The gems of masonry : emblematic and descriptive (1859)
Sherer, John · Cincinnati : The Author · leaf 25
tl. . .This emblem is a type of the good man when fitted, bydivine grace, for the temple above, having practised the dutiesof a mason, and a christian on earth, and being transformed fromthe depravity of nature to the perfection of grace; a work whichis completed by death, the grand tyler of… … ^ . . As the TRESTLE board of the master achitect contains th€various designs from which the operative workmen learn their re-spective tasks; so does the book of natural and revealed religionprescribe the whole duty of man. In this book, we find preciselythe designs which are to adorn the celestial…
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