1751 December 8 (Sunday). Bright and Cold. Read Numb. 25. Preach’d a.m. on Mat. 19.6. Patty Pannell din’d here. P.M. read Rom. 15. Preach’d a Sermon I now added to that made on Occasion of my Daughter Elizabeths Baptism upon Mal. 3.17. At the Close of it read from passages in the Boston Gazett or Weekly Journal No 1655.[1]
[1]Evidently Parkman read all or part of a moralizing piece that appeared under the title “From a late Magazine.”