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Article TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 4 of 34 →
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
It is an anti-Christian act either to set forth in our teaching the name of any other Mediator by which men may be saved , or to teach men that by no name , but by their own merits , or by God ' s uncovenanted mercy , they will obtain pardon and justification . It is not anti-Christian for Christians knowing who their Saviour isand in whom alone
, they trust , to offer up a prayer in which that name does not occur ; most especially when , unless that reservation were made , no such prayer could be made at all . For all will allow that if that name were introduced into the Masonic prayers , neither Jews nor Heathens would join in them . Masonry , then , must be confined to Christians , and to a
limited portion even of them ; for , taking the word to mean all baptised persons , the Unitarian would even then be excluded , if the true Catholic doctrine were put forward in its fulness , and then the great object of Masonry would be lost . What that aim ancl object is Ave will explain hereafter . We really have no patience with a man who brings charges against us under the borrowed guise of a Mason , which the slightest knowledge of the society he pretends to belong to , would haA'e prevented his entertaining for an instant ; but ,
as we hope to enlighten ( not Mr . Trevilian , for that were indeed hopeless , but ) those who are really honest in their apprehensions of Freemasonry , we will proceed to consider the grave charge brought against us in this work , viz ., that we , professing to be the authorised teachers of Divine truth , set forward some other religion than that of Christ for the sake
of enlisting among us the Jew and the infidel . Now , here again Mr . Trevilian has raised a mighty windmill in order that he may demonstrate his prowess to the world by overthrowing it ; but descending from the serial heights of rhodomontade and fiction to the more vulgar regions of truth and common sense , we beg to deny distinctly that
Freemasonry lays any claim to be the medium for conveying Divine Truth , nor do either Jews or Christians so consider it . We know very well that the Church Catholic is the only channel through which teaching can be safely transmitted ; and , however much of traditional truth may have been preserved among Freemasonstaking their oriin as
, g they did from the Jews , and by them diffused among the various mystic sects of the heathen world , no one at the present clay would pretend for an instant that the object of Masonry is to found a religious system . And here we must
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Trevilian On Freemasonry.
It is an anti-Christian act either to set forth in our teaching the name of any other Mediator by which men may be saved , or to teach men that by no name , but by their own merits , or by God ' s uncovenanted mercy , they will obtain pardon and justification . It is not anti-Christian for Christians knowing who their Saviour isand in whom alone
, they trust , to offer up a prayer in which that name does not occur ; most especially when , unless that reservation were made , no such prayer could be made at all . For all will allow that if that name were introduced into the Masonic prayers , neither Jews nor Heathens would join in them . Masonry , then , must be confined to Christians , and to a
limited portion even of them ; for , taking the word to mean all baptised persons , the Unitarian would even then be excluded , if the true Catholic doctrine were put forward in its fulness , and then the great object of Masonry would be lost . What that aim ancl object is Ave will explain hereafter . We really have no patience with a man who brings charges against us under the borrowed guise of a Mason , which the slightest knowledge of the society he pretends to belong to , would haA'e prevented his entertaining for an instant ; but ,
as we hope to enlighten ( not Mr . Trevilian , for that were indeed hopeless , but ) those who are really honest in their apprehensions of Freemasonry , we will proceed to consider the grave charge brought against us in this work , viz ., that we , professing to be the authorised teachers of Divine truth , set forward some other religion than that of Christ for the sake
of enlisting among us the Jew and the infidel . Now , here again Mr . Trevilian has raised a mighty windmill in order that he may demonstrate his prowess to the world by overthrowing it ; but descending from the serial heights of rhodomontade and fiction to the more vulgar regions of truth and common sense , we beg to deny distinctly that
Freemasonry lays any claim to be the medium for conveying Divine Truth , nor do either Jews or Christians so consider it . We know very well that the Church Catholic is the only channel through which teaching can be safely transmitted ; and , however much of traditional truth may have been preserved among Freemasonstaking their oriin as
, g they did from the Jews , and by them diffused among the various mystic sects of the heathen world , no one at the present clay would pretend for an instant that the object of Masonry is to found a religious system . And here we must