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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 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 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 god of his country should be the motives of his actions.
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