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Article THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE, AND CABINET OF UNIVERSAL LITERATURE . ← Page 7 of 7 Article A DEFENCE OF MASONRY, Page 1 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Magazine, And Cabinet Of Universal Literature .
your institution ; and , as it regards yourselves , your transfer hereafter will most assuredly be a transfer from the labours of this mortal life to the rest of an eternal g lory . Your faith and hope will abide to the praise of your memory , when the world sees your face no more . Your charity and love will be your robes of purity aud light , through an unm < easttrable eternity . Your seat in the Lodgewhether local or
, provincial , will be changed for a seat near the Grand Architect of the universe ; where you will be decked with all the ornaments and honours of that order , which heaven alone can make more perfect , and which eternity itselfj in all its immeasurable duration , can never dissolve . '
A Defence Of Masonry,
A DEFENCE OF MASONRY ,
PUBLISHKD A . D . I 73 O . OCCASIONED BY A PAMPHLET CALLED ' MASONRY DISSECTED .
[ COSTIXUr . D FHOM OCR LAST . ] CHAP . III . TLTAVING taken off the weight of the great objection , the design ¦ ^¦ ¦^ - 01 this Chapter is to remove an imputation , which has been often urged with great confidenceviz . The ^ . r ... dj >/ es and the whole frame
, of FREEMASONRY is so very weak and ridiculous , that it reflects upon men of the least understanding to be concerned in it ! And , now , say the merry gentlemen , it appears evidently to be so by the Dissection , which discovers nothing but an unintelligible heap of stuff and jargon , without common sense or connection . I confess I am of another opinion , though the Scheme of Masonry ,
as revealed by the Dissector , seems liable to exceptions : nor is it so clear to me , as to be fully understood at first view , by attending only to the literal construction of the words : and , for aught I know , the System , as taught in the regular Lodges , ma } " have some redundancies or defects , occasioned by the ignorance or indolence of the old members . Andindeedconsidering through what obscuri ty and
, , darkness the mystery has been delivered down ; the many centuries it has survived ; the many countries and languages , and sects and parties , it has run through-, we are rather to wonder it ever arrived to the present age , without more imperfection , in short , 1 am apt to think that Masonry ( as it is now explained ) has , in some circumstances , declined from its original purity ! It has rim long in muddy
streams , ancl , as it were , under ground ; but , notwithstanding the great rust it may have contracted , and the forbidding light it is placed in by the Dissector , there is ( if I judge right ) much of the oid fabric still remaining ; the essential pillars of the building may be discovered through the rubbish , though the superstructure be over-run with moss and ivy , and the stones , by length of time , be disjointed ,
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The Freemasons' Magazine, And Cabinet Of Universal Literature .
your institution ; and , as it regards yourselves , your transfer hereafter will most assuredly be a transfer from the labours of this mortal life to the rest of an eternal g lory . Your faith and hope will abide to the praise of your memory , when the world sees your face no more . Your charity and love will be your robes of purity aud light , through an unm < easttrable eternity . Your seat in the Lodgewhether local or
, provincial , will be changed for a seat near the Grand Architect of the universe ; where you will be decked with all the ornaments and honours of that order , which heaven alone can make more perfect , and which eternity itselfj in all its immeasurable duration , can never dissolve . '
A Defence Of Masonry,
A DEFENCE OF MASONRY ,
PUBLISHKD A . D . I 73 O . OCCASIONED BY A PAMPHLET CALLED ' MASONRY DISSECTED .
[ COSTIXUr . D FHOM OCR LAST . ] CHAP . III . TLTAVING taken off the weight of the great objection , the design ¦ ^¦ ¦^ - 01 this Chapter is to remove an imputation , which has been often urged with great confidenceviz . The ^ . r ... dj >/ es and the whole frame
, of FREEMASONRY is so very weak and ridiculous , that it reflects upon men of the least understanding to be concerned in it ! And , now , say the merry gentlemen , it appears evidently to be so by the Dissection , which discovers nothing but an unintelligible heap of stuff and jargon , without common sense or connection . I confess I am of another opinion , though the Scheme of Masonry ,
as revealed by the Dissector , seems liable to exceptions : nor is it so clear to me , as to be fully understood at first view , by attending only to the literal construction of the words : and , for aught I know , the System , as taught in the regular Lodges , ma } " have some redundancies or defects , occasioned by the ignorance or indolence of the old members . Andindeedconsidering through what obscuri ty and
, , darkness the mystery has been delivered down ; the many centuries it has survived ; the many countries and languages , and sects and parties , it has run through-, we are rather to wonder it ever arrived to the present age , without more imperfection , in short , 1 am apt to think that Masonry ( as it is now explained ) has , in some circumstances , declined from its original purity ! It has rim long in muddy
streams , ancl , as it were , under ground ; but , notwithstanding the great rust it may have contracted , and the forbidding light it is placed in by the Dissector , there is ( if I judge right ) much of the oid fabric still remaining ; the essential pillars of the building may be discovered through the rubbish , though the superstructure be over-run with moss and ivy , and the stones , by length of time , be disjointed ,