one of my favorites > the earliest known anti-masonic document was a leaflet which was printed in 1698 by a presbyterian minister who was named winter. it reads: > to all godly people, in the citie of london. > having thought it needful to warn you of the mischiefs and evils practiced in the sight of god by those called freed masons, i say take care lest their ceremonies and secret swearings take hold of you; and be wary that none cause you to err from godliness. for this devilish sect of men are meeters in secret which swear against all without ther following. they are the anti christ which was to come leading men from fear of god. for how should men meet in secret places and with secret signs taking care that none observed them to do the work of god; are not these the ways of evil-doers? > knowing how that god observeth privilly them that sit in darkness they shall be smitten and the secrets of their hearts layed bare. mingle not among this corrupt people lest you be found so at the world's conflagration.
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