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On Freemasonry.
but placed in a coffin , in the manner of the Egyptians , that they might bear his bones with them to the promised land ; the venerable patriarch , after blessing his children , and foretelling their future misery and deliverance , died in the salvation he awaited . Joseph , by the command of Pharaoh , carried his father's body beyond Jordanand laced it in
, p the cave of the field of Machpelah . After the death of Joseph , the Egyptians oppressed the Hebrews , employing them in the most disgusting labour , and , alarmed at their increase , eventually enacted a law , commanding that every male child amongst them should be destroyed at its birth ; the Jewish femalesbeing fairwere
, , preserved by their cruel masters . At this period the wife of Amram , the grandson of Levi , was delivered of a son , whom her maternal feelings led her to preserve from the threatened destruction , by concealing him in an ark of
rushes , where he was eventually found by the daughter of the Egyptian monarch , who , fascinated by his infant beauty , reared and educated him as her own , and she called him Moses , from nttfo , because DOfUO , out of the waters , tftrwo , have I drawn him . Destined by the Deity to become the leader and deliverer
of his people , Moses was incited to slay an Egyptian overseer , indignant at the cruelty he witnessed inflicted on his brethren , and fled , to avoid the wrath of Pharaoh , to Jethro , the ruler and priest of Midian , who bestowed on him his daughter Zipporah in marriage ; here it was , that while employed in watching the herds of his father-in-law
, that God appeared to him in the burning bush at the foot of Horeb , and commanded him to proclaim his will and power in the land of the Egyptian ; manifesting , by a succession of the most awful miracles , that he was in truth the God of Isaac and of Jacob .
Armed with the Divine commission and authority , Moses returned to the court of that despotic king , from whose wrath he had so lately fled , and demanded , in the name of the God of Israel , permission for the departure of his people ; but the heart of the proud monarch being hardenedhe refusedand rebelled against the mandate of the
, , Deity . At the prophet's word the waters of Egypt were changed to blood , engendering the most loathsome reptiles ; from the dust of the earth arose clouds of lice and flies , inflicting a grievous pestilence ; thc persons of the Egyptians became the victims of a loathsome disease ; their firstborn
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
but placed in a coffin , in the manner of the Egyptians , that they might bear his bones with them to the promised land ; the venerable patriarch , after blessing his children , and foretelling their future misery and deliverance , died in the salvation he awaited . Joseph , by the command of Pharaoh , carried his father's body beyond Jordanand laced it in
, p the cave of the field of Machpelah . After the death of Joseph , the Egyptians oppressed the Hebrews , employing them in the most disgusting labour , and , alarmed at their increase , eventually enacted a law , commanding that every male child amongst them should be destroyed at its birth ; the Jewish femalesbeing fairwere
, , preserved by their cruel masters . At this period the wife of Amram , the grandson of Levi , was delivered of a son , whom her maternal feelings led her to preserve from the threatened destruction , by concealing him in an ark of
rushes , where he was eventually found by the daughter of the Egyptian monarch , who , fascinated by his infant beauty , reared and educated him as her own , and she called him Moses , from nttfo , because DOfUO , out of the waters , tftrwo , have I drawn him . Destined by the Deity to become the leader and deliverer
of his people , Moses was incited to slay an Egyptian overseer , indignant at the cruelty he witnessed inflicted on his brethren , and fled , to avoid the wrath of Pharaoh , to Jethro , the ruler and priest of Midian , who bestowed on him his daughter Zipporah in marriage ; here it was , that while employed in watching the herds of his father-in-law
, that God appeared to him in the burning bush at the foot of Horeb , and commanded him to proclaim his will and power in the land of the Egyptian ; manifesting , by a succession of the most awful miracles , that he was in truth the God of Isaac and of Jacob .
Armed with the Divine commission and authority , Moses returned to the court of that despotic king , from whose wrath he had so lately fled , and demanded , in the name of the God of Israel , permission for the departure of his people ; but the heart of the proud monarch being hardenedhe refusedand rebelled against the mandate of the
, , Deity . At the prophet's word the waters of Egypt were changed to blood , engendering the most loathsome reptiles ; from the dust of the earth arose clouds of lice and flies , inflicting a grievous pestilence ; thc persons of the Egyptians became the victims of a loathsome disease ; their firstborn