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 Q Can I expect to find a perſon more deſirable, or one more likely to be a happy companion and help meet?

A She may prove ſo, to a perſon who can be comformable to ſay with her in Babylon, but as I am bound to another country, I may find bitterneſs in that which would appear happineſs to another.

Q. But have not reaſon to hope, that a perſon of her refined qualities may be endued with ſuch bleſſings as to make a ſuitable companion for me in my journey?

A. A perſon may be accompliſhed with all the excellencies of Babylon, to as to appear ſuperior to many of the citizens, but if theſe be only the accompliſhments of the own country, they can only make a gradual difference between them and the moſt abject peaſant, whereas there is a ſpecific difference between a Babylonian and an Iſraelite.

Q. But is it not very cenſorious, to look upon ſuch a worthy perſon as no better than than a mere Babylonian?

A. Inaſmuch as the difference is ſo great that a Babylonian cannot become a ſubject of the king of Iſrael unleſs he be formed a new we cannot eſteem then any other, f long as there does not appear the ſpecify features of the ſelect Nation; the idiom of their language, the men of their behaviour