Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

200 TOWN'S SPECULATIVE MASONRY.
" Deceived, they fondly thinking to allay
" Their appetite with gust,lnstead of fruit,
" Chew bitter a»hes. w —Par. Lost, b. z. 564.
And what would a Mason that is a Jew, or Mahomedan,
or heathen, say to our author's emblems, and to the
masonic spirit of those who commend the doctrines of the
Bible to the masonic fraternity ? They would laugh at the
one, and scoff at the other. Notwithstanding all this parade
of the emblems of masonry, to show forth the creation,
the apostacy, the deluge, redemption, the Trinity,
&c. &c, Masonry has actually no concern with these subjects,
nor with any thing like them. The pretence that she
has, is like that set forth for her by the Monitor, and Chart,
and Constitutions, in relation to the sciences, hollow as the
grave.
CHAPTER XXXII.
Showing the Heavenly Order of the Masonic Degrees,
which are, and are not Degrees ; also, thai ancient Free
Masonry, and ancient Christianity, are one ; with a concise
method of proving by Free Masonry that a Heathen
is a Christian.
" Though envious mortals vainly try
" On us to cast absurdity,
" We laugh at all their spleen."
Ahiman Aeton,p. 165.
OUR author, in his eighth chapter, gives a most amusing
description of the " moral improvement derived from the
order and succession of the masonic degrees.' 1