The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas's Boston Journal

For the MASSACHUSETTS SPY.

Mr. Thomas,

Boston, Sept. 27th, 1774.

Your printing the following extract of a letter from a gentleman of a neighbouring government, to his friend in this, may oblige many, besides your constant reader and humble servant,

C. B.

WITH great pleasure we hear from your metropolis, that a church there, from a deep sense of the great importance of that precept of their master, "Give not that which is holy to the dogs;" having determined that none of that character shall any more eat of the children's bread among them, have therefore drove from their table old Harry's son, the gray betrayer, and intentional murderer of his country. If, as we hope, the other churches should follow the leading example of this very respectable christian Society, they would doubtless act in perfect consistency with their religious character: For if (as an inspired writer has asserted) he that provides not for his own, especially those of his own house, hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel; it must be just and right, yea the bounden duty of every christian church to beware of those dogs, who may foolishly imagine they are appointed over their people to tear them; those sons of Belial, who make a noise like a dog, belching out with their mouths, having words in their lips, who seem so deserted of Heaven, as to wish and endeavour without any great prospect of advantage to themselves, utterly to destroy the dearest rights of those to whom they were under the most sacred obligations of duty and gratitude.

Such an ecclesiastical procedure as this, in concurrence with what the good people of your province may do, when in their just resentment, against the man, who, after so many years carrying their bag with what was therein, has in a most base and sordid manner given them the bag; may, fully justify them, in transferring the office from which he hath fallen by his transgression, to another more worthy that important trust, and leave him to his brother Judas's desperation and execution; this may prove a most happy way of freeing the public from such a sneaking, greedy, snarling, grinning dog, not worth a hanging, and stopping the mouths of other Curs, so that not one dog shall dare wag his tongue against your Israel.