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A Good Wife.
her husband , and eateth not the bread of idleness : her children risp up an ! call her blessed ; her husband also , and he praiseth her . "As a good and pious Christian , she looks up with an eye of gratitude to the dispenser and disposer of all things , to the husband of the widow , and the father of the fatherless , intreating his divine favour and assistin this and other moral and reliious duty ; well satisfied
ance every g , that if she duly and punctually discharges her several offices in this life , she shall be blessed and rewarded for it in another . — " Favour is deceitful , and beauty is vain , but a woman thatfearetb the Lord shall be praised . "
The Illuminated.
THE ILLUMINATED .
Extract from Lord GARDENSTOXE ' Travels on the Continent of Europe , 1787 , Vol . II . P . 1 S 4 ., respecting THE FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS of Bavaria .
MUNICH , Oct . 6 . —After noticing several particulars , foreign to our purpose , he goes on as follows : — Some years ago , a very singular and almost incredible species of fanaticism arose , and has been propagated in this country so far as to alarm the friends and associates of regular government and established relig ion . —It is , indeed , a system of total infidelity of all relisubstitute sort of
gion , and , in the room of it , they attempt to a ADORATION OF VIRTUE , as the principle and source of all wisdom and happiness among mankind . As to the appellation of this new sect , they call-themselves " THE ILLUMINATED . " The . author and preacher of this extraordinary doctrine was a Monsieur Waishaurt , professor of canon and civil law at Ingolstad . He first taught those lessons
to his students , and'when obliged to abandon his office , he went about and propagated his faith , with no small success , among the younger sort . of all ranks and professions . . He for some time has retired , and is allowed to live in quiet at Sr-. xe Gotha ; but several of his disciples in this country have been severely punished , and some of them are now in prison . As this singular sect began to assume the
character of FREEMASONS , for the sake of protection and safety to their meetings , the Elector of Bavaria published edicts against them in the assumed character of M ASONS . —This circumstance , 1 remember , gave rise to articles in our English newspapers , injurious to the humanity and good sense of the elector ; , as if ; merely from superstitious prejudice , he had persecuted the honest and charitable societies , called THE FUEE AND ACCEPTED MASONS ,
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A Good Wife.
her husband , and eateth not the bread of idleness : her children risp up an ! call her blessed ; her husband also , and he praiseth her . "As a good and pious Christian , she looks up with an eye of gratitude to the dispenser and disposer of all things , to the husband of the widow , and the father of the fatherless , intreating his divine favour and assistin this and other moral and reliious duty ; well satisfied
ance every g , that if she duly and punctually discharges her several offices in this life , she shall be blessed and rewarded for it in another . — " Favour is deceitful , and beauty is vain , but a woman thatfearetb the Lord shall be praised . "
The Illuminated.
THE ILLUMINATED .
Extract from Lord GARDENSTOXE ' Travels on the Continent of Europe , 1787 , Vol . II . P . 1 S 4 ., respecting THE FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS of Bavaria .
MUNICH , Oct . 6 . —After noticing several particulars , foreign to our purpose , he goes on as follows : — Some years ago , a very singular and almost incredible species of fanaticism arose , and has been propagated in this country so far as to alarm the friends and associates of regular government and established relig ion . —It is , indeed , a system of total infidelity of all relisubstitute sort of
gion , and , in the room of it , they attempt to a ADORATION OF VIRTUE , as the principle and source of all wisdom and happiness among mankind . As to the appellation of this new sect , they call-themselves " THE ILLUMINATED . " The . author and preacher of this extraordinary doctrine was a Monsieur Waishaurt , professor of canon and civil law at Ingolstad . He first taught those lessons
to his students , and'when obliged to abandon his office , he went about and propagated his faith , with no small success , among the younger sort . of all ranks and professions . . He for some time has retired , and is allowed to live in quiet at Sr-. xe Gotha ; but several of his disciples in this country have been severely punished , and some of them are now in prison . As this singular sect began to assume the
character of FREEMASONS , for the sake of protection and safety to their meetings , the Elector of Bavaria published edicts against them in the assumed character of M ASONS . —This circumstance , 1 remember , gave rise to articles in our English newspapers , injurious to the humanity and good sense of the elector ; , as if ; merely from superstitious prejudice , he had persecuted the honest and charitable societies , called THE FUEE AND ACCEPTED MASONS ,