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☞ La nouvelle Methode des Dragons est si efficace qu’il n y a point de Religion que ces Missionaires armez ne puissent imposer là ou ils sont les plus forts. Siècle admirable, ou ceux qui se piquent d’être Chretiens par excellence ont trouvé le secret de faire les Chretiens Juifs, de Juifs Mahometans, et de Mahometans Payens; après cela si on veut qu’ils en reviennent il n’y aura que les faire derechef Chrêtiens Orthodoxes ou Heretiques.

He gives us, among some Additions (1688), a piece of late news about the Refugees after the Revocation of “L’Edit de Nantes, édit irrevocable, qui cependant a ête dernièrement revoqué”:—

. — I said it was worth but eleven livres; but, gold having grown scarce by the flight of French Protestants (who carried with them a good part of the gold used in France), both the Lewises and Spanish Pistoles were lately raised to the value of eleven livres, ten sous.





, D.D., was a member of a monastic order, and was one of the preachers to Queen Henrietta Maria. The exact date of his conversion to Protestantism I cannot find, but he preached in the London French Church in the Savoy in October 1669. His sermon was generally applauded; but on Sunday, 17th October, the Superior of the Capuchins at Somerset House rudely assailed him, and denounced the sermon as infamous and abominable. It was therefore translated into English, and published with the title “Faith in the Just victorious over the World, a Sermon preached at the Savoy in the French Church, on Sunday, October 10, 1669, by Dr. Breval, heretofore preacher to the Queen Mother; translated into English by Dr. Du Moulin, Canon of Canterbury; London, printed for Will. Nott, and are to be sold at the Queen’s-Arms in the Pell-Mell, 1670.” The text was 1 John v. 4; and the heads of discourse were (1.) Who are those which are born of God? (2.) What victory they obtain over the world. (3.) What this faith is which makes them obtain the victory.

In or about 1670 he was made a chaplain in ordinary to the King, and one of the pasteurs of the French Church in the Savoy; he also had a diploma as Doctor of Theology. In the next year he had an opportunity of proclaiming his functions and dignities in print. Having been privileged to baptize a converted Jew publicly in