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Rh riental Languages he is fit to teach both the Associate Synods. As for his once being a Shoemaker that is no Reproach. It is as laudable an Employment as a Tent-maker. But whether friend Daniel knows it or not, I can assure him that some Years ago, had all the Black-smiths, Coblers, Weavers, and Taylors been taken out of the Associate Synod, their would have been but a small Number left behind. I do not mention this as any Discredit to these Ministers, but to put Friend Daniel in Mind that Men who have been of other Employments have been very good Preachers of the Gospel, in his own Way. But there is another Clause of a Falshood, which this good Man has printed; namely, that one and another licensed a Cobler. Daniel has certainly not heard that there were three Ministers employed in this Deed, and this Number even in Scotland makes a Presbytery. And I can assure Mr Frazer likewise that there were three Burger Ministers who ordained a Minister in Newcastle, and I do not hear that any Persons found Fault with them; and why might not three Protestant Dissenting Ministers license a Man they found qualified to Preach the Gospel, as well as three Burgers Preachers ordained one. There seems to be as much Reason on the one Side as the other. But who would give Credit to a Person who is disposed to publish such palpable Falshoods to the World. I must now