David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Thousands of infidels, who know not or believe not a sentence in the Gospels, are yearly allowed, nay, compelled to swear by or on them.”
A writer in the Edinburgh Review (vol. 121, page 495) suggests that in a preference for Scriptural names, and especially for Old Testament names, for their children, the French Protestants resembled the English Puritans. He says, “About the middle of the sixteenth century, as we gather from the names in their pedigree, the Dumont family became Huguenots, in common with many of the nobles of the province [of Normandy] . ”

“ They, however, allowed, though they did not compel, the appointment of sponsors, but without such designations as god-fathers and god-mothers. A child might have a male sponsor called the parrain, and a female, the marraine; sometimes there were two of each sex. In the city of London, Canterbury, and Southampton, there were no sponsors, but only témoins, witnesses. The witnesses, however, were expected to have an eye upon the child during his or her years of pupilage.
What the Huguenots most delighted in was Clement Marot’s metrical version of the Psalms. ”

“ Books were surely meant for reading and not for kissing; but [in England] we see those, who care not to read, forward to kiss. Many who never read the Bible once in their lives, can kiss it twenty times in a day. ”

“ When a consistory has suspended any one from the Lord’s Supper, that consistory shall give intimation to all the other churches, and they shall hold that suspension good. If the suspended person complains of unjust procedure and presents an appeal, the General Assembly shall examine the affair in the fear of God, and shall confer with the consistory. If the General Assembly finds that the suspension is just, it shall hold in all the churches ”

“ Many of the nobles, bishops, and gentry of England laid the refugees under great obligations to them by many acts of kindness, so that the refugees in private life were more associated with them than with the middle class to which the dissenters belonged. ”

“ On the other hand, in the list of refugees who received pecuniary aid (which are preserved in the Archbishop's Library at Lambeth) , each individual, who stood firm and was tortured and imprisoned for such steadfastness, is honoured by having placed opposite to his or her name the word confesseur or confesseuse. ”

“ In 1751 appeared a splendid edition of the “Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg,” in which Frederic wrote about the refugees to this effect:— “An entire people departed from the kingdom out of party spirit, having the Pope as its object of hatred, and to receive under another sky the communion in both kinds. Four hundred thousand souls expatriated themselves and forsook all their possessions, that they might roar within other temples Clement Marot’s old Psalms.” The poet Akenside rebuked the Royal Author ”

“ Jacques Brouard et Jacques Tendrouneau, tous deux de Poitou, de la ville de Poitou, de la ville de Pouzeau, nez Protestans, &c.
↑ Misson records as to the French Refugees’ churches:— “Some have stuck to their old service according to the institution of Calvin, others have conlornicd to the Church of England, and part have grown amphibious.” ↑ Quoted in Baynes’ Witnesses in Sackcloth, page 227. ↑ A certain stigma is attached to the name of one under discipline, even in a deed of restoration. ”

“ Mr Jacques Anges Arnaud, de Blois, et Dselle Marie Anne des Marets, de Paris, sa femme. tous deux nez Protestans et de Parents Protestants, à ce qu’ils ont dit, ont fait leur recognoissance dans l’Eglize de St Pierre Port en cette Isle le jour sus dit pour avoir este a la Messe, et particulieremt le jour de leur mariage, et ayant promis solemnellemt de perseverer constamment dans la profession de nostre sainte religion jusques à la mort, ils ont este receus a la Paix de l’Eglize. ”