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Rh all this Impiety? Truly, Reader, it is neither more nor less than the Rights of Conscience, which he calls impious—By this you may easily guess, that he does not know what he is saying. It is a pity but Daniel was at Rome for a Season, there he would see and feel the Plenitude of Church Power over the Consciences of Men.

Mr Frazer has a very droll Observation in his 17th Page; says he, to hold Communion with a Church, with which we cannot sit in Judicatory, is an evident Contradiction— And so it is Daniel; and this supposes that there is no other Judicature, till the coming of Christ, except the whole Church. I must own, I would like this better than an Assembly of Divines. This is the true Presbyterian Church, which the New Testament recommends. But this would destroy Mr Frazer's Hobby-horse: We have some very positive Assertions in Page 29, of the Hobby-horsical Kind. "I assert, says Frazer, that Christ is King of his Church, and hath appointed a particular Form of Government, to be observed therein; and it is that Form of Presbyterial Church Government of Kirk Sessions, in Subordination to Presbyteries, of Presbyteries; to Synods, of Synods, to General Assemblies, which Form of Government has been received and owned by the Church of Scotland, as agreeable to the Word of God." Stop there Daniel—They were only settled as most