" It is further ordered ; That wheresoever the Ministry of the Word is established according to the order of the Gospel throughout this Colony, every person shall duely resort and attend thereunto respectively upon the Lord's day, and upon such publick Fast dayes and dayes of thanksgiving, as are to be generally kept by the appointment of Authority. And if any person within this Jurisdiction, shall without just and necessary cause, withdraw himself from hearing the publick Ministry of the Word, after due means of conviction used, he shall forfeit for his absence from every such meeting _/?t;e shillings. . . .

" It is ordered by this Court ; That the Civil Authority here established hath power and liberty to see the Peace, Ordinances and Rules of Christ be observed in every church according to his Word ; as also to deal with any Church member in a way of civil justice notwithstanding any Church relation, office, or interest, so it be done in a civil and not in an ecclesiastical way, nor shall any church censure degrade or depose any man from any Civil Dignity, Office or Authority he shall have in the Colony.^

Such was the Established Congregational Church of Connecticut, on the East end of Long Island. To both it and the Colony, the final determination of the Joint-Commission appointed to settle the boundary question after the Dutch surrender, that the ea.stern part of Long Island was included in the Duke of York's Patent and was a part of New York, was a blow as severe as it was unwelcome, and the people of that region protested against it, but in vain. Although this decision severed the civil connexion between Suffolk County and the Colony of Connecticut, it did not affect the ecclesiastical connexion between them except that it ended the latter's power to enforce its church laws there by the civil arm.