We are already above one hundred communicants, and if we can enjoy the benefits of an English schoolmaster sent amongst us, we hope we and our posterity daily to improve, under the happy constitution of the English Church and Government.

We conclude with our hearty prayers to God for the peace of the nation, the enlargement and prosperity of the Church, and a blessing on your pious endeavors for promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and are with profound respect, Rt. Reverend, Rt. Honorable and Venerable,

Your most obedient humble servants,

Isaac Gctons,

Lons Gcioxs jE,rErNB,

ANTnOXY LlSPENAB, PlKRP.E VALLKAU.

[With twenty-two others."" ]

In this act of conformity to the Church of England, the Huguenots followed the sentiments of their own Church -- which from the beginning of the Reformation to this time, had allowed it to be lawful to do so, and condemned those who made any separation, but from the Church of Rome.

Beza, one of the most powerful advocates for the Huguenots, wrote o New York 5ISS. from Archives at Fulham, vol. i, pp. 107-8. (Hawt's).

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to some of them who were discontented in England, conjuring them by all that was good and sacred, not to forsake the communion of the Church of England, for such indifferent rites and ceremonies as were there imposed upon them." Whilst Calvin, the founder of the French Churches, passed an anethema upon those who forsake the communion of orthodox bishops where they are to be had; witness that solemn declaration of his in his book, " De Necessitate Reformandre Ecclesioe : " Talem si nobis exhibeant hierarchiam, in qua sic emineant episcopi, ut Christo subesse non recusent -- ut ab illo tanquam unico Capite pendeant, et ad ipsum referentur -- turn nullo non anathemate dignos fateor, si qui erunt qui non earn reverenter, summaque obedientia observent." " Give us such an hierarchy," says he, " in which bishops preside who are subject to Christ, and Him alone as their Head; and then I will own no curse too bad for him that shall not pay the utmost respect and obedience to such an hierarchy as that."