David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

Name: Protestant Exiles from France — Book First - Chapter 12 - Section X
Author: David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

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“Protestant Exiles from France — Book First - Chapter 12 - Section X”, published in 1886, is a work by David Carnegie Andrew Agnew. It explores elements such as Sortain, Brighton and sermon.

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David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)

“ His ministry in Brighton was one of great fidelity, brilliancy, and celebrity. In the Examiner newspaper for 8th May 1856, there was this allusion to him:— “There is a chapel in Brighton which is always attended by a crowded congregation, because the attention is not exhausted before it is riveted by one of the most eloquent preachers of our time in the highest sense of the word — the eloquence of the earnestness of a pure, enlightened, and earnest spirit, for such is Sortain’s.” ”

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David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)

“ On the other system, a knowledge of the Gospel offer is distinctly assumed, and it is judged to be inexpedient to be always laying the foundation and abridging the time to be spent in building. The latter has often been the idea of young men, and may sometimes have seemed to be Mr Sortain’s idea, his stock of knowledge being extensive and always ready to his hand. This may have occasioned the criticism of the younger John Clayton, written when that venerable divine was eighty years of age. It was not Mr Sortain’s lot to reach the confines of old age. ”

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David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)

“ With regard to the system of Mr Sortain’s ministry, it suggests the usual difference of opinion whether every sermon to an organised congregation should contain an offer of free pardon and salvation to sinners, or whether each sermon should be a fragment of progressive religious instruction. On the one system the conviction is that, considering that to one or more of the hearers any sermon may be his last, a minister should always have one paragraph in his sermon stating the Gospel offer. ”

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David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)

“ Joseph Sortain.” Seven years afterwards he had to condole with the same family on the death of their father in his eighty-ninth year. He said, “You and your whole family have the best sympathies of the entire Christian Church. I believe there never was a servant of Christ who, after a most honourable, dignified, consistent, and useful life, waited for the consolation of Israel with a more legitimate hope. It was his lot to be the link between the calm, sober-minded, judicious ministry of the former generation and the fervid, active one of the present. ”

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David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)

“ The gifted W. M. Thackeray characterized him as “the most accomplished orator I have ever heard in my life.” Mr. Justice Talfourd bore witness to his “eloquence, which, even to one who has heard Robert Hall, is wholly unsurpassed.” Sortain during his whole life enjoyed the friendship of that noble band of Nonconformist ministers known as The Clayton Family. [2] He wrote to Rev. George Clayton on his mother’s death:—
“27 Bedford Square, Brighton, 18th January 1836. ”

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David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)

“ He published a “Funeral Sermon on Rev. Henry Mortlock,” 1837; “Lectures on Romanism and Anglo-Catholicism,” 1841; “Life of Lord Bacon” (Religious Tract Society) ; “Hildebrand and the Excommunicated Emperor,” a tale, 1850; “Count Avensberg and the Days of Luther,” a tale, 1852; “Sermon on the Death of the Duke of Wellington,” 1852. These varied performances were seasonable, having been suggested by the wants of the time. He had planned a work which should take a permanent place in literature, namely, “The Life of Grotius;” ”

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