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Article THE PRINCIPLES OF FREE MASONRY EXPLAINED. ← Page 9 of 9 Article JOHN COUSTOS, FOR FREEMASONRY, Page 1 of 4 →
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The Principles Of Free Masonry Explained.
considering , that you may partake of them innocently , by moderation and by gratitude to the Author of every good and perfect g ift . Excess , you all knOAV , tends to Aveaken your understandings , to torment your bodies with diseases , to ruin your characters and fortunes , and , at length , to end your lives , hated by God , and unlamented by men . Why need I g ive an instance ? Your own experience of what passes in . the world Avill furnish you Avith too many . Behold the sons of
drunkenness I Behold the votaries of impurity ! In Avhat does their joyousness , in what does their lust terminate ? Any person who has see . n them the next morning after , their forbidden gratifications , will not ask for a solution of these questions ; the sight alone is nauseous and dep lorable , and it would be an insult on human delicacy and compassion , to repeat the descriptions that have been given of their miserable
conditions . The good things of life , enjoyed in this irrational manner , ceases to be blessings , and become curses . Thus , my . Brethren , have I endeavoured to explain the princi ples and tendency of Free Masonry . The subject is new , so far as I know , in the light and extent in which I have considered it . I may have fallen into mistakes in treating it ; these I humbly submit to your correction . I shall consider myself under an obligation to any person Avho takes the trouble to point them out to me .
John Coustos, For Freemasonry,
JOHN COUSTOS , FOR FREEMASONRY ,
" CONTINUATION OF THE SUFFERINGS OF
IN THE INQUISITION AT LISBON . [ From Vol . I . Page 553 . ] AT our taking leave , he desired us to come together at the time appointed , to Avhich we both agreed . The jeweller then made
his . report to the inquisitors , who ordered him to seize us , when weshould return , about the diamond in question . Two . days being elapsed , and my business not permitting metoaccompany Brother Mo u TON , he went alone to thejeAveller , to fetch the diamond , which Avas computed ( as-I before observed ) to be worth a hundred pieces of gold . .
The first question the jeAveller asked , after the usual compliments , was , " Where is your friend COUSTOS ? " As this jeweller had before shown me some precious stones , which he pretended I should go to work upon , Mr . Mo u TON , imagining he was desirous of instantly putting them into my hands , replied , " That I was gone to 'Change ; an 5 that if he thought proper , he Avould go and fetch me . " Howeveras
, this Familiar and five subaltern officers of the Inquisition who were along with him were afraid of losing half their prey , they inveigled Mr ,. MOUTON into the k-. ck shop , upon pretence of asking his opinion concerning certain rough diamonds . After , several signs and words had VOL , IL N
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The Principles Of Free Masonry Explained.
considering , that you may partake of them innocently , by moderation and by gratitude to the Author of every good and perfect g ift . Excess , you all knOAV , tends to Aveaken your understandings , to torment your bodies with diseases , to ruin your characters and fortunes , and , at length , to end your lives , hated by God , and unlamented by men . Why need I g ive an instance ? Your own experience of what passes in . the world Avill furnish you Avith too many . Behold the sons of
drunkenness I Behold the votaries of impurity ! In Avhat does their joyousness , in what does their lust terminate ? Any person who has see . n them the next morning after , their forbidden gratifications , will not ask for a solution of these questions ; the sight alone is nauseous and dep lorable , and it would be an insult on human delicacy and compassion , to repeat the descriptions that have been given of their miserable
conditions . The good things of life , enjoyed in this irrational manner , ceases to be blessings , and become curses . Thus , my . Brethren , have I endeavoured to explain the princi ples and tendency of Free Masonry . The subject is new , so far as I know , in the light and extent in which I have considered it . I may have fallen into mistakes in treating it ; these I humbly submit to your correction . I shall consider myself under an obligation to any person Avho takes the trouble to point them out to me .
John Coustos, For Freemasonry,
JOHN COUSTOS , FOR FREEMASONRY ,
" CONTINUATION OF THE SUFFERINGS OF
IN THE INQUISITION AT LISBON . [ From Vol . I . Page 553 . ] AT our taking leave , he desired us to come together at the time appointed , to Avhich we both agreed . The jeweller then made
his . report to the inquisitors , who ordered him to seize us , when weshould return , about the diamond in question . Two . days being elapsed , and my business not permitting metoaccompany Brother Mo u TON , he went alone to thejeAveller , to fetch the diamond , which Avas computed ( as-I before observed ) to be worth a hundred pieces of gold . .
The first question the jeAveller asked , after the usual compliments , was , " Where is your friend COUSTOS ? " As this jeweller had before shown me some precious stones , which he pretended I should go to work upon , Mr . Mo u TON , imagining he was desirous of instantly putting them into my hands , replied , " That I was gone to 'Change ; an 5 that if he thought proper , he Avould go and fetch me . " Howeveras
, this Familiar and five subaltern officers of the Inquisition who were along with him were afraid of losing half their prey , they inveigled Mr ,. MOUTON into the k-. ck shop , upon pretence of asking his opinion concerning certain rough diamonds . After , several signs and words had VOL , IL N