David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ When he finally retired in 1615, he had been a minister of the gospel for fifty-six years.
To return to Pierre Du Moulin — at the age of twenty (anno 1588) he went to London for his higher school education. Thence he removed to Cambridge, where he was a pupil of Dr. Whittaker. During the long vacation he preached in the City of London French Church. After a four years’ residence in England he went to Leyden — as a student at first, but very soon he was made Professor of Philosophy and the Greek language. On 28th February 1599, he became a Protestant pasteur of Paris. ”

“ In a word, I hope from my brother that being reconciled to the people of God and to me, he will make my peace with Monsieur de L’Angle, which he may easily do; for oftentimes some seem to be in great wrath and indignation, who would fain notwithstanding be made friends again, when they find they are angry without cause and to no purpose. ”

“ To which end he wrote his Paraenesis contra cedificatores imperii in imperio, and his Papa Ultrajectinus, and other tractates, and thrust them on me to make me of his mind, and at last wrote his Jugulum Causea with no less than seventy epistles directed to princes and men of interest, among which he was pleased to put one to me. The good man meant rightly in the main, but had not a head sufficiently accurate for such a controversy, and so could not perceive that anything could be called properly Government, that was, in no way, co-active [co-ercive] by corporal penalties. ”

“ The conformity of the discipline and government of those who are commonly called Independents to that of the ancient Primitive Christians. (2.) A short and true account of the several advances the Church of England hath made towards Rome. His comparatively young relative De L’Angle, besides using an unbecoming magisterial tone, had brought Prebendary Du Moulin’s name into the dispute. Louis Du Moulin, in reply, hoped that his brother would discover where the Church’s true distemper lay, and thereafter what was the remedy for it. ”

“ Aut sustinet modestia.
Obiit Sedani, ad 6 Non : Mart : 1658, aet. 90.
The younger Peter Du Moulin was born in 1600, he was D.D. of Leyden, afterwards incorporated in Cambridge, and on 10th October 1656 at Oxford. As a refugee he first appears in Ireland, where during some years of the Commonwealth he was under the patronage of Richard, Earl of Cork. Next he acted as tutor in Oxford to Charles Viscount Dungarvan and Hon. Richard Boyle. He had taken orders in the Church of England, and constantly preached at Oxford in the church of St Peter-in-the-East. ”