-as we may, I trust, without prefumption, render, and fupply the ellipse, John. 10, 30. in perfect unifon alfo, with genuine PHILOSOPHY:

Ο φιλά, αλλά αυτά

"The Friend-another Self.”

ARISTOTLE.

So finely paraphrased by MOSES; Deut. 13, 6.

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"A Friend, as thine own Soul."

And fo elegantly, by the profound fon of SIRACH.

φιλα τις Θ, σκεπη κραταια

Ecclus. 6, 14.

«Ο δε ευρων αυτον έυρεν θησαυρον

Φίλε πις8 8κ εσιν ανταλλαγμα

Και εκ εσιν ςαθμό της καλλώνης αυτε.
Φιλά τις α, φαρμακον ζωής

Και οι φοβέμενοι Κυριον ευρησεσιν αυτον

"A faithful friend is a strong shield,
Whoever finds him, finds a treasure.

A faithful friend, nothing can countervail,
And there is no standard of his excellence.
A faithful friend is a medicine of life,

And they that fear THE LORD shall find him—”

-ONE at leaft-without fail

THE

THE FRIEND" who laid down his life for his Friends”.
That where HE is, there, may They be alfo❞—

With "an innumerable company of Angels; and

The general affembly and congregation of the First Born,
Registered in Heaven; and GOD, the Judge of all;
And Spirits of Juft Men, perfected [by fufferings];
And JESUS, Mediator of a New and better Covenant."-

Compare in the original paffages, John 15, 13, & 14, 2, Heb. 12, 22.

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How" idle" then is the "affertion" (mua apyou, Mat. 12, 36) of Critic Moles, that "THE GOSPEL "does not inculcate FRIENDSHIP"!!

Virtuous friends therefore, embarked in the fame "labour of love," are encouraged "to rejoice in hope" of virtuous fociety, renewed and extended upon a scale of inconceiveable grandeur and delight, beyond the grave.

And though "we three" fhall never

"meet" on Earth;

Our kindred fouls will furely join in Heaven,

READER, farewell, and become "united" in "our Confpiracy"-a confpiracy not founded in

wicked

wicked or ignoble views, but-" without diffimula

«tion"

"Inftantly to embrace, and greatly to emancipate."

by initiating you into

Rt. Hon. MR. GRATTAN,

THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY.

For WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD is,

THERE (and there only) IS LIBERTY."

THEY bawl for FREEDOM in their fenfeless mood,
But ftill revolt, when TRUTH would fet them free;
LICENCE they mean, when they cry LIBERTY~
For who loves THAT, mußt be first wISE and GOOD.

MILTON,

Si quid novifti ređìus istis,

Candidus imperti: Si non, his utere mecum :

"If you know TRANSLATIONS more corred than these,

Candidly communicate:-If not, use MINE :—

-Which should be carefully read and conned,

BY EVERY STUDENT AND THE PUBLIC."

OCTAVIUS JAN.

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