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On Freemasonry.
ship of the true God , in the midst of the idolatrous nations , by whom he was surrounded ; persecuted for his faith , lie fled to the land of Haran , where he was selected by the Almighty as the subject of a peculiar revelation and blessing , who declared , that unto his seed he would give the land from the Nile unto the great river EuphratesGen .
, ch . xv . ; but his wife Sarah being barren , he took her maid Hagar to his bed , from whom sprang Ishmael . The son of the bondwoman was not , however , the heir for whom the promise had been given , for Sarah , contrary to the law of nature at her age , bore a son , called by his father Isaac , in whose seed the nations of the earth were to be blessed .
Ishmael , being detected by Sarah mocking her son at the feast given by Abraham at his weaning , was , with his mother Hagar , driven forth into the wilderness , where it pleased the Creator to protect him till he became a powerful nation , because he was of the race of Abraham . Thus the
difference between bond and free became established , and the law that the slave shall not be admitted to a participation of the privileges of our order . The peculiar blessing bestowed on Abraham demanded an exercise of peculiar faith , and he was commanded to offer up his son as an atonement and type of the greater
sacrifice to follow ; obedient , and confident in His power who gave him , even from the grave , to raise up Isaac's seed , the patriarch- erected his altar on Mount Moriah , and stretched forth his arm to slay the willing victim . Being found perfect , the knife was stayed , and a more acceptable sacrifice substituted . Abraham , being at the point of death ,
commanded his servant to provide a wife for Isaac from his own kindred , justly fearing that should he marry with a Canaanitish woman his faith would be endangered . The faithful messenger departed for the city of Nahor in Mesopotamia , and returned with Rachel , the sister of Laban , to be a wife unto his master ' s son , to whom she bore issue Esau and Jacob .
The race of Shem had been hitherto prohibited from intermarrying with the descendants of Ham , that they might remain a peculiar and distinct people . Esau , regardless of the Divine will , violated the commands of his father , and took to wife Judith , the daughter of Beeri , the Hittite , and Bashemath , the daughter of Elon , both of an idolatrous nation ; for which crime his birthri ght was permitted to depart from him ; and Jacob , by the contrivance ofhis mother , VOL . I . K K
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
ship of the true God , in the midst of the idolatrous nations , by whom he was surrounded ; persecuted for his faith , lie fled to the land of Haran , where he was selected by the Almighty as the subject of a peculiar revelation and blessing , who declared , that unto his seed he would give the land from the Nile unto the great river EuphratesGen .
, ch . xv . ; but his wife Sarah being barren , he took her maid Hagar to his bed , from whom sprang Ishmael . The son of the bondwoman was not , however , the heir for whom the promise had been given , for Sarah , contrary to the law of nature at her age , bore a son , called by his father Isaac , in whose seed the nations of the earth were to be blessed .
Ishmael , being detected by Sarah mocking her son at the feast given by Abraham at his weaning , was , with his mother Hagar , driven forth into the wilderness , where it pleased the Creator to protect him till he became a powerful nation , because he was of the race of Abraham . Thus the
difference between bond and free became established , and the law that the slave shall not be admitted to a participation of the privileges of our order . The peculiar blessing bestowed on Abraham demanded an exercise of peculiar faith , and he was commanded to offer up his son as an atonement and type of the greater
sacrifice to follow ; obedient , and confident in His power who gave him , even from the grave , to raise up Isaac's seed , the patriarch- erected his altar on Mount Moriah , and stretched forth his arm to slay the willing victim . Being found perfect , the knife was stayed , and a more acceptable sacrifice substituted . Abraham , being at the point of death ,
commanded his servant to provide a wife for Isaac from his own kindred , justly fearing that should he marry with a Canaanitish woman his faith would be endangered . The faithful messenger departed for the city of Nahor in Mesopotamia , and returned with Rachel , the sister of Laban , to be a wife unto his master ' s son , to whom she bore issue Esau and Jacob .
The race of Shem had been hitherto prohibited from intermarrying with the descendants of Ham , that they might remain a peculiar and distinct people . Esau , regardless of the Divine will , violated the commands of his father , and took to wife Judith , the daughter of Beeri , the Hittite , and Bashemath , the daughter of Elon , both of an idolatrous nation ; for which crime his birthri ght was permitted to depart from him ; and Jacob , by the contrivance ofhis mother , VOL . I . K K