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The Freemasons' Repository.
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY .
A DISCOURSE , , DELIVERED BEFORE THE LODGE OF AMITY , PRESTON , BY THE REV . BROTHER H . SHUTTLEWORTH , M . ; U VICAR OP KIHKHAM , LAN ' CASH IHE .
' LOTE AS BRETHREN . " PET . ill . 8 . CONCLUDED TROM OUR LAST . ]]
SO noble is . Benevolence that the most generous and heroic spirits of antiquity , whom paganism has deified or Christianity sainted , whom history never mentions without honour , and whom malice itself is ashamed to calumniate , have ever been famed and remarkable for it . It is of itself a virtuous disposition , and needs but the actual exertion to make it a direct virtue , that its own intrinsic excellence may place it amongst the hig hest orders ; it is that , in short ( if any thing can )
, which we are told will bring us to a near resemblance with God himself , arid is , therefore , the ground and condition of our present happiness , and of that which Is to come . ¦ The law of Christ further prescribes the exercise of this virtue to his followers , not only as he himself was deepl y touched with a sense of our infirmities ; not only thateven in his present state of bless
, and g lory , he still retains the same tenderness of spirit , though inother respects impossible , but on this account likewise that it is , of all others , a duty the most apposite to our present state and circumstances . Man is sent into the worldin a forlorn arid helpless condition , very
inferior , in that respect , to the generality of other creatures , who are chiefiy armed with defensive powers , and on every account more capable of providing for their own subsistence and security iu a rude , unsocial , or independent state . Therefore , our wise and beneficent Creator has endued us with a tender and merciful disposition , that we might place the safeguard of our lives , as-well as our comfortable subsistence in this world in the mutual assistance of each other ; and
since every man is liable to become miserable , nothing can be more just and equitable , than that we should deal with others as we ourselves would be dealt by ; striving to prevent those miseries , and rejnove those calamities from others which we ourselve s would hope to avoid . Thus Solomon advises as to the use of riches : ' g ive to seven , and also to eight , for thou khowest not what evil shall be upon ths-earth : ' arid agreeably to this , what the apostle observes in rela-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Repository.
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY .
A DISCOURSE , , DELIVERED BEFORE THE LODGE OF AMITY , PRESTON , BY THE REV . BROTHER H . SHUTTLEWORTH , M . ; U VICAR OP KIHKHAM , LAN ' CASH IHE .
' LOTE AS BRETHREN . " PET . ill . 8 . CONCLUDED TROM OUR LAST . ]]
SO noble is . Benevolence that the most generous and heroic spirits of antiquity , whom paganism has deified or Christianity sainted , whom history never mentions without honour , and whom malice itself is ashamed to calumniate , have ever been famed and remarkable for it . It is of itself a virtuous disposition , and needs but the actual exertion to make it a direct virtue , that its own intrinsic excellence may place it amongst the hig hest orders ; it is that , in short ( if any thing can )
, which we are told will bring us to a near resemblance with God himself , arid is , therefore , the ground and condition of our present happiness , and of that which Is to come . ¦ The law of Christ further prescribes the exercise of this virtue to his followers , not only as he himself was deepl y touched with a sense of our infirmities ; not only thateven in his present state of bless
, and g lory , he still retains the same tenderness of spirit , though inother respects impossible , but on this account likewise that it is , of all others , a duty the most apposite to our present state and circumstances . Man is sent into the worldin a forlorn arid helpless condition , very
inferior , in that respect , to the generality of other creatures , who are chiefiy armed with defensive powers , and on every account more capable of providing for their own subsistence and security iu a rude , unsocial , or independent state . Therefore , our wise and beneficent Creator has endued us with a tender and merciful disposition , that we might place the safeguard of our lives , as-well as our comfortable subsistence in this world in the mutual assistance of each other ; and
since every man is liable to become miserable , nothing can be more just and equitable , than that we should deal with others as we ourselves would be dealt by ; striving to prevent those miseries , and rejnove those calamities from others which we ourselve s would hope to avoid . Thus Solomon advises as to the use of riches : ' g ive to seven , and also to eight , for thou khowest not what evil shall be upon ths-earth : ' arid agreeably to this , what the apostle observes in rela-