David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Here I may quote a sentence regarding the Prophecies of Holy Scripture, contained in a letter from F. Abauzit to William Burnet, Governor of New York: “I have often been witness to the happy effects they have produced in the minds of sensible persons who, though once surrounded with all the felicities of their native soil, have in the indigence of a foreign refuge preserved great cheerfulness of soul. ”

“ There is only the [Roman] Catholic Church which hath circumscribed it within the limits of the first three centuries, during which it maintains that everything was accomplished, as if it were afraid lest, descending lower, it should see Antichrist in the person of its Metropolitan.”
Firmin Abauzit was a refugee in Geneva (born at Usez, in Languedoc, 11th November 1679, died 20th March 1767) . A brother died in London in 1717. Their father died in 1681. ”

“ They acknowledged that they lived on the prophecies, so powerfully were hey supported by the soothing hope of a speedy re-establishment.” In his Discourse on the Apocalypse, he says: “The English find here the revolutions of Great Britain ”