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The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE, OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY .
FOR JUNE 1795 .
FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE PRESENT TIME .
A HISTORY OF MASONRY ,
FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES * . fflpiHE Almi ghty Architect of the Universe having prepared this Ji . globe , and replenished it with all its animal , vegetable , and ipiueral furniture , as a habitation fit to receive the class of rational beings his wisdom determined to place in itf ; he created man in his
own image , and endued him with a capacity of mind , and powers of body , for acquiring those sciences , and exercising those arts , that are so successfully cultivated by every civilized nation . How Adam forfeited the state of felicity in which he was originally placed , is hot our peculiar province to enquire , farther than we are informed by the inspired penman : it is sufficient to remark , that he incurred
banishment from the garden of Eden , by too eager a desire for knowledge , of which he ventured to anticipate the possession by a prohibited act . Hence he entailed upon himself and all his sinful posterity the severe punishment of'earning their bread by the sweat of their brow ; and * Principally from the writings of our highl-respectable and well-skilled
y Brethren N OOI _ , TIIOL ' and PRESTON . f The first Christians computed their times as the nations did among whom mey lived , till A . D . 516 , when Dionysius Exiguus , a Roman abbot , taught them to compute from the birth of Christ : but he lost four years , by fixing the Christian aora four years later than the truth . Therefore though , according to the Hebrew chronology , and other good authorities , Jesus Christ was born in the of the world 4000 : yet if we add to those the present of our
year years year Lord , or A . D . 1795 , the sum 5795 will not be the true Anno Mundi , or year of Masonry , without the farther addition of these four lost years . But this being a degree of accuracy that Masons in general do not attend to , we must , after this intimation , $ : ii \ follow the vulgar mode of computation to be intelligible . j A 2
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE, OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY .
FOR JUNE 1795 .
FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE PRESENT TIME .
A HISTORY OF MASONRY ,
FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES * . fflpiHE Almi ghty Architect of the Universe having prepared this Ji . globe , and replenished it with all its animal , vegetable , and ipiueral furniture , as a habitation fit to receive the class of rational beings his wisdom determined to place in itf ; he created man in his
own image , and endued him with a capacity of mind , and powers of body , for acquiring those sciences , and exercising those arts , that are so successfully cultivated by every civilized nation . How Adam forfeited the state of felicity in which he was originally placed , is hot our peculiar province to enquire , farther than we are informed by the inspired penman : it is sufficient to remark , that he incurred
banishment from the garden of Eden , by too eager a desire for knowledge , of which he ventured to anticipate the possession by a prohibited act . Hence he entailed upon himself and all his sinful posterity the severe punishment of'earning their bread by the sweat of their brow ; and * Principally from the writings of our highl-respectable and well-skilled
y Brethren N OOI _ , TIIOL ' and PRESTON . f The first Christians computed their times as the nations did among whom mey lived , till A . D . 516 , when Dionysius Exiguus , a Roman abbot , taught them to compute from the birth of Christ : but he lost four years , by fixing the Christian aora four years later than the truth . Therefore though , according to the Hebrew chronology , and other good authorities , Jesus Christ was born in the of the world 4000 : yet if we add to those the present of our
year years year Lord , or A . D . 1795 , the sum 5795 will not be the true Anno Mundi , or year of Masonry , without the farther addition of these four lost years . But this being a degree of accuracy that Masons in general do not attend to , we must , after this intimation , $ : ii \ follow the vulgar mode of computation to be intelligible . j A 2