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The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library. For November 1794.
THE *FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE , OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY . FOR NOVEMBER 1794 .
- A SERMON , PREACHED AT THE ANNIVERSARY GRAND PROVINCIAL MEETING . OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS , . : AT WEST JIAH 1 NG , IU KENT , MAV I < J , 1 794 *
BY THE REV .. JETHRO 1 NWOOD , B . A . ( CURATE OF ST . PAUL ' S , DEPTFORD , AND MASTER OF THE RECTOR" ?! HOUSE ACADEMY .
PReprinted in this Magazine by Permission of the AUTHOR . 1
ADDRESS TO THE . BROTHERHOOD . BELOVED , .-. THE shield under which I hide myself from public censure for the presumption of publishing' the following- Sermon , is the earnestness of your solicitations . Fortunate to please so respectable an assembly of Free and Accepted Masons
at the time of its delivery , I flatter myself with the hopes that , by this attempt , which was contrary to all my intentions , I shall meet an increase of that success ; and that in reading as well as hearing , it may not only keep alive " in all your bosoms that flattering opinion of your preacher which ' you was then pleased to favour him with ; but also that those serious admonitions which are advanced in it , may have a lasting effect in the hearts of all the Brethren , and at different times stir them up to the practice of those duties which onlcan
y ornament their characters as Men , as Masons , and as Christians . To love the Brotherhood , to fear God , and honour the King , are each , and all of them , such essential characteristics of the honourable profession of Masonry , that where both the sentiment and practice of them are not , whatever any man may call himself , I shall make no more scruple to pronounce that he is not a good Mason , than I should hesitate to say , a wicked man is not a good Christian .
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The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library. For November 1794.
THE *FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE , OR GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY . FOR NOVEMBER 1794 .
- A SERMON , PREACHED AT THE ANNIVERSARY GRAND PROVINCIAL MEETING . OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS , . : AT WEST JIAH 1 NG , IU KENT , MAV I < J , 1 794 *
BY THE REV .. JETHRO 1 NWOOD , B . A . ( CURATE OF ST . PAUL ' S , DEPTFORD , AND MASTER OF THE RECTOR" ?! HOUSE ACADEMY .
PReprinted in this Magazine by Permission of the AUTHOR . 1
ADDRESS TO THE . BROTHERHOOD . BELOVED , .-. THE shield under which I hide myself from public censure for the presumption of publishing' the following- Sermon , is the earnestness of your solicitations . Fortunate to please so respectable an assembly of Free and Accepted Masons
at the time of its delivery , I flatter myself with the hopes that , by this attempt , which was contrary to all my intentions , I shall meet an increase of that success ; and that in reading as well as hearing , it may not only keep alive " in all your bosoms that flattering opinion of your preacher which ' you was then pleased to favour him with ; but also that those serious admonitions which are advanced in it , may have a lasting effect in the hearts of all the Brethren , and at different times stir them up to the practice of those duties which onlcan
y ornament their characters as Men , as Masons , and as Christians . To love the Brotherhood , to fear God , and honour the King , are each , and all of them , such essential characteristics of the honourable profession of Masonry , that where both the sentiment and practice of them are not , whatever any man may call himself , I shall make no more scruple to pronounce that he is not a good Mason , than I should hesitate to say , a wicked man is not a good Christian .