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Show tain every Thing without any other Merit? Let thefe .; for ever be kept out, and only let the 5ood Men, and true, the Lovers of Art and Vertue be admitted; and^ fuch we will receive with, open Arras, 2nd fuch only. • , Fellow Crafts, There are fome Things that I muft in J a particular Manner recommend to you ; Firft, That, as ye profefs youtielves Men, ye may never be found acting as Women. Let not the Follies of the Tea-table be attributed to you, fuch as Gbffiping ; and vain Tattling, making bold with the Characters oi\ your Neighbours, and fcandalizing them behind.their Backs. But how much more muft I charge you to avoid! this in relation to your Brethren! H o w lad a Thing; 3 would it be to find any of you guilty herein! The Confluence would be, Exclufion from F R E E M A S O N R Y for • ever, and your Names recorded witfr Infamy andDif- • grace to all fucceeding Ales.. The next Thing that l have^to recommend to ycu^. \ as naturaly arifing from the Grand Principle of Brother- - " ly Love, is, That you will, to the utmoft of your Power, i endeavour to promote one, another'sTriterefts; both temporal, as to this World, and' lpiritual, as to the World to come, by recommending the Practice of true'Vertue. to each other. And, that the Principles of Vertue may. be the better fix'd in your Minds, I would advifc you,, with all Expedition, to purfue the Knowledge' of. t he Craft, and endeavour to become perfect therein, - You cannot plead the Want of' Opportunities: And, indeed,, I mutt declare to you, that there is no legal Excufeto be offered for Ignorance in the Craft: The Vertue of Tern- • perancc I have before offered to you 5 And' I fhali only KKntion to you here, That whoever is intoxicated with i Liquor, for the Time, ccafes to be rational, and of Con~- fequence becomes a Brute, and fo not fit to be admitted! into the Company of F R E I M A S © K s.. E'j- DECTURET |