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Show t * i ofreceiving 300,000 People. It fu;l 14^3 Columns,.and* 2^09 Pillaftersof Parian Marble, with glorious Capital^ . !lt and about 2246Windows. Thcfc,with the rnoft gorge- •^ ous andcoftly Decorations within, together with the con* :f; venicnt and lovely Apartments for the Kings, the PritH ''I ces and Priefts, &e. mafia us juftrV efteem it, by far the fl fincft Piece of M A S O N R Y upon Earth, and ;he chief. '( Wonder of the World. This glorious Edifice, thus built under the Care and ! ti Direction of Heaven (King Solomon being Grand-Matter of the Lodge at fferifalem and the-inipired Hiram Auif A Matter of the W ork) became the Wonder of-all Travel* - r lers 3 by which, as by the rnoft perfect Pattern, they cor- :: reefed the Architecture of their o w n Countries upon their " 3:: Return, and improved M A S O N R Y in all the neighbouring ' 19 Nations. The Kings, Princes and Potentates becoming j Grand-Matters each in his own Territory, many'glorious -• Fabricks were erected, of w h i c h iome Veftiges ftill re- - , maining, declare their Magnificence. But neither the * j itupendous Walls, Temples and Palaces erected by-Nsu • buchadnezzar at 'Babylon, the Temple of Itiana at E* phefus, nor all the rnoft famous Edifices in Afia, Egypt} , ; Greece, or Rome, in the Perfection of M A S O N R Y , , ( could ever compare with the holy, .charming Temple of " , G 0 Z > a t Jerufakm. In 41/5 Years after the ftrri-fPiing of this Temple,' it was . deftroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, King of Ajfy^ia, and the- • Remainder of the ffe-^c:rcarried Captive to Babylon 5 bat upon their Return; under the Reign of the great Cyri:<: . they built another Temple, commonly called the Temple of Zorobabel, which, tho" a itapendious-Eabrick, cams infinitely fhort of the ffft. Many Ages- after ^which, Herod built a third Temple^ which was erected and Tir.r-ftied in 43 Years With very great Magnificence, whick 1 Temple was afterwards burnt by the factious *jfeu% upon i the taking thereof by Tjtitts Vtfpafim. After .the., creating the Temple of Solomon, bat more i C 3 - c.ipecially / |