David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ We who are in a country so remote from our own, only for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, — let us study to render our confession and our faith glorious by discreet and modest conduct, by an exemplary life, and by entire devotedness to the service of God. ”

“ They were styled in public documents new converts or new catholics, — while their brethren at a distance called them apostates and Protestants Tombés. Graverol used the milder designation of Nicodémites, as we gather from the title of another of his works first printed at Amsterdam in 1687 (reprinted 1700) :— “Instructions pour les Nicodémites, ou après avoir convaincu ceux qui sont tombés de la grandeur de leur crime, on fait voir qu’ aucune violence ne peut dispenser les hommes de l’obligation de professer la verité.” ”