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 .

In order to support these fine Suspicions, wliich, without Reason, they have taken of me, and tlie Defiance to wliicli (tliey say) I have put them, they would insinuate, as it seems, " That I and my Subscribers are minded to set up anotlier French Congregation in Mew-York by ourselves, or to go over to tlie Church of England, as by Law Establislied, or the Presbyterian - - - - Profession [Here is sometliing which their Malice hath thought of, but they have not thouglit fit to express it.] And all this they advance or suggest without ground and against this some of our Subscribers have already prepared an authentic Declaration. I find tliem very extraordinary in telling us, Tliat in such

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case they do not pretend to have, use or exercise any Coercive Power to Restrain or Punish us for it, much less to Compel us to Return to them, 8fc. We know that very well, and we tliink it the interest of the English, both Episcopalians and Presbyterians to make their Reflections hereupon, and to judge of the Impertinence and Silhness of such an Allegation.