during the inſtruction of his ſenſes, he went one evening after the ſun was gone down, and hands with this Babylonian; but when the ſun aroſe in the morning, and he was a