The Antiquities of Free-Masonry: Comprising Illustrations of the Five Grand Periods of Masonry from the Creation of the World to the Dedication of King Solomon's Temple (Classic Reprint)

Stack Annex 063 PREFACE. The objections which have been so unceasingly urged against the institution ofF ree-M asonry, excited in me, some years ago, a serious desire to obviate the general and vague charges of envy and prejudice, by some formal examination of the grounds on which they are founded. Since this duty has been impressed upon my mind, I have preached and printed many sermons in my official capacity of Provincial Grand Chaplain for the county of Lincoln, the tendency of all which has been chiefly directed towards this point. But I find, that while I confine myself to answering peculiar objections, I am only applying a partial remedy to the evil. To stem the torrent which is opposed to ii-. and effectually to divert the course of its stream. is an undertaking of a more broad and extensive nature :and it is only from an exposition of the pun principles of the science, as it actually existed in the primitive ages of the world, that a correct idea of itbeneficial tendency can be conveyed to the mind of those who look upon Masonry as another name for licentiousness and excess.
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