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thee that thou art wifer than the ancients, who have trodden the path before thee!

15. He will tell thee, thine own underflanding is fufficient to condud thee with fafety to the ultimate end for which thou waft cre- ated!

16. But hearken thou not to his delufive words, for thoufands have bf en led aflray by his counfel!

17. Let wifdom have place in thine heart, let her have the diredlion of all thy adtions; and let caution take thee by the hand! then fhalt thou be led with fafety through all the apartments of human blifs on earth, and the hope of thine expeclatlon ihali not peri(h!

18. Thou fnalt defcend with fortitude the declivity of life 1 a pleafmg ferenity fnall play around thine heart at that important moment when a new Hate of exiftence lliail open be- fore thee! then (hall thine eyes behold with tranfport, the reward of thy virtue! (lamped with the feal of eternal truth!