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Show [ 4 3 fens of that Age, viz. Leochares, Srzax, Scopus, and 'jftwotheus. The Defendants of the great Abraham, who taught the Egyptians the Learning of the AJfyrians, being on-ly Sojourners and Shepherds in Egypt, practiced very little of the Architecture except the Building of Tents, till about 8tf 1'ears before their Exodus, when by the o* ver-ruling Hand of Providence they were train'd up to building in Stone and Brick, in order to make them good Mafons before they pofleiVd the promiied Land, then famous for good Mafonry. And during this Peregrination in the Wildernefs of Arabia, the infpired 'Bezaleel and Aholiab erected the rnoft glorious Tabernacle, which proved afterwards the Model of Sokmoh's Temple, according to the Pattern which G O D gave Mofes in the Mount, w h o then became the Guild Nafler-Xfafon of the Lodge of Ifrael, to w :nch he gave wife Charges and Orders, Sec. The Ifraeiites continued to improve in Geometry, and even to exceed the Canaanites 5 for the magnificent Temple of 2)agon, deftroy'd by Sdmpfon and the other nipft noted Stru&ures of the Earth, came infinitely (hort ct the glorious Temple of GO2) at Jerujalem, which was built by the rnoft wife and magnificent King Solo-mn, the Son^of 2)av?d, without the Noife of Workmen's Tools. In this ftupendious Wrork were employed $600 Princes or Maffer-Mafcns to conduct the Work, with Sc,cco Hewers of Stone in the Mountain, and 70,000 Labourers, which, with the Levy of 30,000 under AM-mram to work by Turns with the Sidonians in the fountains of Lebanon, makes the whole Number to a-mount to 183,(500. This rnoft fplendid Temple, to the Amazement of the £orld, was begun and finifh'd at an almoft incredible Months. The Wall that iurrrounded it was 7700 Feet xn Umpafs, and its Courts and Apartments were capable V - |