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PG-P.742.049
2 Sep 1742:31,32,33,41 (716)
Mr. Franklin, Reading the declaration of the Boston
ministers, and Mr. Gilbert Tennent's letter, in your
Gazette, Numb. 713, inclines me to desire you to insert the
short following hints upon them in your next.
. . . [5 points.]
6. They condemn singing along streets and high ways.
Parag. 6.
And is not such a practice hypocritical, vain, glorious
Pharisaism, with a witness? For, is there any difference
between street-singing and street-praying? Mat. 6.5.
. . . [3 columns, moving on the Mr. Tennent's letter, 12
points, then]
13. He condemns street-singing to be enthusiastical
ostentation and fooleries. Parag. 6.
Yea, can there be a clearer evidence of a 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. 2,5.
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