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to some of them who were discontented in England, conjuring them by 

 all that was good and sacred, not to forsake the communion of the 

 Church of England, for such indifferent rites and ceremonies as were 

 there imposed upon them.* Whilst Calvin, the founder of the French 

 Churches, passed an anethema upon those who forsake the communion 

 of orthodox , bishops where they are to be had ; witness that solemn 

 declaration of his in his book, " De Necessitate Reformandae Ecclesice: 

 " Talem si nobis exhibeant hierarchiam, in qua sic emineant episcopi, 

 ut Christo subesse non recusent — ut ab illo tanquam unico Capite pen- 

 deant, et ad ipsum referentur — turn nullo non anathemate dignos fateor, 

 si qui erunt qui non earn reverenter, summaque obedientia observent." 

 " Give us such an hierarchy," says he, "in which bishops preside who 

 are subject to Christ, and Him alone as their Head; and then I will 

 own no curse too bad for him that shall not pay the utmost respect and 

 obedience to such an hierarchy as that." 



" The truth is, Calvin and Beza, and the French Church, set up such 

 a government and discipline at the Reformation as the state of their 

 affairs would bear ; but they never absolutely condemned Episcopacy, 

 or thought their own model ought to be the rule to other churches. 

 Beza expressly disclaims that, as a false and slanderous imputation in 

 any that' should say, "They prescribed their own example to be followed 

 by any other Church, like those ignorant men who think nothing right 

 done but what they do themselves."' 5 



The Rev. Joseph Bingham, in that admirable discourse of his entitled, 

 " The French Church's Apology for the Church of England," concludes 

 with "A serious address to Dissenters and to the Refugees of the 

 French Church, to join in constant and full Communion with the 

 Church of England." " I have nothing more to do, (he observes) but 

 to close this discourse with a serious exhortation to such persons as are 

 concerned in it, who are chiefly such dissenters as make use of the argu- 

 ments I have examined in this book, to justify their separation from 

 the Church of England." 



Upon this conformity of the French Church at New Rochelle, we find 

 the Venerable Society making an annual allowance to the Rev. Daniel 

 Bondet, and directing him to use the Liturgy of the Church of Eng- 

 land. 



At the same time, Governor Ingoldesby issued the subjoined order to 

 the Consistory, putting Mr. Bondet in possession of the Church and its 

 appendages : 



a Bpza, Ep. xii, p. 105. 



b Bingham' 3 Aatiquities of the Christian Church, vol. viii, pp. 209-10. 



