David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ The pasteur, Gilbert Primerose, was a Scotchman, and a preacher of the Church of Scotland, who, when his native country was disturbed by royal intermeddling with his church, chose to remove to France, and to undertake the office of the Christian ministry among the Huguenots. So far he cannot be classed among French refugees. ”

“ At this date Father Arnoux, a Jesuit, preached before Louis XIII., at the Castle of Amboise, and declared that neither the Catholic Church nor the Order of the Jesuits held it to be lawful to murder kings, and that both were agreed in anathematising rebels and king-killers. ”

“ He used his influence to procure an Act which was registered in the Parliament of Bourdeaux, that no stranger, being an alien born, should be minister of a congregation in France. The exact date at which this ordinance took effect in M. Primerose’s case does not appear; but he seems to have remained in France till the meeting of the National Synod at Charenton, in September 1623. The Synod sent a deputation to the king, to petition for the restoration of the outed ministers. ”

“ In the same year he published a volume of nine sermons, entitled, “The Righteous Man’s Tears and the Lord’s Deliverance.” In the following year appeared his best publication, “The Table of the Lord, whereof — 1. The Whole Service is the Living Bread; 2. The Guests — any man; 3. The Mouth to eate — Faith onely.” This valuable little volume is made up of two sermons, of which the first was preached at Whitehall to the King’s House on the Communion day, 3rd July 1625 ”