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her power to alter in any wise our
ecclesiastical regimen. It is a first
principle at once of American poli-
tics and of American Churchman-
ship that the civil and the religious
powers are separate and distinct.
Let any other principle be admitted,
and the Church is in worse position
that the English Establishment
are become distinctly Erastian.
Carry out this principle: let the
State assume to control our legisla-
tion so that it shall conform to
hers, and where will we find
ourselves in the matter, say, of
marriage and divorce?

I argue further, that
Independency, whether of Congregation
or of Diocese, has no warrant
in Holy Scriptureor in ancient
usage. Indepencency is destructive