EXPLANATION OF THE FRONTISPIECE. THE oval in the centre is an engraving from an antient painting in the Herculaneum. The figures at the sides and bottom are explained in the Differtation at the end of this volume, which was written to vindicate to some of the $ Author's learned friends the explication he ventured to give of that passage in the book of Revelations which is the subject of the Fifth Discourse. DELIVERED ON PUBLIC OCCASIONS, ILLUSTRATING THE PRINCIPLES, DISPLAYING THE DESIGN, FREE MASONRY, BY THADDEUS MASON HARRIS, PAST GRAND CHAPLAIN TO THE GRAND LODGE, AND CHAPLAIN TO THE GRAND ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER OF MASSACHUSETTS. PRINTED AT CHARLESTOWN, (Copy right secured.) ANNO LUCIS, |