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NYGWPB.770.027
2 Apr 1770:33 (1422)
Mr. Parker, the malevolence of the Tory party against Capt.
McDougall is sufficiently notorious to prevent us from being
surprized at any common methods to destroy his reputation,
or to misrepresent the cause for which he suffers. But to
burlesque the sacred writings, in order to ridicule him and
his friends, is a pitch of profaneness and blasphemy to
which I had hoped the most abandon'd of the faction was not
yet arrived. It was therefore with a degree of horror not
to be expressed, that I read a most infamous profanation of
the 45th psalm published in Mr. Holt's last paper, composed
with a view of representing Capt. McDougall's visitors as
having sung that psalm in the place of his confinement. . .
[12 lines] *The truth is, that a number of young persons of
a religious turn of mind, paying a visit to their friend in
prison, spent part of their time in singing a psalm (not the
45th) with the devotion suitable to the solemn transaction.
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