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ry fpicrfic referejte to zr j nalict-n iri' Eu- j fully the -words of Mr. Kingbave been eri- itope, by (imply and in general, ! "that futjh ? fiedV VThey. will, indeed;' give a fearful "pic i times'and. fnch ffyeVjrs might be ex'pecled in j tore -of ; peorrje, who have dared tody That fome P f the Chlrrfrian world. j there is no God. 1 hey iprocf aim to' the na- Th firi! pflage jl fhall prefent, as a part r Mr. .IJ14 . cx;pu:23tiea or,, the Z 4TU Chapt-r of S:. (Matthew's gofpei principally F the 29th Yrfe. j In regar'J-to ;wbich he ''fays," ' 17 rniri. if the wp.-ds are to h? unJerflood as fpoken mereJ emblerna '! . . 1 . I i 1 . ! . I tir!!v. then the images, muls wfa of , tiop. of .the ejrth, in language i that cannot be miTuiidcrfiood, that ihole vvhoorfakeGcd, wiif, by a ritcuus retribution,1 be lenoun'c.' are fucb "as well knjovfrn to predict (conhlj ' niilv w'vh ihzir conftanr ufe ih many other td by limfrai,d given f'Vr' to their 'hearts,. !ufls, to vcrk iniquity with -r own Lrecdi- . . Events of the French Revolution Onthc 5th of May, 1 78S, (more - than a I year after ih-s appearance I of Mr - Kino's psrts of prophecy. a grt-at d:lfrujoh atd work) the reprefrntatives of the kinpdomof al.n.aii annJiut4;j.o.rci n?nny cr irjoie lawtai ( Trance, then itiled The fthtmbly of the ipowers whi'cIvrulVpn earrh', however bene-. fic:a! any of thern njay be to ths earth ; nJ a tlretdftil leflening j of 'the Jihfty md fplea- I A a .-. -1 1 I nr T -4 I 1 T 1" 1 UI. I. 1 k I M S k 71 I VLe P ! I 4 II 1 111 ' 1 1 Q... c -" ' ' .'t v -; , v. r -; : f-' '" ooJ order and cUil gjvenjme-nf. Thfn : ,yhc nothing can; He expett?d more formi. ' dsMe. Dreadful "mdced musl be a time, (lit. f'idl an ohs is to e;rne)i when i men are --.let loofe upo l c-ch ot'i cr,pbfIdIcd of all their , prefeiJiuipvvem.S)ts and advantages; but HO'e'dr lined -either ;bv lawiand ciyil ovein- m.:, or oy conicirnce anu gooq. principle ; Scorning ttitf "admopscion .land autliority of maintain jciince, and af anl barbarous pars ithole'.who ouht tol bv tns more rriae states General1 commenced their frfJicn, in the ing'i ' palace at ! Verfii!e. On the 17th of June the Chamber of the Tiers Eiat v(tlie ThirJ Eftate, or Cbmmoni) declared ji'ii tfe If a national AllembSyv; ind on the 19th .he members took an 03th not.to feparatc until the conrtituticn ftca?di bei "cftabliilled. On the 28th of the fame! month, the whole body of Nobility and Clergy, at, therfejueft I of their benevolent Sovereign, united in one 1 : ilns daring rcjfaion of the fuprerJi ' V i;u,cr onneworjd," lays a I ear f I . , - n V m ccmn,enlIig on this difcour1 is "riAiag with a viov,ous ftroke, at' t root of ll.homn hanp'ifteii. It is tearifl up the terj; fooBdttioc of l.uman hepe, aU ....,ai,ug crery irue principle rf humaJ e.xcenence. it is .nnihilating the Wy exl ihenee of virtue, by anoihiJanng its motivet . -ions,. itsobligations, nC: its end. Such indeed have been its direful elTecl il he people of France v ho hive adopted thofi drtellablt-ihofe ciiRroclive cpinicri, harfh .iu oecome .piore;; irPclcc and ctue and have committed greatrr enorir.ities, tha pertiapsj tht molt ft. a j exiiied. icio a rp'e that eve Ihetr terrnory has been convene 4 '.i1 '.! .!. vati Ilatiihter-houfe. ard has m,; nued fbch even to the prefent time : 1ti ' find in the Aurora ol this daV, ( Auaofr 1 yo; under the Pan head oi h. 0 M ay. lait, that " rVaricois de' the attention nf rh C'iiY A ' 10 me murciers and a lid thn a no where defoged w"uh bipod .the tiie republic. He lamented, that lie III t ion h?H fn f r -f o n ,1 . I. - . i r: . f . .... nu , uii irccif f , .vorld, ihonf they fliall find too rea dy to increafe 1 th' u:)Herfal uproar.1 At j Ballife. . From ii is perio the ccJnclufioh ef. htjs remarks on the Revels- j ira was adopted, J That tions, Chapter :.vi Cm v s Here, wh' II. Tcrfe 12 and 1 4. he s we maintain due reve rential fear, our interpretations m:A end. e veip. 9- thtmfclucs, when jritcji were allowed fWrs durii,g the firll time defer ined- uiid Irreliiion, var.it'j,; ISiriOU prinripiifa t 'refine men f s ofi'jiiaia.j, laliowed to nrouuee can rightly explain th'e' il certainly fpeak loudy vesj as thofc before have j ilt remark, that it feem-s- Nthinjr, but the Ithey com- to pafs, re it. ind tney w lor themfe (lo'.i. OnJy 1 muiS e j if.'nrfeciition anld the horrid influences of frpsrftition, and of pgriorarice and-of barba- o produce their dire ef napt of .thei period pf r the Vials ; and as7 if, arid la total Avant of a ll ugull, llorer of ! a'tid j inHlapplicatioh of were to be their mifchief' alio, at the latrr'rnd'of this P-riod !" Tn the cOrt- eIufio:i Mr.. King dbferjves, on the finihing aiiemhly with th tn'mniorii; : The firlt act of hcltility againfi the government the at tack. of the. King's troops in the garden cf 1 to hav.e become the inartrcioiy cf its u the Thnillcries took r'lace'on the 12th of thors i' Shortly after 1 .'Dupcnt uttered hi July : and, on 11s attacked, the bloody max- j were placed on the buninc pi infurrcAiun wss i death is oniy1 eternal peep, Gri the'lCih the molt ta c red of do lies," I Gfi the 4th of IS' King V4s proclaimed The Ke rcncli Jibei't ; ardi on the. 1 cth o beptcmber, his rrrlbn w&s ijdrcreed be inviolahle, and the crown of France he tediiaij and ' ii:diifib!e. i On the 6thofOc-j Iert?ed ft, was celebrated in the c-tbed tober, the Iiugs oiards Were murdered : un j der the windows of the placei iand he ard 1 I' ' I. i ! . . , I his Oueen were forcit'y Ivconducled to Pat if, ppoigttd; to receive naked, t:,at amidlt the infults of brutal populace a - there which vvas dejiied ih fi IwU. nutry 1, 1799.. ths!K:ng va ' ftripped cf ""ival, was, by the 12th ot Decern 251b cf (ufie, all his tuiitStit-ris were lufrccd. I a,t llie cities of France j nd, at Lyons', U ifept a csoje piiioner ; and all 1 rrpuojjcans, -trcr inhumanity inurdeMl to September, ihe ChrifuBn arra a.id iibbit were alfo a ho! i fired and a new mode wa adopted of dividing day's and y?ear3, cailc ......... rUw,.ai vciniui. vyn inr 1 1 1 it 0 November,, the feftiv.al of reafon, .