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The Revelations Of A Square.
THE REVELATIONS OF A SQUARE .
BY THE REV . GEORGE OLIYER , D . D . CHAPTER THE FOURTH . DR . MANNINGHAM . FROM 1747 TO 1760 .
" She teacheth Temperance and Prudence , Justice and Fortitude , which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in their life . "—SOLOMON . " Thys booke is not for every rude and unconnynge man to see , but to clerkys and very gentylmen that understands gentylnes and scycnce . "—CAXTON ,
" Conscia mens recti fama ? mendacia ridet . "—0 VID . "I HAVE been thinking , sir , " the Square continued ^ "how very extraordinary it is that the French Masons , as intelligence was brought over to this country from time
to time , should have been so blind to the truth , or so ignorant of the legitimate principles of our divine Order , as to have instituted infidel societies in many of their chief cities , and invested them with the name of Masonry ; for such were the various Elus or Elected Masons , as they styled themselves , which about this time were springing up , like
noxious weeds , all over the Continent of Europe . But it is still more strange that any of the English Fraternity should have been so indiscreet as to have admitted their claims to brotherhood . In the year 1747 , one of our members produced in the Lodge a pamphlet which had just made its in Londonas a translation from the French
appearance , , professing to reveal the veritable secrets of the Order , by describing the revised lectures and ceremonies ; and was in fact a catchpenny publication , written to pander to the morbid appetites of the curious , who are ever in search of the means of procuring illegitimate and doubtful intelligence
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Revelations Of A Square.
THE REVELATIONS OF A SQUARE .
BY THE REV . GEORGE OLIYER , D . D . CHAPTER THE FOURTH . DR . MANNINGHAM . FROM 1747 TO 1760 .
" She teacheth Temperance and Prudence , Justice and Fortitude , which are such things as men can have nothing more profitable in their life . "—SOLOMON . " Thys booke is not for every rude and unconnynge man to see , but to clerkys and very gentylmen that understands gentylnes and scycnce . "—CAXTON ,
" Conscia mens recti fama ? mendacia ridet . "—0 VID . "I HAVE been thinking , sir , " the Square continued ^ "how very extraordinary it is that the French Masons , as intelligence was brought over to this country from time
to time , should have been so blind to the truth , or so ignorant of the legitimate principles of our divine Order , as to have instituted infidel societies in many of their chief cities , and invested them with the name of Masonry ; for such were the various Elus or Elected Masons , as they styled themselves , which about this time were springing up , like
noxious weeds , all over the Continent of Europe . But it is still more strange that any of the English Fraternity should have been so indiscreet as to have admitted their claims to brotherhood . In the year 1747 , one of our members produced in the Lodge a pamphlet which had just made its in Londonas a translation from the French
appearance , , professing to reveal the veritable secrets of the Order , by describing the revised lectures and ceremonies ; and was in fact a catchpenny publication , written to pander to the morbid appetites of the curious , who are ever in search of the means of procuring illegitimate and doubtful intelligence