Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

From the Connecticut Courant.

Hint to Religious Men.

LEAVE off that prayer for French success. That a wise governor continues it in his proclamations, is no excuse for you. He has ends to answer which you have not; and besides can take back or erase upon after calculation. To pray for French success is praying for the misery of Europe; and the corruption, moral and political, of your own country. These evils proceed exactly in the ratio of that success; and are as naturally the effects of it, as ravings are of the bite of a mad dog.

Give up also your delusion about the Millennium. It did not commence with the "regeneration" of France. Nor can it be made of an "age of reason." This certainly is a period in which Satan was to be loosed, not bound.--When Paine proclaimed his "rights of man," the kingdom of Satan was at hand. But when weeks were turned into decades; sleep eternal inscribed on the tombs; and a naked girl, for adoration, was placed on the altar; then it was come. And the sons of Belial far and near, though you did not understand them, shouted for joy!--From that time France has been drunk with whoredoms, and the blood of the slain. We too have been made to drink of her blasphemies; and must for a season, drink of her plagues.--The Jews, you see, are not called to Christianity; but Deists to Atheism. Ours are nearly all in.--Dream not then of being in the Millennium, or its dawn.

For your consolation however, Satan is to be bound again. But not by a king with five heads. Nothing so ill happen for good was seen at Patmos. As to the time, it will be known when the event takes place; which is as soon as any prophecy can be measured.

Z.