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THE

ANTIQUITIES

OF

FREE-MASONRY;

COMPRISING

ILLUSTRATIONS OF

THE FIVE GRAND PERIODS OF MASONRY,

FROM THE

CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE DEDICATION

OF KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.

BY GEORGE RGE OLIVER, OL

VICAR OF CLEE IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN; P. G. CHAPLAIN

FOR THE SAME COUNTY; AND DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN

TO THE RIGHT PON LORD KENSINGTON.

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G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER,
AVE-MARIA LANE.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY COX AND BAYLIS, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S-INN FIELDS.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

This volume is laid before the Public, in the present extension and increasing popularity of Free-Masonry, with a view of recommending it as an auxiliary to Religion. The magnitude of our Fraternity, and the importance attached to the proceedings of the Grand Lodge, as a dignified assembly, with His Most Gracious Majesty and our Royal Brethren at its head, make it essentially necessary that Masonry be received in its true and genuine acceptation; as a Society founded on the basis of Religion, which cultivates and enforces the Christian virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity, and the moral duties emanating from them, like rays of light from the meridian sun. If this attempt meet the approbation of my Brethren, I shall probably complete the undertaking at some future time, by laying before them a View of the Two Additional Periods of Masonry, ending with the Advent of Jesus Christ; in which the Science, or its substitute, will be investigated, in all the various forms which it assumed, in every nation and amongst every people of the ancient world.

Great Grimsby, Feb. 17, 1823.

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G. O.

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