Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

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the truth, which it were wrong to overlook. The scandal
of some is highest praise; and the secret assault of the adversary
once fairly detected, proves to a certainty where lie
the foundations of truth and of holiness. Having the premises,
to wit, the existence of a spiritual foe, and this conduct
of Free Masonry, the conclusion is irresistible, that
the point laboriously attempted to be undermined, is of
high import
And for the accommodation of some, we will in the argument,
refuse with them and with the Egyptian priests of
Esprit, to believe in the reality of evil angels: we will only
believe there are very bad men, aiming, like Esprit, by
falsehood, insinuated and asserted, to corrupt both male and
female; to break down the barriers of divine revelation for
the enjoyment of the sweet liberty of unsanctified reaspn :
the determined assaults of such men, certainly indicate the
citadel of holiness and of truth. In ail unholy wars there
are feints; but a resolute attack, or a secret mine, are only
made where a principal battery, or a commanding angle of
the fort, may be the reward of the victors. The argument
is irresistible.
"Not too fast: may they not attack weak points; attempt
to enter through a self made breach ?"
The weak points of religious faith, my friend, are no
points at all: the enemy will never be careful about them.
Self made breaches, to some extent, no doubt there are.
But if this be one, that Immanuel, God with us, died and
rose again, it can never be filled up; the builder of the fortress
made it so, and we have only 'to discharge our part
manfully, to fail, if we must fall, in the very breach.
" Christ Jesus, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God; but made himself of no reputation,
and took upon him the form of a servant, and
was made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion
as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross." (Phil, ii. 6—9.)
This is a true and a wonderful mystery, into which the
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