-as th of 'aris, and the w ife Wf TS.nmmn., X afte,rrds loft her head on -the fcaffoldY wil 1 oinafe; J.ty. IhJl mber folJ j cd and he iof the myfie'rv.o-f Ihe falfc "Chriiis and: ilbouU b- alto a dr' psdtul :fubverfion of ell dJ tal that as thera rhouSd prop'netS',- fo there It ; . i 'r:-od "overrnTient arid order,, and that men fhould he lei loofe hpon each olher in dcU" aiice of all civil po IctLil reiiruint-'' " f I A V l fc ft ft W W W W U V -' I W "! J 4. ihaody. for thofc who fiiallf live ihtnc?, if thry cs 11 . jrk in this point, cautious reverence ver and juft rule, and of efubjoins 16 me words too It will be fome years prove me 2nly of a mif- 1 fpeak and wruc with andjtear; sckhowledging itbsr I am liable to error, and by no means ipi erenc4:n to prophecy ii but Itill apprc ihendin" mvlelf bokind nbv to ionceal the itrnth where any matter appears to be reveal ed in Holy Scriptuie ; and efpeciatly when thtr lrining an imjprtidir-g dtnunciatiou. to Iigt (if it be. 3 trhth) m-y jwarning and camiuln tut many. their bitcoAiing accejUsry to evil,- Ithis -very. learned, and pious nin, iu a Ct furious, ttmn itjuence, deliver hi3 jt.ition. They wiJi Jsnty, as the m doiii, of that revere vine word, and of that c i ii a o jit be 1 1 a i r. c ( 1 ,r tervaU) Irora the .. made toihrn-alone, ioiri t land iu trtli, be an awful and prevent I'nus did urain i the ordfcri of nobilitv. and art titles td I r.ear five iliodjand of the ir.h&bitarits; - ie armorial, becfins, . freirc itipyrctTtd. On S Dratd the fc ftiv al of an afa, in dtr ifion ; of i tire 4th of Set niber tde King! was refiored I digious worfhip. On the 29th ot aiovembf to liht rty . and, oiv fourteenth,, accepted; xie orator of the Audehts of .the; rif repc of the canftitution, ar.d s asj crowned' by the: i-Hcan fchool came to( the "bar- to. tfTurtf Prefidenfot he !iti nil! r. Uers b I y . On the i -Convention, hnt he and his comrades deV iOfh cfAueuil, 1 702, the n-jiar of the-Thcil- 1 1 Go.a. Thus Dupopt had foon ilieiaboHd ierie atiaclicd and lobbed ; and the brave, but unforiu'ii&ie'J bwifs (guards, anti a great number of th.e. .kiings friends . w ere msltdcrcd ; and',' on'thrji .rhv the Kiuj and his family were olf conuiRd in the Tempi. On the,,i6ih of September maniage was de clared to be a civil contract;-to be-annulled at the p!cafure of either iof the i parlies, in confecjuence of which there swere one hundred and fifiy divorces every month. In Paris a Ibfie. On the 2 iff of September,; reality 1 was aboSifhcd, and France declared a re;ufc) lie- On the i$rb cf January, I79;!!the King' hsd a mccfcTrisJ, and was condemned to lulFer death am), onMbes 2 i fl, in viojlati 011 of humanity, iuflioe, and their, own, law'. the amiable, the virtuous i xiodis the jSix-" teenth, was rriurderrd withrthe mofiT liavage' brutality ; and: rrjurdpred too by. the,sjvtry people who, but a fiiorti time before,! pro u, and imprefHye elo. i claimed him " The TeflorcT iof Fredch liber o'pinion and. his interpre-. ty," and declared iirs.perfon i'ut ioli liaijd before ' us-and our ( olablt; About this . pi ri-'d, JVI. J Hupotii. f. 111 oral of that lonely wif 1 tiki, application otthe di- fi ) t n t dig n i ty , - w hi c h a -retirement ( at in- worid,' which God ' has and by' that j worfiiip in d by which, when joined I to Lu.nan erudition arid to the ' fober. cultivation' di tii? ti n J e r f I a c t! i 11 kT w:i i 1 produce fruit unto life But r.cohclo4tf ; Ihurr.bly acknowlcdnr- inT imvieir wholly f. oi.e al,- and at tOiichVr unworthy, to fneak of 1 . . -1.1 - I -..-- t CI I. I . n 1 ne a w jtji. iuuniii.i y 01 iucir juujccis. iVjy oi ce can he but m'.iiiilUrsal ; it is'i mine only teur Una. and deeply fee Q'aL- and ahoM the fi l . 