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Article TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 15 of 34 →
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
Society , I beg to send you the following , out of several , very eminent opinions , which it has elicited ; and certainly I am ¦ disjiosecl , in consequence , to claim a strong presumption in favour of the supposition above stated . Tlie Deau of Exeter , in a note to me , speaks of the Institution as " A Society which is not only inimical to tho principles of our
Eeligion , but does , in fact , set itself up above it . " In a long " Notice" of my book in the " Church of England Quarterly Eeview , " ( April , 1850 , ) from the pen of the Rev . T . Hartwell Home ( " whose praise is in all the Churches , " ) you may read , " A careful examination of Mr . Trevilian's volume constrains us to deliver it as our deliberate judgment , that he has proved that the
religious principles of Freemasonry can be nothing more than Deism . " "A system which , to say the least of it , is a gross infringement of the purity and spirituality of the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ . " But , above all , the Rector of Buekland , near here , ( whom I hope I shall not offend by characterising him publicly as a most devoted Minister of the Gospeland whose , name I
, enclose for the benefit of enquirers , ) gives me leave to say , that though a Freemason himself of many years standing , he entirely concurs in my views on the Institution , its principles and tendency ; that being the son of au eminent Mason , he has been often solicited to become the Master of a Loclge , but that his conscience could
never permit it ; that , in taking Orders , he saw at once it would not do ; ancl that , in fact , he never knew any one of standing ( as he expresses it ) in the Ministry , who continued to frequent a Masonic Lodge . Now , Dr . Carwithen was a very candid man , open to discussion and to reason , despite his perverted opinions . Aud what more likelythrough-the favour of God—when earthly hopes were on the
, , wane , the futility of earthly friendship made apparent , and the soul unable any longer to derive warmth from " the sparks itself had kindled , " ' —than that he should have wished , at last , to burst all other than his Christian bonds , and fling himself wholly at the feet of his Saviour . It is not the custom , I believe , to resign Masonic officeswhen death is felt to be approaching . John Rippon" of
, , large heart , " whose blasphemous obsequies I have detailed in my book , both lived and died a Tyler . Nor , as Dr . Carwithin did not resign his Living , could he have been guided by the feeling that a man should not hold an office , the duties of which he could not fulfil . There must have been some very special reason . Will any Freemason tell us what it was 1 I am strucktooby the last
obser-, , vation of your " Notice , "— " The funeral of the lamented deceased took place privately in this city , on Monday ; " it having been just before announced that the Brethren of the Province would go into mourning for the Doctor for six months . What ! John Rippon , the tailor , with 200 of the Brethren following his bier , and Dr . Car-
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
Society , I beg to send you the following , out of several , very eminent opinions , which it has elicited ; and certainly I am ¦ disjiosecl , in consequence , to claim a strong presumption in favour of the supposition above stated . Tlie Deau of Exeter , in a note to me , speaks of the Institution as " A Society which is not only inimical to tho principles of our
Eeligion , but does , in fact , set itself up above it . " In a long " Notice" of my book in the " Church of England Quarterly Eeview , " ( April , 1850 , ) from the pen of the Rev . T . Hartwell Home ( " whose praise is in all the Churches , " ) you may read , " A careful examination of Mr . Trevilian's volume constrains us to deliver it as our deliberate judgment , that he has proved that the
religious principles of Freemasonry can be nothing more than Deism . " "A system which , to say the least of it , is a gross infringement of the purity and spirituality of the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ . " But , above all , the Rector of Buekland , near here , ( whom I hope I shall not offend by characterising him publicly as a most devoted Minister of the Gospeland whose , name I
, enclose for the benefit of enquirers , ) gives me leave to say , that though a Freemason himself of many years standing , he entirely concurs in my views on the Institution , its principles and tendency ; that being the son of au eminent Mason , he has been often solicited to become the Master of a Loclge , but that his conscience could
never permit it ; that , in taking Orders , he saw at once it would not do ; ancl that , in fact , he never knew any one of standing ( as he expresses it ) in the Ministry , who continued to frequent a Masonic Lodge . Now , Dr . Carwithen was a very candid man , open to discussion and to reason , despite his perverted opinions . Aud what more likelythrough-the favour of God—when earthly hopes were on the
, , wane , the futility of earthly friendship made apparent , and the soul unable any longer to derive warmth from " the sparks itself had kindled , " ' —than that he should have wished , at last , to burst all other than his Christian bonds , and fling himself wholly at the feet of his Saviour . It is not the custom , I believe , to resign Masonic officeswhen death is felt to be approaching . John Rippon" of
, , large heart , " whose blasphemous obsequies I have detailed in my book , both lived and died a Tyler . Nor , as Dr . Carwithin did not resign his Living , could he have been guided by the feeling that a man should not hold an office , the duties of which he could not fulfil . There must have been some very special reason . Will any Freemason tell us what it was 1 I am strucktooby the last
obser-, , vation of your " Notice , "— " The funeral of the lamented deceased took place privately in this city , on Monday ; " it having been just before announced that the Brethren of the Province would go into mourning for the Doctor for six months . What ! John Rippon , the tailor , with 200 of the Brethren following his bier , and Dr . Car-