The world at large, is every ready to credit the writings of Homer, Hesiad [Hesiod], Pluturch [Plutarch], Socrates, Pythagoras, Virgil Josephus <​Mahomet​> and an hundred others but where, tell me where, have they left a line, that a simple method of solving the the truth of this place of eternal <​life​>? Says the Saviour “If any man will do his (the Father’s) will, he shall know of the doctrine, whither it be of God, or whither I speak of myself.” Here, <​then​>, is a problem that <​or more properly​> a method of solving the “divinity” of men, by the divinity in yourself, that as far exceeds the calculation by numbers, as the sun excels a candle well might Jesus would to god that all men understood <​it​>, and were willing to be governed by it— that when We one had filled the measure of his days <​he​> could exclaim like Jesus: “Veni mori, et revivescere!” Your good wishes to “go ahead coupled with Mahomet and a ‘right hand man’,” are rather more vain than virtuous. Why, sir, Caesar had his right hand Brutus, who was his “left hand” assassin. <​not however applying the allusion to you​>

As to the private seal you mention, if sent to me, I shall receive it with the gratitude of a servant of God, and pray that the donor may receive a reward in the the resurrection of the just.

The summit of your fame future fame seems to be hid in the political policy of a “mathematical problem for the chief majestracy of this , which, if I suppose might be solved by “double position” where the errors of the supposition are used to produce a true answer: But, sir, when I leave the dignity and honor I received from heaven, to boost a man into power through the aid of my friends, where the evil and designing, after the object has been accomplished, can back up the clemency intended as a reciprocation for such favors; and where [p. 4[a]]