1 iio lead ihs afpi; awttto the door of the ,pte, ?nd ta re tire. . " I i j This work, as already noticed, was pub fjiflireii in the beginrtuig 'of ihe jear i7S8,and ivis pi obabfy-wfiiicu t'orac-yers before it iwaVodereu to the -'pubiic- For the' 2ratifi-jejiuon-oi the readers of this Almanac, the fKditor; will now recite a lew of ! the Events 4oi iiie FrcAch revoautjua to fhevr how aw- Kincs expire piri 0, 'v;. uup in a deb-ate ots the Jubject of '" Ha hi idling pub lic fchooU (riitsgood old 1 1 firm halving al ready been done away; for the education of you? h, j'ronounced a diicourfe, before the j which w s loudly a pplauded by1 a 11 the mem bers, - excepr two cr three let tne v. iergy, " What !'.'?. fiil this abandoned mifereant. ' Throiies sre overturnea, if Sceptres bro. ken God remain encd realon, will now be Junicienc to thtin di Appear: hiiur and Reafon, tbtfe ought to ln ihe -gods of menj Thefe are rriy Gods ' Admire- nature-j-culfivate reafon. Ard yoiij 'LegiflniuVes, if you defire .that the. French people fhould be sppy.1 horrible delulion H ::i3ke haftc to "propag3teu thefe (principt, and to teach them in your chcjbls, inflead of thofc fapatical " principles wriich have hitherto beetJ -taught, i For myfeff J hooeffly ayotsr 10 the Convention, 1 aia' an and yet the Alters of A lintife breath 1 of enlioht. ; . i i 1. . o. make thti fatisfaaicn of beholdinVth effects of hisUt- bors on the rifing generation ; and was si-? damoliflicd-r-fftr the ciarchcVwere indiicx i miniiiely robbed, and either wholly (huV up, or prophaned by this b;afnhemoiis .worfliip of naked harlots, vt ho petfonated the god I defs of , reafon. The Miri.'iers hi UcligicnJ a n d t h t$ f e w h o 'a t b e r i d t o' t h e m ; 1 w c r c e : 1 1 , e A banifhed, or " n.urdei ed daily throughout! France, and their propeity cor'fifcated.i Mi- ny other even ts, that are as flrongly mafkedi by Irreligion, Vamtyj and a tTotl vyantj ofall ferious pi inciplc, ard a mifftpplici tion 'of the refinements of cv'izatiiii,V might be! brought forward ; but;5 the Editor liat PoH iLer room, nor iriclination,' to detail ,thfmj PJe will, tfjerefore, cooclude this article v. 1 a tranfiation of fome' batinyiines, whi were quoted by Ltnierios, in the) year 16 1 1 and which,' he lays,1 cre vjrjttsn by a Pt itellaTit Advocate of therparJiament of Pai htty years nelore that tinie ; ' 1 or rather he adds, " by ah' KfpcI, who djdated the to I him ,:: '.; V, tlV , In the dsrk volume of refifilefs fate, AVhat changes menace vretchtd Gallii1 '1 .4u..'-'';3.tte : : --H-f ' ; ".' '-.-- ' i '; 1 . in enc, one JuckleU, yet approaching i The :Rorrj3n Pontiff's arrogated power ; The'mafs itVif : the Priefls. a Acred t8i i Who eaclr tjtne honoured rite with 'ztl mainiain ; , I " i . i- I . I ! Weak mortals, roiled to the empyrcah Gcds that man's bafe and wmrheA CuUrW -; .. "ow,,;. - -v!K : .: ;.? - 1 Powers' that the foul in fiavifii ift tV Klt I Debale the npble nVtur- of mankind ; . i With their own phahScmstfcare baa gne . rr.11; i rrrill -1 - ' And every faay except theif owpdete'iv Ifcefe, whiifb JStebnal 1 vsV ice rulM '..!'.-. i. :t 1 - :. . t r : ; - . ti -t .) s
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