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 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 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.
