The New Hampshire Gazette

A fresh SERIOUS CALL from the CITY to the COUNTRY,
to join in setting apart some Time, viz. from Seven
o'Clock in the Morning, till Eight, of every Wednesday,
for solemn seeking to God to save us from the National
Judgments we have deserved.

Seek ye the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while
he is near.
Isaiah lv. 6.

Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away
from his fierce Anger, that we perish not?
Jonah iii. 9.

Whoever attentively considers the State of our
public Affairs, and the Signs of the present Time,
will doubtless be pleased with the Fresh Serious Call
of the Citizens of London, to the Inhabitants of the
Country of Great-Britain.

The Distres of our Nation, lately threatned with an Inva-
sion, groaning under the Burthen of the present War, atten-
ded with the Loss of Minorca, and our ill Success in America,
have given a just Alarm to his Majesty, the Parliament,
and Ministry, and all the sensible Part of the Kingdom.

The formidable Conjunction of the great Houses of Bour-
bon and Austria, and other Popish Powers in Europe, aided
by the Empress of Russia, against a Protestant Prince in
Germany, presents a threatning Aspect upon all the Nations
and Churches of the Reformation. And what will be the
End of these Wonders, God only can tell!

The Earth is visibly quaking. Great and important E-
vents are like to be the Issue of the present System of Di-
vine Providence; and perhaps the Liberties of Europe, the
Protestant Religion, and the Safety of Great Britain, and
its Dependencies, were never exposed to more eminent
Danger, than in the present Day.

We, in America, have already very sensibly felt the sha-
king of the Rod of the Almighty, in the Advantage that He
has given our Enemies; by the Defeat of Col. Washing-
ten—the Loss of our Fort on the Ohio—the dreadful O-
verthrow of General Braddock, and his Army:—the horrid
slaughter of all his wounded Men;—the barbarous Murder
of vast Numbers of our Borderers, of which, every Post,
still brings fresh Intelligence;—and of the shocking Terror,
in which the Survivors of the Slaughter of their Neighbours,
who are obliged to get their Bread in the Peril of their Lives
by Reason of the Sword of the Wilderness.—The astonishing
Loss of the important Fort, and Post at Oswego, with a
vast Treasure in Artillery, Shipping, Ammunition and Stores,
attended with the Captivation of about 1800 of our Men,
and the Murder of all the Sick in that Garrison. If we
add to these the laying waste of great Part of these Provin-
ces; the Evacuation of a vast Extent of Territory, within
this Majesty's undoubted Dominions; our Exclusion
from the great Lakes, and entire Loss of the Fur-Trade,
with the Western Indians: If we still add the heavy Pres-
sure that lies upon our northern Counties, by Military Duty,
and the general Load of Taxes which have anticipated our
Funds for Years to come; the Discouragements on our
Husbandry, and the general, tho' necessary Embargo, upon
our Trade; all bear witness that the Hand of God lies heavy upon us.

These are some of the Evils which we in America feel:
And what have we to fear? - I suppress the Answer, lest
some should imagine that I alarm you with groundless Ap-
prehensions, and suggest to our Enemies, the Means to com-
pleat our Ruin. I had rather lead your Attention to the
Causes of all our Miseries, and the Means to remove them.

That the Anger of Heaven is kindled against us, is very
evident! so evident, that 'tis said, the very Indians finding
our People their restless Prey, remark it, and tell their
Captives, "That the God of the Englishmen has forsaken
them! And why are all these great Evils come upon us?
Surely it behoves us, diligently to enquire, and seriously to
lay the Matter to Heart.

Has not our fraudulent Treatment of the Indians, been
one Cause of our Calamities? Has not our scandalous Neg-
lect of their Conversion been another? Would not a few
Thousands charitably bestowed in that Way, have been sa-
ved with compound Interest in this Day? Have not those
Provinces which have done most to save our Credit with the
Natives, and to convert their Souls to Christ, been most re-
markably spared? Is there one Christian Indian that has
imbrued his Hands in our Blood? Nay, have they not fled
from their Pagan Brethren, as their, as well as our Enemies,
and taken Sanctuary among us? Besides these Sins (which
in the strictest Property we call our own) are not most of
the Sins of Great Britain to be found among us? Are any
wanting but what our Poverty forbids? Does not Infidelity
prevail, and Religion begin to grow out of Fashion among us?
Where is the Faith and Purity of our first Reformers? What
is become of the religious Zeal and devout Fervour of the
first Planters in North America? Was ever the Honour of
God less regarded, his Providence less denied, or less de-
pended on, than in this Day? Were our Christian and Pro-
testant Privileges ever less esteemed, and the great Duties of
Piety more neglected? and as a Consequence of all this, what
Period can be assigned wherein there has appeared a more
universal Corruption of the Manners of our People?

While God
been smiting us by our Antichriftian and
Pagan Enemies have we acknowledged his Hand? While
he has been repeating the strokes of his Rod, have we hum-
bled ourselves before Him? Have repented of our national,
personal
offences against Heaven? Have we
hardens?
Matters in which we