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NHG-P.764.024
13 Jul 1764:33 (406)
A volume of news-papers is a history, and may be properly
called A Book of Knowledge; for it partly shews us what
mankind is, and what they will be.]
(From the Massachusetts Gazette, and Boston News Letter of
June 14 last)
It was far from our intention to give any cause for
disputation when we inserted the few lines of poetry in our
last: But a contrast having since been published, we find
replies come fast upon us: The five following are the first
received; and only these will have a place.
Boston June 12 1764.
Rail on, vile Aetheist; let your tongue blaspheme;
Let God and Whitefield be the sacred marks
Of your unhallowed rage; exhaust the stores
Of malice, scorne, revenge and spite infernal:
Raise ev'ry fiend from hell's tremendous shade,
And join with them in concert, to blaspheme
Your maker's name and Whitefield's reputation:
. . . [21 more lines, signed] H. P.
The lines here referred to, printed in Fleet's Evening Post
yesterday, under the title of A Contrast, are a vile parody
of those in the Massachusetts Gazette of June 7, (which
breathe a truly christian spirit) addressed to the Rev. Mr.
Whitefield on his departure.
TO THE AUTHOR OF THE CONTRAST, in the Evening Post.
Ungen'rous bard! Th' hast shot thy bolt in haste,
Baneful thy muse, and of infernal cast;
You foul the air, that did inspire thy breath--
It smells of brimstone, and portends thy death.
. . . [6 more lines] Farewell.
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