ABSTRACT
PUBLIC ESTEEM has always been reputed a crime in the eyes of Malevolence; and VIRTUE and GOODNESS have always been held as declared enemies, by Hypocritical Sanctity and Bigot Zeal. To such impure sources alone can be attributed a very extraordinary Act, lately pronounced against this Venerable Society, by the Synod of the Associate / Brethren, and published in the Scots Magazine for August 1757.
