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On Freemasonry. Evidences , Doctrines, And Traditions.
latter seduced them from their allegiance by the blandishments of female beauty , and contaminated their principles by intermarriages , which admitted the descendants of Cain to the sacred abodes , polluting them by the introduction of their own abominations , both in religion and morals ; * and then the divine communication was withdrawn .
Bishop Patrick gives the following version of this melancholy deviation from rectitude in the holy race of Seth . ( In Gen . vi . 2 . ) "An Arabian writer saith that the children of Seth had sworn by the blood of Abel , they would never leave the mountainous country which they inhabited , to go down into the valley where the children of Cain lived .
The same author says , that they were inveigled to break this oath by the beauty of Naamah , ( the daughter of Lamech ) , and the music of her brother Jubal . For the Cainites spent their time in feasting , music , dancing and sports ; which allured the children of Seth to come down and marry" with them . Whereby all manner of impurity , impiety , rapine
and violence filled the whole earth , and that with impunity , as Eusebius observes . This Moses here takes notice of , that he might give the reason why the whole posterity of Seth , even those who sprang from that holy man Enoch , ( except Noah and his family ) , were overflown with the deluge , as well as the race of Cain , because they had defiled themselves with their cursed affinity , and thereby were corrupted with their wicked manners . "
This melancholy event did not repress the veneration which had been entertained for high hills ; and after the Flood , the ark of Noah having rested on Ararat , gave a new impulse to the feeling ; because , after a year's confinement and consequent danger , the mountain , by the divine ordinance , proved a place of safety , consecrated by an intercourse
with the Deity . Here the first sacrifice was offered , and a promise of divine protection vouchsafed to the solitary family who were destined to repeople the purified earth . This promise was confirmed by the symbol of a Rainbow , displayed in the sky as a bright vision of peace , and granted to the suppliants on the hihest of hills It impressed them with
g an awful sense of the presence of God , as a celestial phenomenon of great beauty , which they had never before beheld ; and was transmitted to the posterity of the three sons of Noah , as a symbol of peace and protection . Accordingly we find , amongst every people , nation and
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On Freemasonry. Evidences , Doctrines, And Traditions.
latter seduced them from their allegiance by the blandishments of female beauty , and contaminated their principles by intermarriages , which admitted the descendants of Cain to the sacred abodes , polluting them by the introduction of their own abominations , both in religion and morals ; * and then the divine communication was withdrawn .
Bishop Patrick gives the following version of this melancholy deviation from rectitude in the holy race of Seth . ( In Gen . vi . 2 . ) "An Arabian writer saith that the children of Seth had sworn by the blood of Abel , they would never leave the mountainous country which they inhabited , to go down into the valley where the children of Cain lived .
The same author says , that they were inveigled to break this oath by the beauty of Naamah , ( the daughter of Lamech ) , and the music of her brother Jubal . For the Cainites spent their time in feasting , music , dancing and sports ; which allured the children of Seth to come down and marry" with them . Whereby all manner of impurity , impiety , rapine
and violence filled the whole earth , and that with impunity , as Eusebius observes . This Moses here takes notice of , that he might give the reason why the whole posterity of Seth , even those who sprang from that holy man Enoch , ( except Noah and his family ) , were overflown with the deluge , as well as the race of Cain , because they had defiled themselves with their cursed affinity , and thereby were corrupted with their wicked manners . "
This melancholy event did not repress the veneration which had been entertained for high hills ; and after the Flood , the ark of Noah having rested on Ararat , gave a new impulse to the feeling ; because , after a year's confinement and consequent danger , the mountain , by the divine ordinance , proved a place of safety , consecrated by an intercourse
with the Deity . Here the first sacrifice was offered , and a promise of divine protection vouchsafed to the solitary family who were destined to repeople the purified earth . This promise was confirmed by the symbol of a Rainbow , displayed in the sky as a bright vision of peace , and granted to the suppliants on the hihest of hills It impressed them with
g an awful sense of the presence of God , as a celestial phenomenon of great beauty , which they had never before beheld ; and was transmitted to the posterity of the three sons of Noah , as a symbol of peace and protection . Accordingly we find , amongst every people , nation and