Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-05-28
CJ,micles Of King TJomas Chapter x.


France gave king Thomas, all the country which eh
hetw the great Nliippi and the wetern ocean
and this he did pretending that Thomas had found favor
| in his fight.
matter the king Of France thirty millions ckess of fl
the price and he fad this will do that my eyes
! may fee no blood.
S. Now this country was goodly country and there was
IN it mountain Of fold rockia and the length of the
mountain houand four hundred and forty urongs
and the breadth thereof wa. three hundred and xy ons
YEA 1t larger than Carriers mountain in which the
king had in days pait fought refuge.
4. And ii came to pals that Thomas took council W m
the great and MOBILES of Virginia how he Goud atsfy
the people for this waite Of ty millions of ihekeis of FL
s. And they counlelled him to make an image thereof
and to command the multitude fall down and worfnp
Louiana which Thomas the king hath iet up.
g. And Thomas ihewed unto the people all the country
from the great river Mipp the going down of the
fun and all the kingdoms thereof and laid all theie will
give you and your children forever, if you will iai
down and worihip the image Louana which have Get
up
T. Now there in the nation a certain William, fur
named Duane, who lied from prion and from icourging
the other fde of the great ea which called the Allan
tic, and this William regned in the heart Of king Thomas
cauied him to do whatever ieemed good in his fight
g. And in the frit month William made proclamation
unto all the people tang the 18th day the th month
We ha aembe thoug hou all the land and ng praes UNI
to Thomas king, and fail down and worp the image
Lomiiana which Thomas the king hath ie up
And Abraham OF the tribe of Jonathan made proca-
nation to the people thereof aud ordered them gather
together the 18th day OF the 5th month the city
Hartford to worfhip the image.
10. Now this time all the magistrates and judges and
councillors had together the city of Hartford de-
cree Jutce and judgment through the land.
H. And 10 happened in old tunes that when the ons
OF God came together, Lo Satan alto among them.
IL. And thoe of the tribe of Jonathan who will
ling to worfhp the image met together about the 18th hour
at the rion and prepared the temple bow down
to Thomas their king
49, And the number of tboie who anembled fix
hundred and teven, and no more
a. And one the LEADERS 10 round on the multitude,
and imote his brea and fad, here many hundred
who do not know their right hand their left and al,
much cattle.
Is. And the of their going forth from the priion
the temple after this FORT and they forth
of every living thing that ereepeth upon the face of the
whole earth At the dnce of five cubits they from
each other, 70 that they reached from the pon
the udgme2t hail. & they looked if they would have top
ped but they pafed
10 band OF folders went before, and there many
nirunents of mue and they pped through the ree of the
city and land to the people come let go up and worhp
the image which Thomas the king hath iet up.
IL AS they paed by the north temple they wagged their
heads and revived and there with them certain Dam
iel furnamed iIden who ad, that could delroy this
temple as have delroyed the temple in the land of
Jonathan.
fad within himelf Lo thee years have come feek
ing oftice and have found noneAnd moreover when /
looked that houd be made chief ruler the land Lo here
am at the head of this gangand be,des the fun doth
fhine nor my thadow appear and he was iorrowful
H. There alto Ala who faid rich and ncreaied
" goods cthat We made Judge the land of Jona-
thanthen would break every yoke and let the oppreded
go free.
And when he looked on the multitude he cried out
and fad my bowels yearn oyer them--have not attributed
my goods feed the poor Have cauied the hear, of
the widow and the fathere leap for joy and has the
being of thoie ready to perth come upon me j!
H.. by he
orey amazed and ad iurey this uttereth range
thngsls not this Ala, the lawyer from the land of Nor
wch who bndeth heavy burdens but will not touch them
with of his fingers And aniwered him word.
%. Now of theie fix hundred and even, there fome
of every Kindred nation and tongue and of barbarans
few--od men and boys and man knew wheuce they
came nevertheless they all cried with voice, 1--WE will
rejoice"
%. There alto with them who fled from the
mics of land and brough, with him the bag; and
who looked on him, faid is this Judas :
q. In the front of the ranks there certain preft
who poleed of evil iprt for many years and he
drew nigh the temple he looked up and remembered how
of old time betrayed his Matter and he greved in
ipr yet he repented not hanged hmlelf but ad
alto viii rejoice"
Is. There lkewfe in the croud few who had join
ed hemfeves the Lord by protecting him before
and when they aw the pre and the and the ref of
the multitude they fad, each hime how do
this thing Howbeit Satan rebuked them and they faid
alto vii rejoice"
26 Aud they all entered the temple, and full and
OF the devcut women there
81 And the great and the mobiles took the chief eats
in the ynagoe they did in the third month of the
year before the CRY OF New Haven but joeph
and they whit not what had become Of him.
3D. And the pet looked to the fouth wall of the temple
and there appeared him the hand writing of
man, on the wall and the writing sthus-IEkEl (which
is thus interpreted, thou weighed in balance and
found wanting, and he rembed, and his knees imote aganf
each other yet he bowed mef the image which Thom-
the king had iet up.
md naf when who nor of the fef1
looked around hoie who took the uppermo eats, he
iad verify there piritual wickednefs in high places.
go And the prei prayed aid Oh we twenty gods hear
and enable to bow down and worihip the mageand
he alto cried Oh King live foreverand the multitude iad
Amen--io be it.
ST. Then Abraham the orator, roe in the midft of the
congregation and ad chooe we this day whom will ierve
the God of your fathers Thomas the king and they ad
Thomas the king will ierve and him only will wor-
fhp to the god of fathers what has be-
come of himAnd he fad them we have all well iaid