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On Freemasonry. Evidences , Doctrines, And Traditions.
here Jehovah communicated personally ancl repeatedly with the , Jewish lawgiver ; whence it was . called " the mount of God , " as Mount Horeb had been also styled , when the De . ity appeared te > Moses in the Burning Bush . Ncny it will be observed that H . oifeb and Sinai vyere two distinct , peaks of the same mou . nta . iii ; : wiiich was , remarkable ;
fo . r sews- ex ; t . ? ao , vdinary manifestations of the almighty power of God , by which the whole lofty precinct was sanctified , and . a . veneration cheated in the . people for "• the highest of hills . " These were , —1 . The fire without heat at the bush , 2 . The , production pf wat . er from the ; d" * y " * ock , by the agency of Moses' Rod 3 The elevation of his , handsby
. , , , ¦ which AmaJek was destroyed . 4 . The awful revelation of the . Jewish la . w , 5 . The miraculous abstinence ; of Moses .. 6 . The de . struetipn of the Decalogue .. A * ftd . 7 ^ Th . e visjpn . d } Elijah ..
. It- will be observed here ,, that although the elders were allowed ., to see God on . this , high pla . ce , as a glorious , light " 3 esting upon a . pavement ; equally glorious , he did . not cond . es , cend t . o „ admit them to be present during his private conferences witli . Moses , in his Lodge ™ as we Masons woulci ; sa . y-. ^ girt abo , ut and concealed by a cloudy canopy , and the l
door tiled , by Joshua . Bishop Patrick in ; Exodus xxiv > *"" y ssySi " Joshua went with him till he entered into the cloud ; and then he staid , as it were , at the door , waiting for his return .- ' The Almighty gave a further token , of his approval of "the highest of bills" for sacred , purposesby conferring on Moses
, a supernatural power when he offered up his prayers with " the Rod pf God" in his hand , from the top of the hill , when the A . malekites were defeated . And Moses removed the public tent or tabernacle of the congregation , which Bertram ( De Repub . Jud , c ., 4 , ) calls Castrorum Prsetori . um , from the camp to the same holhillafter the glory of the
y , Lord had departed from them on account of the idolatry of Aaron ' s molten calf , where the Shekinah again made its . appearance . ; and where the lawgiver went to commune with God , until the tabernacle was completed . Now it would not need an overstrained credulity to acquire , from thesefactsahih and confirmed respectfor the
pre-, , , g , sumed sanctity of such localities as " - the highest of hills . " The habits and instincts of our nature would not be able toresist the impression of a series of evidences which appeared , at once decisive , uniform and unobjectionable . How indeed could the Israelites avoid the conclusion , when they saw with
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On Freemasonry. Evidences , Doctrines, And Traditions.
here Jehovah communicated personally ancl repeatedly with the , Jewish lawgiver ; whence it was . called " the mount of God , " as Mount Horeb had been also styled , when the De . ity appeared te > Moses in the Burning Bush . Ncny it will be observed that H . oifeb and Sinai vyere two distinct , peaks of the same mou . nta . iii ; : wiiich was , remarkable ;
fo . r sews- ex ; t . ? ao , vdinary manifestations of the almighty power of God , by which the whole lofty precinct was sanctified , and . a . veneration cheated in the . people for "• the highest of hills . " These were , —1 . The fire without heat at the bush , 2 . The , production pf wat . er from the ; d" * y " * ock , by the agency of Moses' Rod 3 The elevation of his , handsby
. , , , ¦ which AmaJek was destroyed . 4 . The awful revelation of the . Jewish la . w , 5 . The miraculous abstinence ; of Moses .. 6 . The de . struetipn of the Decalogue .. A * ftd . 7 ^ Th . e visjpn . d } Elijah ..
. It- will be observed here ,, that although the elders were allowed ., to see God on . this , high pla . ce , as a glorious , light " 3 esting upon a . pavement ; equally glorious , he did . not cond . es , cend t . o „ admit them to be present during his private conferences witli . Moses , in his Lodge ™ as we Masons woulci ; sa . y-. ^ girt abo , ut and concealed by a cloudy canopy , and the l
door tiled , by Joshua . Bishop Patrick in ; Exodus xxiv > *"" y ssySi " Joshua went with him till he entered into the cloud ; and then he staid , as it were , at the door , waiting for his return .- ' The Almighty gave a further token , of his approval of "the highest of bills" for sacred , purposesby conferring on Moses
, a supernatural power when he offered up his prayers with " the Rod pf God" in his hand , from the top of the hill , when the A . malekites were defeated . And Moses removed the public tent or tabernacle of the congregation , which Bertram ( De Repub . Jud , c ., 4 , ) calls Castrorum Prsetori . um , from the camp to the same holhillafter the glory of the
y , Lord had departed from them on account of the idolatry of Aaron ' s molten calf , where the Shekinah again made its . appearance . ; and where the lawgiver went to commune with God , until the tabernacle was completed . Now it would not need an overstrained credulity to acquire , from thesefactsahih and confirmed respectfor the
pre-, , , g , sumed sanctity of such localities as " - the highest of hills . " The habits and instincts of our nature would not be able toresist the impression of a series of evidences which appeared , at once decisive , uniform and unobjectionable . How indeed could the Israelites avoid the conclusion , when they saw with