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."

" The truth is, Calvin and Beza, and the French Church, set up such a government and discipline at the Reformation as the state of their affairs would bear ; but they never absolutely condemned Episcopacy, or thought their own model ought to be the rule to other churches. Beza expressly disclaims that, as a false and slanderous imputation in any that should say, "They prescribed their own example to be followed by any other Church, like those ignorant men who think nothing right done but what they do themselves."'