not the smallest Idea of a New Testament Church; for in such Churches every Man's Conscience and the Gospel, speaks the same Language. This Description of Conscience, which our Dunse Friend gives us, is a Description of an ill Conscience, which cannot belong to a Society where all the Members are of one Heart and one Soul, and actuated by the same Spirit Christ, the Head of his Church, speaks by his Word to every Man's Conscience; but never, that I read of, commits the Cases of his People's Consciences to Trustees or Vice-gerents. According to Frazer, Christ governs the Officers of the Church; and they govern all the rest of the Members: Hence he acts by Deputation—But, Where does Daniel find this in the New Testament? How much better a Head of Government does it make Christ, to rule in the Officers of his Church than in all the Members?
This Mr Frazer, compares the Relief Church to Noah's Ark; for he does not well know what to compare her to: Now, by the bye, this is not a very bad Comparison; for Noah's Ark was framed by the Appointment of God, and nothing put into it, but what the Almighty commanded; and if the Church of Relief be of this Sort, she is not so very bad, as Frazer would make us believe. This zealous Man, in a Transport, calls the Heavens and the Earth be astonished at so much Impiety, and whatis
