But it belongs to them to shew in what I have failed in Performance of our Agreements : I have endeavored to fulfill them according to my weak Ability, and if every thing were examined in a strict equitable sence, I may one day let them see, that I liave done more than I had obliged myself to do, as well by the first as by the tliird of our Agreements • for as to the second, it relates only to the Salary.

They say, I have broached Innovations amongst them, contrary to the said Contract and the Constitution of our Church. But it belongs to them to shew what these Innovations are, and how they are contrary either to my Engagements, or to the Constitution of our Churches, or to the Principles received among us, and whether their dear Moulinars may not be as much, or more justly accused of them than I.

They say, That I have put them at Defiance, with many opprobrious and vile Expressions, fyc. But it belongs to them to make good Proofs of the Facts, and by credible Witnesses. And besides, who has ever heard that a Minister was deposed, and the payment of his Salary refused him, on account of ill grounded Suspicions, or words hastily spoken, and perhaps wrojigfully reported, and to which tliemselves may have given just occasion? Don't they fall thereby under the Censure which God liatli declared by the Propliet Isaiah against those that make a Man an offenderfor a Word, and lay a snare for him that Reproveth in the Gate, and turn aside the Just for a thing ofJfought ? -- ch. 29, v. 21 .