BOOK OF TRUTH,

IN

HONOUR OF LOVE, AND THE APOSTLES

OF LIFE,

BY THOMAS O'DONOGHUE.

"Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will
guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of him-
self: but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak;
and he will show you things to come."-JOHN XVI.

1850.

Printed, for the Author, by W. ROCK, Machine and General
Printer, Elephant and Castle, Newington.

PODI

INTRODUCTION.

TO THE LADIES AND THEIR COHEIRS IN TIME

AND ETERNITY.

In arbours, as my path pursue, her praises I will sing,

In concert with the blackbird and the thrush, in tunes so melodious.
The preposterous of the day may by her take pattern;
If so, in ambush no envious spleen will them affright;
But should they choose the thorny path pursue,
By persecution and craft each heart will them forsake.
Desponding man, upon his couch will say, in truth,
That blessed is the flock by conscience rule the day.
Me, the noble and humble in amnesty may seclude;
But let them judge whether consolation or favour is my aim.
The man whose humble heart gives way to prejudice or human
Applause, in time will stand, and wish he never crawled ;
But if led by truth and the Omnipotent hand

Each act of his will shine.

In approaching the forest of human thought, and launching upon the ocean of moral experience, which wrecks the reason of vain, presuming man, I submit the model idea used by me through the various stages of our honorary existence and sensitive pilgrimage. The impartial critic may review the focus of my spiritual and temporal attractions, and cast of the mind's eye, practically, by comparing them with the original, then imitate the life of genius, handed the self-preservators of private judgment. The authority of the reformed Church and State of all nations, in communion with individual common sense, free to will righteously for the passionate, whose enraptured souls coerce the willing member, without a cause, in an existing world.