THE
QUALIFICATIONS OF AN ORANGEMAN
“An Orangeman should have a sincere love and veneration
for his Heavenly Father; an humble and steadfast faith in Jesus
Christ, the Saviour of mankind, believing in Him as the only
Mediator between God and man. He should cultivate truth and
justice, brotherly kindness and charity, devotion and piety,
concord and unity, and obedience to the laws; his deportment
should be gentle and compassionate, kind and courteous; he should
seek the society of the virtuous, and avoid that of the evil;
he should honour and diligently study the Holy Scriptures, and
make them the rule of his faith and practice; he should love,
uphold, and defend the Protestant religion, and sincerely desire
and endeavour to propagate its doctrines and precepts; he should
strenuously oppose the fatal errors and doctrines of the Church
of Rome, and scrupulously avoid countenancing (by his presence
or otherwise) any act or ceremony of Popish worship; he should,
by all lawful means, resist the ascendancy of that Church, its
encroachments, and the extension of its power, ever abstaining
from all uncharitable words, actions, or sentiments, towards
his Roman Catholic brethren; he should remember to keep holy
the Sabbath day, and attend the public worship of God, and diligently
train up his offspring, and all Under his control, in the fear
of God, and in the Protestant faith; he should never take the
name of God in vain, but abstain from all cursing and profane
language, and use every opportunity of discouraging these, and
all other sinful practices, in others; his conduct should be
guided by wisdom and prudence, and marked by honesty, temperance,
and sobriety; the glory of God and the welfare of man, the honour
of his Sovereign, and the good of his country, should be the
motive of his actions”.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
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