The true principles and precepts of freemasonry, a sermonSpencer & Company, 1878 - 25 pages |
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amongst asked avarice BART Behold Benevolence better Blest BROTHER SIR EDMUND build an house Chaplain of England charity CHARLES JOHN MARTYN Christianity Churchman craft dedicate Deputy Provincial Grand duty emblems excellent helpmate faith Freemasonry teaches Freemasons Fund gathered give glorious glory God's ground helpmate and handmaid HIGH STREET Hiram Abbiff Holy honour Institution Israel king of Tyre LECHMERE Look Lord magnificence manner Masonic body masonic brethren Masonic Lodge Masonry Masons call MELFORD members of society never meet newly-installed Provincial Grand noble numbering old masonic Order Past Grand Chaplain piety and virtue plumb-rule PREACHED IN WORCESTER Prince of Wales principles privileges Provincial Grand Master R. W. BROTHER SIR rectitude relief religion religious or political SERMON Solomon sovereign speak spirit square stone and wood strict Suffolk sure system of morality temple things to-day unto upright V. W. BROTHER widow wisdom WORCESTER CATHEDRAL Worcestershire word worthy
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Page 6 - Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?
Page 6 - And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
Page 5 - Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
Page 24 - ... institution ; so that, when any one is said to be a member of it, the world may know that he is one to whom the burdened heart may pour out its sorrows, to whom distress may prefer its suit, whose hand is guided by justice, and whose heart is expanded by benevolence.
Page 11 - Freemasonry is a peculiar system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.
Page 24 - Institution; so that when a person is said to be a member of it, the world may know that he is one to whom the burdened heart may pour out its sorrows; to whom distress may prefer its suit; whose hand is guided by justice, and whose heart is expanded by benevolence.
Page 12 - ... as in North Carolina, Maryland, and some other parts of America, were in the practice of, gave us considerable pain, and we apprehended was in part the cause of Truth's not prospering amongst them, as otherwise it would, that is, buying and keeping of slaves ; which we could not reconcile with the golden rule of doing unto all men as we would they should do unto us.
Page 21 - ... Pythagoras seems to have established his system on a similar plan, and many other orders of a more recent date have copied their example. Masonry, however, is not only the most ancient, but the most moral institution that ever existed, as every character, figure, and emblem depicted in the lodge, has moral tendency, and serves to inculcate the practice of virtue in all its genuine professors.
Page 23 - Not to be an enthusiast, persecutor, or reviler of religion, not bending towards avarice, injustice, malice, or envy and contempt of our fellow creatures, but giving up every selfish propensity which may tend to injure others, and steering the bark of this life over the rough seas of passion, without quitting the helm of rectitude, is the highest degree of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.
Page 23 - Hence the square teaches us morality ; the level, equality ; and the plumb-rule, justice and uprightness of life and actions ; and thus by square conduct, level steps, and upright actions, we hope, for our Saviour's sake, to ascend to those immortal mansions where the just will assuredly meet with their reward.