Roux very justly observes, (in the above mentioned memorial) " that if he is not mistaken, the true principles of the Independent are expressly condemned in our discipline," As to the second, he says : -- " They have always been enemies of the Church of England as by law established ; they have always railed at her liturgy, her service, her Church government, and her ceremonies." This strife continued for some time, until at length, the New York seceders " being fearful of a decree, that might expose their own estates to the payment of Mr. Roux's salary, thought it advisable to drop their debates, reinstate the minister and leave the Church."6

In New Rochelle the seceders erected a meeting house, styled themselves " The French Protestant Congregation," and remained violently opposed to their lawful pastors ; and not only so, but in opposition to their own founders, prescribed the Church of England in her doctrine, discipline, ordinances, usages, rites and ceremonies, as popish, rotten and unscriptural. How different this from the views of their great reformer Beza, who addressing Queen Elizabeth, says: -- "But you, O Queen, and your people, by your means, enjoy what perhaps no other kingdom does -- the complete profession of the pure and sincere doctrine of the Gospel. To which, if you add (what all good men hope for, and the most faithful Bishops of your kingdom have long desired,) the

0 New York, MSS. from archives nt Fnlhnm, vol. i., pp. 564-5. (Hawks.)