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Study patience, practise humility ', and let re- 

 pentance be our daily exercise ; since these with 

 other vertues, are duties incumbent. Then may we 

 sing hallelujahs at an angelical pitch ; and that's 

 a strain above the worlds Ela. These, and such 

 like divine impressions, we ought to imprint on our 

 immortal minds, when with impatiency we pursue 

 our exercise, either to the river, or solitary lough. 

 For the taper burns, and the thread of life (be- 

 cause lapd up in this fine tiffany web of mortali- 

 ty] like a meteor terminates sometimes in a blaze : 

 Too late then to confer with reason, or think of 

 religion. Sofarewel, and be happy in the rules of 

 friendship ; but happier to live in the amiable 

 arms of vertue, ever honoured, and admired, by 

 thy friend, 



PHILANTHROPUS. 



