As we have promifed our Readers, frequently to prefent them with a new Tranflation of fome felect Portion of the Old Teftament, from the Hebrew, we shall begin with the 53d of Ifaiah.

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HO hath been made to rely upon our tidings?

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And the arm of Jehovah, concerning whom it is uncovered?,

2. For like a young twig he fhall grow up before their faces,

Even like a root from a parched foil.

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He hath no form or beauty, that we should re

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gard him,

And hath no appearance, that we should earnestly defire him.

3. He is reproached and forfaken of men;

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A man of forrows and acquainted with infirmity; As (one) hiding (his) face from us.

He was reproached, for we confidered him not. 4. Verily our infirmities he took up,

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And our forrows he carried them.

But we, wretched, confidered him ftricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.

5. But he was repeatedly pierced for our tranfgref

fions,

Was crushed for our iniquities,

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The correction caufing our peace, was upon him,

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And by his wounds we are restored.

6. The whole of us like fheep have strayed, (Each) man his own way hath turned;

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And Jehovah hath caused to light upon
The iniquity of us all.

7. It is exacted, and he is answerable;

But he will not open his mouth.

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Like a lamb to the flaughter, he shall be led,
And as an ewe before her fhearers is dumb,
Thus he will not open his mouth.

8. From civil reftraint, and from judgment, he is taken,

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And of his generation, who fhall meditate deeply?
Because he is cut off from the land of the living,
For the tranfgreffion of my people, the stroke of
death is upon him.

9. And he will appoint with the unjust his sepulchre; But with the wealthy he shall be in his death. Although he had not done wrong,

And deceit is not in his mouth;

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10. Yet it pleaseth Jehovah to crush him with infirmity.

If he shall cause his life to be appointed a propi

tiatory facrifice,

He shall behold a feed, he shall cause their days to be prolonged;

And the delight of Jehovah, shall prosper in his

hand.

11. Of

11. Of the afflictive labour of his life, he fhall behold, He fhall be fatisfied.

With his knowledge he fhall caufe juftification. My fervant, caufing juftification to the multitudes, For their iniquities he fhall bear away.

12. Therefore I will divide for him among the mul titudes,

And with the mighty he fhall divide the prey; Because that he hath uncovered unto death, his life, And with the tranfgreffors he was numbered, And the deviations of multitudes he bare away, And for tranfgreffors he fhall make interceffion.

The figures in the text refer to the marginal notes. Thus, No 1, No fplendour of shape. No. 2, Glory. No. 3, Behold, look at, understand. No. 4, Wounded mind. No. 5, Carried as a burden. No. 6, Confociation, likewife fpots, wounds, bruises, that run into each other. No. 7, Meet. No. 8, Probably it means, that but very few of that generation shall think aright on the sufferings of Chrift. No. 9, Wounds. No. 10, If he will make his life liable to punishment.

T. A. T.

Domestic Affections a true Source of Virtue.

WITH A TALE BY A FARMER.

HE man who in his youth has the feelings pro

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per to a fon and a brother, and in future life thofe of a husband and a father, is poffeffed of prin

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ciples,

ciples, which, if brought into action, will enable him to perform every focial duty of life, in an honourable, and useful way.

I have been led to think thus, from obfervation on the manner in which my own mind has acted, from my earliest remembrance. For when but a boy, if I faw a very aged man, I respected him, because my grandfather was an aged man; if I faw children, I felt myself interested towards them, from the feelings which I poffeffed for my brothers and fifters; and if I faw perfons of middle age, I felt myself towards them, in a degree, as to my father and mother.

As I have gone on in life, my feelings have kept pace with my fituation. I have now for many years been a husband and a father, and I feel myself poffeffed of a proper refpect for other women, from the affection which I have always felt for my own wife; and for children in general, from the paternal feelings of heart towards my own.

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If the minds of other people are fimilar to mine, I may fafely pronounce, that the cultivation of domeftic feelings ought to be one of the firft concerns of parents and tutors, towards those whom Providence has commited to their tuition; for it ftrikes me forcibly, that if any man is deficient in natural affection, he will be deficient in the discharge of the duties of life. Befides which, the pleasure which domestic feelings afford, is of a more delicate and fatisfying nature than any other, and has a tendency to make

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the mind cheerful; thereby giving it a fitness for the performance of every duty.

I was much pleased the other day at meeting with an account which an American farmer gives of himfelf. As it illuftrates the fubject I am upon, I will prefent it to my readers, particularly recommending it to my young friends. It begins thus:

"I thank God that it is my lot to be an American farmer, inftead of a Ruffian boor, or an Hungarian peafant. It is ftrange, that mifery, when viewed in others, fhould become to us a fort of real good. The hardships of these people are certainly greater than those which our negroes experience.When young, I thought of felling my farm, because it afforded but a dull repetition of the fame labors and pleasures. But when I confidered myfelf as divefted of my farm, I imagined the world fo wide, and every habitable place fo full, that I began to fear left there would be no room for me. My farm, my house, my barn, prefented objects from which I adduced quite new ideas; ideas more forcible than before. Why should not I find myself happy, faid I, where my father lived and died in profperity? Though he gave me no other education than the art of reading and writing, he left me a good farm, and his experience; free from debts and other difficulties. I married; and this perfectly reconciled me to my fituation: my wife rendered my house all at once cheerful and pleafing; it no longer appeared gloomy and folitary as before.