David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ I have left for ever a country where I enjoyed as much worldly happiness as was possible, to come to live and die in another, where I have no other expectation nor means to advance myself but only through your kindness and favour. ”

“ I sometimes seriously proposed my objections to a great number of most accomplished men, with whom I had been long conversant, and never could receive any satisfactory return." Therefore he said in his prayer before the sermon, “Forgive, O my God! forgive me the sin of having so long detained Thy truth in unrighteousness, against my conscience and Thy secret motions.”
De la Motte seems to have been a distinguished Brother of the Order of the Carmelites. He was admitted by the Bishops to be a Preacher in Cathedrals ”

“ I must to the glory of God acknowledge it that it was at a time in which I had the strangest and natural engagements to keep me in my predecessors’ religion and in my former profession.”
The preacher gives an interesting anecdote connected with his monkish career. He is replying to an argument in favour of Popery grounded upon the desertion of the Protestant church by Turenne (who died that very year) , and many noblemen and gentlemen. Such changes, he maintains, are brought about by worldly fashion and interest; but that French Protestants, as a body, are stedfast. ”