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Account Of John Watkins, L. L. D.
And it is , moreover , with the glowing pleasure of friendship , and the impartiality of truth , that we can say , the virtues of the heart are united in him to the powers of the mind . He is a warm , sensible and generous friend ; a sociable , entertaining , and communicative companion ; and an instructive , ardent , and benevolent brother !
One who has the happiness of calling him by each of these three appellations bears with rich satisfaction this teftimony to a character he loves and reveres .
John Coustos, Freemason.
JOHN COUSTOS , FREEMASON .
CONTINUATION OF THE NARRATIVE OF
IN THE INQUISITION AT LISBON .
( Continuedfrom Page ioo . ^ - jrirOWEVER , afterwards calling to mind that grief would only JLJL aggravate my calamity , I endeavoured . to arm my soul with patience , and to accustom myself in the best manner I was able to my unfortunate situation . Accordingly I rouzed my spirits , and banishing , for a few moments , all these horrible and mournful ideas , I Began to
reflect seriously on the methods how to . extricate myself from this labyrinth of troubles . The consciousness that I had not committed any crimewhich could justly merit deathj would now and then soften my o-rief , but immediately after dreadful thoughts overspread my mind , when I recollected the crying injustice of which the tribunal that was to judge me is accused . 1 considered that , being a Protestant , I fliould inevitably feel , in its utmost rigours , all that rage and barbarous zeal could infuse in the breasts of Jesuits , v / ho cruelly g loried in committing to the flames great numbers of ill-fated victims , whose only crimp was
their differing from them in religious opinions ; or , rather , who were obnoxious to those tygers merely because they thought worthily of human nature , and held in the utmost detestation those Romish barbarities which are not to be parallelled in any other religion . These apprehensions , together with the reflections which reason suggested to me , viz . that it would be highly incumbent on me to calm ' the tumult of my spirits , in order to prevent my falling into the snares
which ray judges vyould not fail to spread round me , either by giving them an opportunity of pronouncing me guilty , or by forcing me to apostatize from the reli g ion , in which I was born ; these things , I say , worked so strongly on my mind , that from this moment I devoted , my whole thonghts to the means of my justification . This I made so familiar to myself , that I was persuaded neither the partiality- of my jiidtjes , nor the dreadful ideas I had entertained of their cruelty , could Vol .. il . . Y
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Account Of John Watkins, L. L. D.
And it is , moreover , with the glowing pleasure of friendship , and the impartiality of truth , that we can say , the virtues of the heart are united in him to the powers of the mind . He is a warm , sensible and generous friend ; a sociable , entertaining , and communicative companion ; and an instructive , ardent , and benevolent brother !
One who has the happiness of calling him by each of these three appellations bears with rich satisfaction this teftimony to a character he loves and reveres .
John Coustos, Freemason.
JOHN COUSTOS , FREEMASON .
CONTINUATION OF THE NARRATIVE OF
IN THE INQUISITION AT LISBON .
( Continuedfrom Page ioo . ^ - jrirOWEVER , afterwards calling to mind that grief would only JLJL aggravate my calamity , I endeavoured . to arm my soul with patience , and to accustom myself in the best manner I was able to my unfortunate situation . Accordingly I rouzed my spirits , and banishing , for a few moments , all these horrible and mournful ideas , I Began to
reflect seriously on the methods how to . extricate myself from this labyrinth of troubles . The consciousness that I had not committed any crimewhich could justly merit deathj would now and then soften my o-rief , but immediately after dreadful thoughts overspread my mind , when I recollected the crying injustice of which the tribunal that was to judge me is accused . 1 considered that , being a Protestant , I fliould inevitably feel , in its utmost rigours , all that rage and barbarous zeal could infuse in the breasts of Jesuits , v / ho cruelly g loried in committing to the flames great numbers of ill-fated victims , whose only crimp was
their differing from them in religious opinions ; or , rather , who were obnoxious to those tygers merely because they thought worthily of human nature , and held in the utmost detestation those Romish barbarities which are not to be parallelled in any other religion . These apprehensions , together with the reflections which reason suggested to me , viz . that it would be highly incumbent on me to calm ' the tumult of my spirits , in order to prevent my falling into the snares
which ray judges vyould not fail to spread round me , either by giving them an opportunity of pronouncing me guilty , or by forcing me to apostatize from the reli g ion , in which I was born ; these things , I say , worked so strongly on my mind , that from this moment I devoted , my whole thonghts to the means of my justification . This I made so familiar to myself , that I was persuaded neither the partiality- of my jiidtjes , nor the dreadful ideas I had entertained of their cruelty , could Vol .. il . . Y