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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition. 269 words

Their Book of Discipline in one canon determines the controversy beyond all dispute, (Chap V, Art. 32,) where it says, " If any pastor break the Church's union, or stirs up contention about any point of doctrine or discipline, or about the form of catechising or administration of the sacraments, or of our common prayers and celebration of marriage, and conform not to the determination of the Classis, he shall then be suspended from his office, and be further prosecuted by the Provincial or National Synod." Here we see conformity to the Liturgy and all its parts, as well as to the Confession of

a Binpham's Antiquities of the Christian Church, vol. vUL 97-S.

I) Mr. Skinner, the grand-father of the late Primus of Scotland, somewhere observes, that Subter-stition is quite as bad as Super-stition. e Calvin Ep. ad. Protector. Aiigl. p. 4169. Bingham's Antiq. of Ch. vol. vlii. B. viii. p. 87.

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of Faith and Discipline, is made necessary to the Church's union.0 So that Moulinars and his party of seceders at New Rochelle were truly Independents, condemned by the discipline of the French Church.

The Rev. Daniel Bondet died sometime in September, 1722, aged sixty-nine years, having been nearly twenty-six years minister of this church. He was eminently useful in keeping the congregation together, under its adverse circumstances, and as he lived greatly beloved, so he died greatly lamented. His mortal remains were interred beneath the chancel floor of the old church. His will bears date the 24th of March, 172 1-2, and was proved on the 21st of September following.