Discourses, Delivered on Public Occasions: Illustrating the Principles, Displaying the Tendency, and Vindicating the Design, of Free MasonryS. Etheridge, 1801 - 348 pages |
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... WHILE Masonry thus aids the cause of vir- tue by giving additional weight to moral ob- ligations ; it promotes public happiness , by enjoining a ready fubmiffion to the whole- fome laws and 50 Religious Character , & c .
... WHILE Masonry thus aids the cause of vir- tue by giving additional weight to moral ob- ligations ; it promotes public happiness , by enjoining a ready fubmiffion to the whole- fome laws and 50 Religious Character , & c .
Page 72
... moral taste is gratified , and the bowels of mercy refreshed : the feaft to which the poor and the afflicted are invited , that their wants may be fupplied and their hearts comforted . So well am I affured of your readiness to every ...
... moral taste is gratified , and the bowels of mercy refreshed : the feaft to which the poor and the afflicted are invited , that their wants may be fupplied and their hearts comforted . So well am I affured of your readiness to every ...
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... moral and divine truths . Affembling ima ges from nature , it fpeaks to the understand- ing by the fenfes . These pleafing illuftra- tions lead us , by an easy procefs , to form the most important , and often times the most fublime ...
... moral and divine truths . Affembling ima ges from nature , it fpeaks to the understand- ing by the fenfes . These pleafing illuftra- tions lead us , by an easy procefs , to form the most important , and often times the most fublime ...
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... MORAL RENOVATION of life our religion enjoins . Would we become " wife unto falvation , " we must " put off the old man , be renewed in the spirit of our minds , and put on the new man which is created in righteousness and true holinefs ...
... MORAL RENOVATION of life our religion enjoins . Would we become " wife unto falvation , " we must " put off the old man , be renewed in the spirit of our minds , and put on the new man which is created in righteousness and true holinefs ...
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... moral darkness of mankind by instruct- ing them in the doctrines of his gospel and by displaying the happy effects of his religion in the purity of their lives and the luftre of their virtues . THERE is great propriety and beauty in the ...
... moral darkness of mankind by instruct- ing them in the doctrines of his gospel and by displaying the happy effects of his religion in the purity of their lives and the luftre of their virtues . THERE is great propriety and beauty in the ...
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Page 86 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Page 160 - And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Page 236 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Page 68 - Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page 155 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Page 113 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded : and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Page 257 - The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the light, that all men through him might believe.
Page 181 - For so is the will of God that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
Page 133 - light fo fhine before men, that they may fee our good works and glorify our Father who is in heaven...
Page 242 - And, like. the bafelefs fabric of a vifion, Leave not a wreck behind ! We are fuch IlufT As dreams are made on, and our Uttle life Is rounded with a deep.