Keppoch song

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land. Reverend gentlemen, denominating
yourselves the reformed clergy of the church
of Scotland, permit the writer, in the name
of his mother, and his maternal ancestors,
in the most respectful manner, to tender
you our grateful thanks, for the liberality
of mind, and candour shown by you, in
your unanimous vote of last year, in support
of the Catholic claims, in which, though
we are not Catholics, we are deeply inte-
rested. We have most deeply suffered by
the misdeeds and injustice of your prede-
cessors. The writer calls upon you, to
shew your right to the title you assume,
by the purity of your lives and sentiments,
and by a stricter regard to ecclesiastical
discipline, and by reformation in your con-
duct, which, the writer is humbly of opi-
nion, still needs mending. It is not enough
to profess, shew your practice, by impli-
menting the obligations of scripture, which
you acknowledge to be your director, and
to which he begs leave to refer you. The
writer hopes he will not have occasion to
appeal to the public against you, in an ec-
clesiastical capacity, and therefore he hopes
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