Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-09-08
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I leathen.
Is. Thou sellest thy people for nought
md takest no money for them.
IA. Thou makest US to be rebuked OF
our neighbors, to be laughed to scorn,
md had in derision of them that arc
round about US.
Is. Thou makest US to be by.word
among the heathen, and that the people
shake their heads at us
Is. My confusion is daily before me,
and the shame of my face hath covered
me, sc.
would give Mr., Madison credit for
choosing the ninth day OF the msntb tor
his fast, if l could suppose he had thus
intended to delineate the progress OF our
foolish and wicked war, in due humlil-
ton before the altar of GOD But IL
is not to be supposed. that the authors
of war, occasioned by the suppression
of truth, and the PRONUNCIATION OF false
hood, would thus depict the judgments
of heaven, which are SO justly merited
Neither can it be supposed that while
they were prophesying, that all Canasa
would be looked into submission, on the
first appearan, e of Hull's proclamation;
that we had only to SIT down TO general
Porter's well furnished table. & instead
of sword and famine, enjoy war feast
in safety and while they are still hull OF
vain pfopbecyings, they would have
chosen the ninth day OF the month fora
fast, if they had known that on that day
will be read, the appointed Lesson from
the XIVth chapter of jeremiah, OF which
the following is all extract.
TABLE OF LESSONS FOR SEPTEMBER,
(See Common Prayer Book
IXth Day
FIRST LEsSoN-JEREMIAHX XIV.
10 Thus saith The LORD unto this
people, Thus have they loved to wander,
they have not ref, aimed their feet, there
fore the LORD doth not accept them;
ne will now remember their lnlquity,
and visit their sins.
II. Then said the LORD unto me,
Pray not for tits people for their good
ls.> Hhen they Fast, | will not hear
Their cry and when trey offer burn
Offering. and al oblaton, | will not &C
cept them but l will consume them by
the sword, and blythe famine, and by the
pestileDce.
10. Then said |, All, LORD Con be-
,old the prophets say unto them, Ye
shall not see the SWORD, neither shall We
lave famine but qvil glue you assured
Peace in this place
IA. Then the LORD said unto me,
The prophets prophecy LIES in my
name: | sent them not. neither have /
commanded them, neither spakc MT"
them they prophecy unto you false
vision and divina.ion, ard Mng Of
nought, and THE DECEIT OF THEIR
HEART
IS. Therefore thus saith the LORD
concerning the prophets that prophecy
in my name, and | sent them not, ye,
they say, Sword md famine shall no, be
in this land BY sword and famine
shall these prophets be consumed, &c.
Hear. o ye aGthors of an unnecessary,
an unjust, 4utcked, and especially as it
relates to The Innocent Canadians a cru
Ell War-Hear * tremble! Truth.
p S. The above extracts are so we'll
adapted to the case, and arc such heart.
searching truths, that unless you, MIR
Editor, will look at the original, and
vouch for the accuracy of the copy, your
readers (those l mean who are no. we'll
acquainted with the Bible) may think
that they have been composed tor the
OCCASION.
~ The Extracts, quoted in the pre-
ceding communication as part at the
Service assigned by the Protestant Epls-
copai Church for the ninth day Ut SEP
'em6er. have been compared with, and
corrected by, the originals.
SALT TAx-Having given our
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