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Article TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 2 of 9 →
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
vilian is borne out by fact or Scripture in his contempt for what we must consider the greatest earthl y blessing that God has vouchsafed to man . As regards the charge against us , that we made a comparison between the Dean of Exeter and John Pym , the slihtest attention to the passage in question will show that
g the remark applied to the reviewer , who thought proper to speak , ex cathedrd , upon a subject of which he could not but be profoundly ignorant , even by his own confession . Mr . Trevilian is astonished at our " gross ignorance " in
saying that every response in the Litany is not offered in the name of the Saviour ; will he be good enough to take up his prayer-book , and tell us what reference there is to the Saviour in the response , " O Lord arise , help us , and deliver us for Thy Name ' s sake ; " or again , " O Lord arise , help us , and deliver vis for Thine Honour ¦?"
Mr . Trevilian is in great glee at having , as he imagines , discovered no less than three contradictory opinions to be held among Masons . We will endeavour to solve his difficulty , though we may remark that , even if true , Masons would not be the only body among whom there existed contradictory opinions on vital points ; but as we do not
pretend to be the exponents of Divine truth , it would not so much signify if our trumpet did give " an uncertain sound . " We will state the apparent contradictions quoted below as briefly as possible .
First , we alloAV that if Masonry led to deism it would be unchristian ; to this it is replied that Dr . Carwithen said , " candidly and p lainly , it is deistical , for there is necessity for a broad basis of worship . " Did Dr . Carwithen say so ? Where is his letter ? We doubt the fact , and we deny the inference attempted to be drawn from the necessity for a
broad basis of worship . Deism is defined to be " the denial of the existence and necessity of any revelation ; " and further , " the professing to acknowledge that the being of a God is the chief article of belief . " Now , as Masons , so far from our denying revelation , the Bible is found open in every Lodge ; and so far from our chief article of belief consisting
in the acknowledgment of the existence of a God , we make obedience to the moral law , and not any theological creed , the condition of admission—and why ? because , as we have said a hundred times , we do not pretend to teach reli gion , and so far from it , the subject is forbidden . We wish to embrace men of all creeds , and to bring them to do , —what ?
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
vilian is borne out by fact or Scripture in his contempt for what we must consider the greatest earthl y blessing that God has vouchsafed to man . As regards the charge against us , that we made a comparison between the Dean of Exeter and John Pym , the slihtest attention to the passage in question will show that
g the remark applied to the reviewer , who thought proper to speak , ex cathedrd , upon a subject of which he could not but be profoundly ignorant , even by his own confession . Mr . Trevilian is astonished at our " gross ignorance " in
saying that every response in the Litany is not offered in the name of the Saviour ; will he be good enough to take up his prayer-book , and tell us what reference there is to the Saviour in the response , " O Lord arise , help us , and deliver us for Thy Name ' s sake ; " or again , " O Lord arise , help us , and deliver vis for Thine Honour ¦?"
Mr . Trevilian is in great glee at having , as he imagines , discovered no less than three contradictory opinions to be held among Masons . We will endeavour to solve his difficulty , though we may remark that , even if true , Masons would not be the only body among whom there existed contradictory opinions on vital points ; but as we do not
pretend to be the exponents of Divine truth , it would not so much signify if our trumpet did give " an uncertain sound . " We will state the apparent contradictions quoted below as briefly as possible .
First , we alloAV that if Masonry led to deism it would be unchristian ; to this it is replied that Dr . Carwithen said , " candidly and p lainly , it is deistical , for there is necessity for a broad basis of worship . " Did Dr . Carwithen say so ? Where is his letter ? We doubt the fact , and we deny the inference attempted to be drawn from the necessity for a
broad basis of worship . Deism is defined to be " the denial of the existence and necessity of any revelation ; " and further , " the professing to acknowledge that the being of a God is the chief article of belief . " Now , as Masons , so far from our denying revelation , the Bible is found open in every Lodge ; and so far from our chief article of belief consisting
in the acknowledgment of the existence of a God , we make obedience to the moral law , and not any theological creed , the condition of admission—and why ? because , as we have said a hundred times , we do not pretend to teach reli gion , and so far from it , the subject is forbidden . We wish to embrace men of all creeds , and to bring them to do , —what ?