David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ And deeply chagrined at finding himself the victim of a contemptible impostor, he went to Egypt, and paid a long visit to his uncle in Alexandria. In that city, without his uncle’s knowledge, he prosecuted long and anxious enquiries as to Christ and Christianity; and at length he declared himself to the Romish missionaries as a convert willing to be baptized. The danger of offending his relations was such, that the advice of the French Consul was asked and acted upon. And accordingly he sailed from Alexandria for Marseilles and Paris, with letters of introduction from the consul. ”

“ The exact date of his conversion to Protestantism I cannot find, but he preached in the London French Church in the Savoy in October 1669. His sermon was generally applauded; but on Sunday, 17th October, the Superior of the Capuchins at Somerset House rudely assailed him, and denounced the sermon as infamous and abominable. It was therefore translated into English, and published with the title “Faith in the Just victorious over the World, a Sermon preached at the Savoy in the French Church, on Sunday, October 10, 1669, by Dr. ”

“ Who are those which are born of God? (2.) What victory they obtain over the world. (3.) What this faith is which makes them obtain the victory.
In or about 1670 he was made a chaplain in ordinary to the King, and one of the pasteurs of the French Church in the Savoy ”