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THE

MAN of DUNSE, &c.

I Happened lately to see a small Pamphlet, entitled a Discovery of the Sinfulness of some Principles of the Church of Relief, signed Daniel Frazer. The Title raised my Curiosity, and I began to read on Purpose to find some of those sinful Principles which the Title promised to discover. But the Pamphlet might as well have been entitled, a Discovery of the Philosopher's Stone; for after reading it twice over as carefully as I was able, I could only discover that Daniel Frazer was exceedingly angry, and for that reason was disposed to abuse Mr Monteith, and to pervert a great many passages of Holy Scripture.

This modest Writer informs his Reader in the Beginning of his Performance, that he has no Occasion to make any Apology for publishing those Secrets which he had discovered by his Connection with the Relief Church; yet one would think here was some Occasion for an Apology, when he was designed to publish so much abuse against Mr Monteith, and the Holy Scriptures. There does not appear to have been any moral Necessity for Mr. Frazer's publishing this Pamphlet; unless