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To The Proprietor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
TO THE PROPRIETOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
SIR , I HAVE just read , with an equal share of surprise and indignation , a letter in the Gentleman ' s Magazine , in which the visionary author strives to insiuiate that the mysteries of Masonry , and the assemblage of its Members , have had a tendency to occasion and promote the French' revolution ; but his arguments are so futile , and so weaklsupportedas to destroy and confound the reasons adduced
y , for a demonstration ; and I should not have attempted an answer , but have passed over the illiberal and puerile aspersions contained in this malicious charge with the silent contempt due to such a deformed , bantling , had not I in the overflowing of my indignation been pressed by a worthy Brother present to stand up in the support of the most excellent of all human institutions next to Christianity ; an institution
in itself totally repugnant to rebellion , tumult , anarchy , war , and faction , and whose genuine Members are the sons of peace , order , har' many , and brotherly love ; congenial to whose inmost hearts is obedience to that holy injunction in the 17 th verse in the first epistle of St . Peter— " Love the Brotherhood , fear God , and honour the King ;" a context from whichat the last anniversary grand provincial
meet-, ing of Free and Accepted Masons for the county of Kent , the worthy and reverend Jethro Inwood , rector of Deptford , made so excellent a discourse , to the utter confusion and discomfiture of the writer above alluded to ; and Iiapp ]* , truly happy , do I feel myself in this timely and truly honourable publication , which carries home to the enemies of our amiable Order so thorough a refutation and conviction , that to read
it unbiassed by prejudice , and with an impartial eye , is to unveil every Masonic excellence , as unbounded as the universe , and as durable as eternity * , which , I venture to affirm , will prove the fate of our most sacred profession , notwithstanding all the narrowness of misconception , the gall of malicious scribblers , and the detraction of low-born envy .
I am , Sir , Your Friend and Brother , A FREE AND ACCEPTED MASON . Mailing , July 11 , 7 A . L , 5794 . j
\ Tbe Proprietor has received a great number of letters on tbe subject of the essay above alluded to , but thinks it unnecessary to insert them , tbe Institution being founded on too firm a base to be shaken by tbe breath of an anonymous slanderery ^
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To The Proprietor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
TO THE PROPRIETOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
SIR , I HAVE just read , with an equal share of surprise and indignation , a letter in the Gentleman ' s Magazine , in which the visionary author strives to insiuiate that the mysteries of Masonry , and the assemblage of its Members , have had a tendency to occasion and promote the French' revolution ; but his arguments are so futile , and so weaklsupportedas to destroy and confound the reasons adduced
y , for a demonstration ; and I should not have attempted an answer , but have passed over the illiberal and puerile aspersions contained in this malicious charge with the silent contempt due to such a deformed , bantling , had not I in the overflowing of my indignation been pressed by a worthy Brother present to stand up in the support of the most excellent of all human institutions next to Christianity ; an institution
in itself totally repugnant to rebellion , tumult , anarchy , war , and faction , and whose genuine Members are the sons of peace , order , har' many , and brotherly love ; congenial to whose inmost hearts is obedience to that holy injunction in the 17 th verse in the first epistle of St . Peter— " Love the Brotherhood , fear God , and honour the King ;" a context from whichat the last anniversary grand provincial
meet-, ing of Free and Accepted Masons for the county of Kent , the worthy and reverend Jethro Inwood , rector of Deptford , made so excellent a discourse , to the utter confusion and discomfiture of the writer above alluded to ; and Iiapp ]* , truly happy , do I feel myself in this timely and truly honourable publication , which carries home to the enemies of our amiable Order so thorough a refutation and conviction , that to read
it unbiassed by prejudice , and with an impartial eye , is to unveil every Masonic excellence , as unbounded as the universe , and as durable as eternity * , which , I venture to affirm , will prove the fate of our most sacred profession , notwithstanding all the narrowness of misconception , the gall of malicious scribblers , and the detraction of low-born envy .
I am , Sir , Your Friend and Brother , A FREE AND ACCEPTED MASON . Mailing , July 11 , 7 A . L , 5794 . j
\ Tbe Proprietor has received a great number of letters on tbe subject of the essay above alluded to , but thinks it unnecessary to insert them , tbe Institution being founded on too firm a base to be shaken by tbe breath of an anonymous slanderery ^