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    Article THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. ← Page 6 of 6
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The Freemasons' Repository.

mantled the light to shine out of darkness , hath shined m your hearts to o-ive the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ . 't It is the Word of the Gospel , which is . best able to build you up ; to cement and join you together as Christians and masonic brethren ; to strengthen and increase in you the knowledge of God , and of spiritual things ; to confirm and establish your confidence in the Divine promisesand to purify and refine the love of

, God and . your fellow creatures . It is by the sacred contents of your Bible , that your faith must be regulated ; it is in the Bible that you must look for the objects of your Plope . There also you will find the most transcendent instances of Charity ; the brig htest examples to animate your zeal , and the strongest inducements to the practice of thisand even- other virtue . I must repeat it—JESUS CHRIST IS THE

, FOUNDATION . " Other foundation can no man lay . " And these three leading graces of his religion—faith , hope , and charity—are the keystone oi ' that spiritual fabric , whose maker and builder ( with the willing co-operation of his free , rational creatures ) is God . 'AsFaitb is the measure of ourfear and love ofthe Supreme Being ; as Hope exercises itself in the confident expectation of the promised

rewards of well doing in a . future state ; so Charity is that virtue and disposition of the soul , by which we afford the best possible proof ofthe sincerity of all our religious professions , in an affectionate , tender , and lively . solicitude for the comfort and happiness of our species . " If any man say , I love God , and hateth his brother , he is a liar . " ! And it is emphatically said of all those , who gladly contribute to the

wants and necessities of the poor , that in so doing they lay up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come . ' § ' Carefully tile your hearts , then , to the utter exclusion of that crowd of rude and boisterous assailants , which is ever pressing upon yon . Hatred , variance , emulations , wrath , strife , seditions , heresies , envyings , drunkenness , revellings—the } ' must all be ever peremptorily repelled , and rejected . In society like this , ye-can in no wise obtain " an inheritance with all them that are sanctified . " Your

associates , your inmates must be love , joy , peace , long-suffering , gentleness , goodness , faith , meekness , temperance . These , and such as these , can alone introduce you into those blissful mansions—into that heavenly lodge , towards which we anxiously look with meek and steady eye ; where the Almighty himself eternally sits as Grand Master ; and for admission into which , were it not for the light of the glorious gospel of Christ that hath shone upon us ( thanks be to God for his boundless mercies !) we—brothers , free and accepted masons , Were but poor , bewildered , blind candidates . *

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Untitled Article 1
A BRIEF MEMOIR OF MASONICUS. Article 2
PARK'S TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Article 3
CHARACTER OF GENERAL CLAIRFAIT. Article 5
DURING THE CONFINEMENT OF LOUIS XVI. KING OF FRANCE. Article 6
AN HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. Article 12
ANECDOTES. Article 15
THE HISTORY OF MADAME AND MONSIEUR C-. Article 16
CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF A DUMB PHILOSOPHER. Article 20
THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. JOHN PALMER, Article 27
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 35
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 41
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 47
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 51
POETRY. Article 57
PARLIAMENT OF IRELAND. Article 59
OBITUARY. Article 61
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mantled the light to shine out of darkness , hath shined m your hearts to o-ive the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ . 't It is the Word of the Gospel , which is . best able to build you up ; to cement and join you together as Christians and masonic brethren ; to strengthen and increase in you the knowledge of God , and of spiritual things ; to confirm and establish your confidence in the Divine promisesand to purify and refine the love of

, God and . your fellow creatures . It is by the sacred contents of your Bible , that your faith must be regulated ; it is in the Bible that you must look for the objects of your Plope . There also you will find the most transcendent instances of Charity ; the brig htest examples to animate your zeal , and the strongest inducements to the practice of thisand even- other virtue . I must repeat it—JESUS CHRIST IS THE

, FOUNDATION . " Other foundation can no man lay . " And these three leading graces of his religion—faith , hope , and charity—are the keystone oi ' that spiritual fabric , whose maker and builder ( with the willing co-operation of his free , rational creatures ) is God . 'AsFaitb is the measure of ourfear and love ofthe Supreme Being ; as Hope exercises itself in the confident expectation of the promised

rewards of well doing in a . future state ; so Charity is that virtue and disposition of the soul , by which we afford the best possible proof ofthe sincerity of all our religious professions , in an affectionate , tender , and lively . solicitude for the comfort and happiness of our species . " If any man say , I love God , and hateth his brother , he is a liar . " ! And it is emphatically said of all those , who gladly contribute to the

wants and necessities of the poor , that in so doing they lay up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come . ' § ' Carefully tile your hearts , then , to the utter exclusion of that crowd of rude and boisterous assailants , which is ever pressing upon yon . Hatred , variance , emulations , wrath , strife , seditions , heresies , envyings , drunkenness , revellings—the } ' must all be ever peremptorily repelled , and rejected . In society like this , ye-can in no wise obtain " an inheritance with all them that are sanctified . " Your

associates , your inmates must be love , joy , peace , long-suffering , gentleness , goodness , faith , meekness , temperance . These , and such as these , can alone introduce you into those blissful mansions—into that heavenly lodge , towards which we anxiously look with meek and steady eye ; where the Almighty himself eternally sits as Grand Master ; and for admission into which , were it not for the light of the glorious gospel of Christ that hath shone upon us ( thanks be to God for his boundless mercies !) we—brothers , free and accepted masons , Were but poor , bewildered , blind candidates . *

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