Since when they have found me to fiagg in my Duty? if you will believe me, it is since this Governour has been liere, and they have found that lie did me tlie honour of granting me part in his friendship and Familiarity tho' I have no less performed my Duty in preaching since that time, than I did before j So that it is their Malice, Envy and Jealousie that has made them find out wha t they could not see otherwise. Observe the Circumstances and the Context of their Answer in this place, and you'll find it as I say.

Jlnd allho'' we often in a friendly manner requested him to Return to his Duty and perform his Contract^ &c. p. 4.

They have never requested me any thing in a friendly manner towards my Duty, and they had no occasion nor reason of doing it, but they have often scoled, railed and grumbled in an unfriendly manner about a few Sermons, when they had some particular occasions of being angry or fretful against me. What they say here, is meer Malice and Hypocrisy.

Q.. He still persisted notwithstanding to pursue his own humour ^ &c. p. 4. What humour, or whose humour must I pursue then^

TRENCH PROTESTANT CHURCH, NEW-YORK. 1173

if I have not the liberty of my own, as they seem to pretend ? Must I follow or pursue their Humour, or those of the J\rormands, of the Picai-ds, of the Rochelers, of the Poitevins, of the Languedocians, of the Xaintongers, of the Gascons, of the Bretoons, of the Jlngoumoisins, of the Bearnois, or of the Dauphmois 1 But I liave never been in these Provinces, and I find a great many faults in their Inhabitants, so that I think it better for me to pursue my own Humor, that is to say, those of a riglit French-man of no Province at all, but who was born in Holland and Naturalized an English-man.