David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)
“ If your pretended pastors will speak the language and attribute to themselves the authority of true pastors, let them shew us the original of their ministry and, like St Cyprian and the other orthodox bishops, let them make us see that they are descended from any Apostle. Let them show us the eminent Chair, where all the churches preserve the Unity, where principally shines the concord and succession of Episcopacy. ”
David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)
“ It was, however, from the department of worship that the imagination of Episcopalianism in the French Church arose. Many excellent people value the Prayer-Book as the grand feature of English Episcopacy. From the time of Edward VI. it was well known in London and Canterbury that the worship of the French Church was Calvinistic, and not liturgical in the Anglican sense. When, owing to the distance of the City Church in Threadneedle Street from their dwellings, some of the French in Westminster wished a place of worship at their own doors, they received church accommodation from Oliver Cromwell. ”
David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)
“ The duties assigned to the pasteurs are similar to those of other Presbyterian Churches. The duties of the ancicns are to assemble the congregation, and to report scandals to the consistory; while the diacres are to visit the sick, the poor and prisoners, and to catechize from house to house. The elders and deacons are not elected for life, their continuance in office being intended to be of freewill, only they must apply for permission to resign. At an ecclesiastical meeting the president should be a pasteur ”
