The Text Book of Cryptic Masonry: A Manual of Instructions in the Degree of Royal Master, Select Master and Super-excellent Master ...

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Masonic Publishing Company, 1870 - Freemasonry - 94 pages
 

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Page 42 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! how is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary...
Page 20 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Page 19 - And of Zion it shall be said, "This and that man was born in her" : and the Highest himself shall establish her. The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there.
Page 50 - And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
Page 19 - The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Page 13 - I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Page 50 - My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
Page 45 - She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks : among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her...
Page 41 - But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
Page 47 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto the LORD for it : for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

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