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Show [ 24 ] alfo, particular Charges, by which the Servants of his Houfe were to be regulated. Let Mafons ever have thefe Charges engrav'd on their Hearts, and let their Superiors difplay them openly, that all that fee may be reminded of their Duty. Let us live within Compafs, and never pais the pre-fcrib'd Limits by Rioting, Quarrelling, Intemperance, Obicenity, Political or Religious Difputes, l$c. all which tend to the Overthrow of that Harmony which has even been the Cement of the Lodge, and one of the greateil Glories of Mafonry. r^et us walk like upright Men, who fquare their Act/- * ns by the glorious L a w of doing as w e would be done b . And now, Brethren, from the Tabernacle in the Wilderneis, let us direct our View to the glorious Temple -of Salem where the Shechinah defcended in Clouds of Glory at the Dedication thereof by King Solomon, and {ix'd itfclf between the Cherubim in the Holy of Holies, thence delivering it's oraculous Relponfes to the faithful Ifraelites for many Ages.. What Glory muft have redounded to the Mafons concem'd in this Work, who, under the immediate Care and Direction of Heaven, had built a Houfe for the Moft High, w h o m the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain to reflde in! Nor were thofe Mafons excluded a Place in this wondrous Houie, who had fo well trac'd out the Deiigns of the alimighty Architect, and ftill kept in Purfuit of "the Central Glory of the Lodge, where the two Seals conceal one another. T o this Centre Mofes pav'd the W a y , and from hence the Path is open to Excellence; but he rnuft be,* Matter, and well warded too, that can teach it, and he well prepaid that can receive it. Let the Candidate for Mafonry be a Lover of Art, and of undoubted Probity, ap-prov'd for his Humility, not priding himfelf over his Fel- Jow-Creatures for his Endowments, either in Nature, Art, or Fortune ; fome have come poor into the Lodge* yet gone out rich in Mafonry. Thus |