[870] Ibid., p. 9.
[871] Bentley, op. cit., p. 16.
[872] Ibid., pp. 22 et seq.
[873] Ibid., p. 31. Bentley rarely, if ever, made as generous a reference to Morse from this time on. His resentment toward the chief calumniator of Masonry, as Morse came to be regarded, grew apace.
[874] Discourses, delivered on Public Occasions, Illustrating the Principles, Displaying the Tendency, and Vindicating the Design of Freemasonry. By Thaddeus Mason Harris…. Charlestown, Anno Lucis, 1801.
[875] Harris, op. cit., pp. 51 et seq.
[876] Ibid., Discourses ii, vii, viii, and x, particularly.
[877] This became one of the terms by which Bentley was alluded to.
[878] A Sermon delivered before the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at a Public Installation of Officers of Corinthian Lodge, at Concord, … June 25, 1798. By Jedediah Morse, D. D., minister of the congregation in Charlestown (n. d.).
[879] An Oration, delivered before the Right Worshipful Master and Brethren of St. Peter’s Lodge, at the Episcopal Church in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on the festival of St. John the Baptist; celebrated June 25, 5798. By Worshipful Brother Charles Jackson, p. M., Newburyport, March, A. L. 5799.