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Show c 'i%. >," « t C V w :wn ivrw u^'fx 1 [ 39 3 men, and learned Men, (as it is likely it will) this Ifland will become the Miftrefs of the Earth, for Designing. Drawing and Conducting, and capable to inftrua all other Nations in all Things relating to the R O Y A L ART. [ LECTURE VII. I Formerly told you, that I would give you a Col|e-aion of fome Memorables relating to our Society, which you ought all to be acquainted with. We read ( 2 Chron. ii. 13. ) Hiram; Ring of Tyre, 1 (called there Huram) in his Letter to King Solomon, fays, t\ 1'.have fent a cunning Man, le Huram Abhi_$_ not to d. be tranflated according to the vulgar Greek and Latin, t; Huram, my Father, as if this Archited was King II-l ram's Father $ for his Dcfcription, Ver. 14. refute yy and the Original plainly imports, Huram, of my fa- I thers, viz. the chief Malter-Mafon of m y Father K m g \ Abibalus (whoenlarg'd and beautified the City of 2)r/, || as ancient Histories inform us, whereby the Tyrians at this Time were moft expert in Mafonry) tho' fome I think Hiram the King might call Hiram the Archi- |. tetl Father, as learned and skilful M e n were wont to be called of old Times, or as Jofeph was called the 1 Father of Pharaoh, and as the fame is call'd Solomon's Father, ( 2 Chron. iv. ieT. ) where it is faid, Ghnafah Churam Abhif lammelech Shelemoh. Did Huram, his Father, make to King Solomon. But the Difficulty is over at once, by allowing the Word. Abif to be the Sirname of Hiram the Mafon, p ^ call d A' |