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Rh and tell him, This Book is the sole Directory of your conscience, which God has sent you, to which you must submit in all Things. Would not the Indian enquire, How do you know this? If I find it agreeable to the Character of God, I will receive it, but I cannot acknowledge it as a Revelation from God unless it is like him. Should Daniel tell him his Conscience is blinded and cannot judge right— he would naturally reply that he could not then judge at all; and consequently would conclude from Mr Frazer's Principles, that there could be neither Good nor Evil in the World:

Mr Frazer allows the Word of God to be the only Rule to Conscience, but what is to be the Rule whereby a Man must judge whether such and such Opinions are agreeable to that Word or not? One would be tempted to think that the Man of Dunse intended to set up his own Judgment for the Standard here. Suppose a Burger Minister should affirm, that the true Religion presently professed and authorized by the Laws of the Land, means a Religion professed 160 Years ago, and another affirms that it means the Religion professed in this present Year, how shall they settle this point without their Consciences? Every Man's Conscience, whether he will or not, will tell him, that what is past is not present; and when Laws are altered, they are not the same Laws; nor when Religion is altered, it is not the same Religion. And sup-