i 28 J your Cafe to God, in my Daily Pray- ers, and earnefily to befeech him, that Efau's Hands may not pollute the Blef- fang and Birth-right of Jacob. The fromife you made of a facred and friendly Alliance, I conceive myfelf to have deferved, and even earned at a va/t Expense. But Ihad not matter- ed that, hadyouhill kept your Pelf the Son of the fame Father. From hence- forth I cannot look on myfelf as your Sifter, in refpec`i to our common Father; for Ime, andlhall always, payamuch greater Regard to Nature than Choice, in that Relation: As Imay appeal to God, whom I befeech to recover you into the Path of a fifer and founder Judgment. Your Sifter after the Old-fafhioned Way, as for the New I have nothing to do with it, ELIZABETH. Upon the Whole, 'tis hardly poífible to conceive Circumstances more dif- couraging to a Reformation, than thofe in which Providence, to give her Vir- tues the greater Luftre, placed this re- nowned Queen. Her very Sex, in a Cafe where there was fomuch Difficulty and
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