Excerpt from The Free Mason Examin'd, or the World Brought Out of Darkness Into Light: Being an Authentick Account of All the Secrets of the Antient Society of Free-Mason's Which Have Been Handed Down by Oral Tradition Only, From the Institution, to the Present Time

The Reader will wonder then by what means I obtain'd the Secrets, havmg never been initiated, and for my own Part, I am surpriz'd they were never made publick before, having pass'd for so many lenturies, through so many Countries, Languages. Sects, and Parties, But however. As they never were, I shall no longer suspend the Reader's Curiosity, who will now have a fair Opportunity of being as good a Mason as the best, by Time, Patience, and his own Industry, for without a close Application, he cannot be suffi ciently expert, to pass an Examination before his Ad mission into a Lodge.

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