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Rh believe. Mr Frazers Synods and Councils, and Courts of Christ, are like Uncle Tobys Battles and Circumvallations, which he and Corporal Trim formed in the Garden; which had just as good a Resemblance to the Battle of Namur, and the Siege of Dendermond, as Mr Frazer's Courts of Christ have to an Assembly of Apostles. The honest Captain and Corporal had been used to these Things, and meant no more by them, than to make a Hobby-horse of them; and Mr Frazer has been accustomed to Courts of Christ, and must in the Hobby-horsical Way be pondering them now and then. Synods and Councils, what Mr Frazer call Courts of Christ, are something like Courts Martial, where the Officers have a Power to whip all the private Men in the Regiment, without being, accountable for their Conduct.

But to describe Daniel Frazer's Hobby-horse more particularly, let us look to Page 25 of his Discovery. 1st. He says the Conscience is corrupted, and will not direct Men right. 2dly, It is blinded, and cannot direct them right. 3dly, To follow the Dictates of Conscience, is to deprive the Church of God of a Government. All this, says Daniel, is to loose Men from all Laws human and divine. Now what sort of a Church must this good Man have, when there is not a Conscience in it all. The Matter of fact is, Mr Frazer has