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indeed the Outcast and Offal ) of Mankind . But these Monsters can no more effect the Honour of the sage Administrators 0 f the Law , than a prating , noisy , nonsensical Mountebank the skilful Physician ,

or a false Brother our sacred Fraternity ; that sacred Fraternity , whose very Soul and Life is Charity , which is to love and honour all Men , to comfort the feeble minded , to support the weak and infirm to heal the Sickto help the

, , Fatherless and Widow , and cover the Frailties of our Neighbour ; for Charity ( I speak in the Words of Brother Saint Paul ) is kind , not easily provoked , thinketh no Evil . Let us therefore , my dearest Brethren ,

never be easily persuaded to think Evil of anyone , much less of a Brother , if we hear any evil Report of him ; let us according to the Divine Rules of Love and Charity , believe it not , but stifle the Viper in its Birthand admonish our

, Brother ; who , if we do it with a Spirit of Sincerity and brotherl y Love , will thank us ( nothing making Instruction so unacceptable as a haughty , dogmatical Utterance ) so shall we be a Stay and Uonifort to him from malicious and Envious

Tongues , from whose poisonous Effects the best of Men are not sure to be free . 0 my dearest Brethren , let us love one another . This is the sacred advice of

saint John the Divine , that beloved Disci ple of the Holy Jesus , our blessed Master ; for ( says he ) Love is of God , and every one that loveth is born ' of God , and knoweth God : He that loveth not , knoweth not God , for God is Love . If a Man he loveth Godand hatetli

say , Ins Brother , he is a Liar ; for he that loveth not his Brother whom he hath seen , how can he love God whom he hath not seen .

0 may our good and merciful God ever deliver and defend us from these Liars , these Brother-haters , these Sowers of Discord amongst Brethren , these Companions and Abettors of Clumny and Detraction , these Enemies of God and Man . And if any such have alread

y crept in amongst us , thro' the Negligence or Ignorance of the Watchmen upon the W alls , hard is our Lot indeed . Our holy Brother St . Paul , though he suffered

infinate Perils , as he recounts himself yet the Perils among False Brethren were what seemed most to touch his rig hteous Soul ; for most dangerous are a Man ' s Enemies , when they are of his own House .

These , my dearest Brethren , are Thieves and Robbers , and never entered into the Sheepfold by the Door , but climbed up some other way . These make their Belly their God , and their little sordid Interest their Idol ; hut Regnum Ccebrum non est Cibus & Potus . These follow the Brethren

as the Multitude did our great Lord , Master , and Exemplar , for the Loaves and Fishes , and like them would cry Hosanna to day , and to-morrow Crucify , Crucify ¦ They are unworthy Dogs , Animals which are not only to be debarred from eating the Children ' s Bread , but' to be shut out from licking up the Crumbs that fall from their Table . Let these be

ever excluded the Congregation of the Faithful ; let their Names be rased for ever out of the Book M , and be buried in eternal Oblivion , whose Portion will be with Hypocrites , Makebates , Incendiaries , and Spillers of Blood , red black , and purple . And who allunless they

, opportunely repent , will be overtaken by the rigorous Judgments of God for their Falsehoods and Perjuries , as were their Brother Caitiffs , those perfidious Traitors and Liars , Cain , Judas and Ananias . And now , my . Brethren , you of the

higher Class , permit me a few Words , since you are but few ! and these few words I shall speak to you in Riddles , because to you it is given to know those Mysteries which are hidden from the Unworth y . Have you not seen thenmy dearest

, Brethren , that stupendous Bath , filled with most limpid Water , than which no Pure can be purer , of such admirable Mechanism that makes even the greatest Philosopher gaze with Wonder and Astonishment , and is the Subject of the

eternal Contemplation of the wisest Men . Its Form is a Quadrate sublimel y placed on six others , blazing all with celestial Jewels , each angularly supported with four Lions . Here repose our mi ghty King and Queen ( I speak foolishl y , I am not worthy to be of you ) the Kinoshining in his glorious Apparel of transparent incorruptable Gold , beset with