20 APPENDIX 1. "THE QUALIFICATIONS
OF AN ORANGEMAN"
An Orangeman should have a sincere love and veneration for his
Heavenly Father; a 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 Roman Catholics; 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 those, 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 motives of his actions.
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