Eut not to speak of the Clergy, I say, that this general Complaint of the Corruption of Manners, cannot be better applyed than to tlie liorrible Scandals wliich we have seen all along break out in this Cliurch, and to the Disorders, Divisions, and other sins, against which I have so often cryed aloud, Esa. 58. 1. and which have, no doubt, drawn upon her the displeasure of God Ahnighty, through which she is now threatened with an entire Ruin and Dissipation, or at least with an unhappy Schism and Rent.

To obtain tlie favour of the Englisli, they begg leave humbly to offer (c) that they caiinot be called Dissenters from the Church of England, as by Law established. But who, do they think to impose upon by this empty Compliment, so meanly expressed t Not surely those of the English, who are Affectionate to their own Church, and who cannot be so easily catched. The Society and all the Episcopal Ministers hereabouts know them too well, to suffer themselves to be bhnded by such smooth Expressions. They have always been Enemys of the Church of England as by Law established, they liave always railed at her Liturgy, her Service, her Church Governmeiit, and her Ceremonies. It is long ago that the late Bishop of London, Doctor Henry Compton conveyed his Complaints to tliem on this subject, by the Consistory of the Walloon Church in London, for tlmt they shewed themselves worse than the Dissenters in England themselves. In opposition to this National Church they have entertained and fomented for several years a scandalous schism at Mew-Rochel, where the incapacity of providing for a Minister, obliged the Inhabitants ^o establish an Episcopal Church, thro' the Bounty and Protection of the Society in England, and tliey would still support this schism, if their M . . . . was not taken up in the Custody of our Churcli, of wliich he keeps the keys, in order to keep me out unjustly.