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BEP(F.742.019
11 Oct 1742:11,12,21 (375)
From the Pennsylvania Gazette of September 2. 1742.
Reading the declaration of the Boston ministers, and Mr.
Gilbert Tennent's letter, in your Gazette, no. 713. . .
I. As to the Declaration, &c.6. They condemn singing along
streets and high ways. Parag. 6. a witness ? For, is
there any difference between street-singing and street-
praying.? Mat. 6.5. . .
13. He condemns street singing to be enthusiastical
ostentation and fooleries. Parag. 6.
As to Mr. G. Tennent's letter, &c.
Yea, can there be a clearer evidence of frantick, vain
glorious hypocrisy, and rankest Pharisaism among human
creatures in our world. Is not singing, all one as to sound
a trumpet or pray, in the streets ? Matt.vi.4,5.
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