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 prepartions, the more inſtructor inſiſted on the stranger and pernicious conſequences which could attend their having ſuch companions withal told them, the king had appointed to attend them in their journey, whoſe was Self-denial, without whoſe company it would be impoſſible ever to reach orders of Canaan; and that to chooſe danger for a companion, would be ſuch an to him, at the firſt ſetting out, as might a miſunderſtanding all the way. For heart, he told them, that to pretend to to Canaan and to chooſe a Babylonian for a companion was a contradict on; he could not but doubt the ſincerity of hearts for it it was poſſible for a ſinere traveler to chuſe ſuch a companion. He was very certain it could not be ſo as they continued in the right uſe of reaſon; and he muſt diſcharge his conscience in giving them timely admonition obſerved the event of thoſe conſultations found the eldeſt, whoſe name was Theomacus could not be moved by all theſe s, but abſolutely choſe one, who was her ſtranger to the path, nor had any that therein, nor deſire thereto. And he had convenanted with her ſhe had ſo averſe to going along with him, reluctant to purſuing his intended by, that ſhe prevailed upon him to