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the rulers of the darkness of this world; againft fpiritual wickednefs in high places.

"Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to ftand.

"Stand therefore with your loins girt about with truth.

"And having on the breastplate of righteous nefs.

"And your feet food with the preparation of the gofpel of peace.

"Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench the fiery darts of the wicked.

"And take the helmet of falvation,

"And the fword of the fpirit, which is the word of God."

CHAPTER IV.

Knights of Malta.

THE following paffages of fcripture are occafionally rehearsed in encampments of Knights of Malta..

Acts xxviii. 1-6. "And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. And the barbarous people fhewed us no little kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, becaufe of the prefent rain, and because of the cold. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of fticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and faftened on his hand. And when the barbarians faw the venomous beaft hang on his

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hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the fea, yet vengeance fuffereth not to live. And he fhook off the beaft into the fire, and felt no harm. Howbeit they looked when he fhould have fwollen, or fallen down dead fuddenly; but after they had looked a great while, and faw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and faid that he was a god."

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St. John xix. 19. "And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

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St. John xx. 24-28. "But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jefus came. The other difciples, therefore, faid unto him, We have feen the Lord. But he faid unto them, Except I fhall fee in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his fide, I will not believe. And after eight days, again his difciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then came Jefus, the doors being fhut, and ftood in the midft, and faid, Peace be unto you. Then faith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands: and reach hither thy hand, and thruft it into my fide; and be not faithlefs, but believing. And Thomas answered, and faid unto him, My Lord, and my God."

CHAPTER V.

THE order of Knights of the Holy Sepulchre was inftituted in the year 1219. year 1219.

Their uniform

was a red crofs, and their oath to defend the fepulchre of Chrift. Upon the extinction of this order, many of them joined the Knights of Malta.

The Knights of Tutons, or Allemagne, wore a white garment with a black cross.

The Knights of Calatrava, a black garment, with a red cross on the breast.

The Knights of Alcantara, a green cross.

The Knights of the Redemption wore a white garment, with a black crofs.

The Knights of Chrift wore a black garment with a double cross.

The Knights of the Mother of Christ, a little red crofs, reflected with gold.

The Knights of Lazarus wore a green cross on the breast.

The Knights of the Star wore a ftar on their

hats.

The Knights of the Band wore a band of three fingers width, faftened on the left shoulder, and brought over the breast, under the right arm.

The Knights of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary wore a collar made of plates of gold and filver, with a picture of the Virgin Mary pendent thereto.

The Knights of St. Michael wore a chain of gold, woven like little fhells, and a picture of St. Michael pendent thereto.

The Knights of St. Stephen wore a black garment, with a red cross.

The Knights of the Holy Ghost wore a dove on the middle of a crofs.

FREEMASON'S MONITOR.

PART FIRST.

BOOK IV.

ON ENCAMPMENTS OF KNIGHTS IN AMERICA.

CHAPTER I.

Grand Encampment of Knights Templars, and the Appendant Orders, for the ftates of Maffachusetts and Rhode-Iland.

A GRAND Convention of Knights Templars was holden in Providence, R. I. on the 6th day of May, A. D. 1805; when the following meafures were proposed, and adopted unanimously, viz.

"Resolved, as the sense of this convention, that the formation and establishment of a grand encampment of knights templars would tend to promote the honour and interests of the orders of knighthood, and of masonry.

66 Resolved, that a committee be appointed to devise and report a form of constitution, explanatory of the principles upon which a grand encampment shall be opened.

"Resolved, that the convention be adjourned until Monday, the 13th instant, then to meet again in Masons' Hall, in Providence."

Monday, 13th May, A. D. 1805.

The convention met, agreeably to adjourn ment, to take into confideration the report of the committee appointed on the fixth inftant, for devifing and preparing a form of conftitution; which being read and amended was unanimoufly approved and adopted.

The convention then proceded to a choice of officers, who were inftalled in ample form. At an affembly of this grand encampment, holden in Bofton, in the month of May, A. D. 1816, it was refolved that three delegates be appointed on the part of this grand encampment to meet a general grand convention to be holden in the city of Philadelphia, or the city of New York, in the month of June, A. D. 1816, for the purpofe of forming a general grand encampment of knights templars for the United States, and a conftitution for the government of the fame ; and the M. E. Thomas Smith Webb, M. E. Henry Fowle, and M. E. John Snow, were appointed accordingly.

The delegates proceeded to the city of NewYork, where a convention affembled confifting of the reprefentatives of nine encampments and

councils.

The convention, after mature deliberation, formed and adopted a conftitution, and opened a general grand encampment of knights templars, and the appendant orders, for the United States.

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