Volume 2

Phoenix Britannicus: being a miscellaneous collection of scarce and curious tracts. Vol. I ... / Collected by J. Morgan.

  • Morgan, Joseph
Date:
1732
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Phoenix Britannicus: being a miscellaneous collection of scarce and curious tracts. Vol. I ... / Collected by J. Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nay, it would be unpardonably injurious to the very E tie nee of that worthy Fraternity, whereof I have theHappinefs of being a Member, to harbour the leaft Diffidence of a kind Con¬ currence from fo beneficent a Community, fo con- fpicuoufly and exemplarily remarkable for their Pronenefs to countenance and aflift their Bre¬ thren, if induftrious, and in any Degree wor¬ thy of Favour. How then can a well-mean¬ ing Brother doubt of a Brotherly Reception ? efpecially one who, while he addrefles them in order to receive in one Hand a Fraternal Bene¬ volence, is no lefs ready, with the other, to re¬ turn fomewhat of an Equivalent? — And fo far I am from looking on it as an ImpoJJibility, that I cannot quite think it even an Improbability, but that as gallant a Lift of my benevolent Brethrens Names may appear, in the Front of my Firft Volume (Patronized by Your Grace) as perfonally did, with Emulation, at our now Right Noble GRAND-MASTER’S late aufpicious INAUGURATION. None knows better than You, My Lord, that the real Characlerijlic of the Society (which is not only fo illuftrioufly adorned with the