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 greater hardships in going to hell, than good people in the way that leadeth unto heaven, 1st edition, 1718; 2nd edition, 1753.

3. A Discourse [on 2 Pet. ii. 9] upon the Intermediate State between the death of men and the resurrection of their bodies, which is to be followed by the Universal Judgment, 1st edition, 1751; 2nd edition, 1752.

4. The Ancientness of the Christian Religion, or a Discourse [on Gen. iii. 15] concerning the original account of the marvellous and most comfortable work of men’s redemption through the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity our Lord Jesus Christ, who took their nature in order to effect it; shewing that this blessed work has been carried on ever since Adam and Eve fell into sin, and is to be carried on to the Day of the Universal Judgment. To which is added, a Discourse on St. John, chap. 1 ver. 1. 1753.

5. A Discourse upon Faith. [This and the five following were advertised in 1753.]

6. A Discourse upon the vile mischievous issue of the devil, the old man crucified with Christ and the body of sin destroyed, calculated for the utter perdition of mankind, but turned by the supreme Wisdom to our eternal felicity.

7. A Discourse upon the most glorious Service of God most certainly rewarded for ever, and upon the vile Service of Mammon very doubtfully rewarded even during a short time.

8. A Discourse concerning the knowledge which every man may and ought to have of both his body and soul, without which he cannot contribute to the happiness of either.

9. A Discourse upon the wonderful Greatness of the Lord God, which, though it appears everywhere, is yet perceived but by very few men to their great comfort.

10. A Short Parallel or Comparison between the People of Israel and the People of England, taken out of the eleventh chapter of Deuteronomy. In a Discourse preached at St. James’s and at Windsor.

  was pastor of Les Grecs in London, and the eldest son of a Huguenot; “Udel” was the true spelling. The senior Jean Udel of Niort, was a Protestant student of Theology at the time of the Revocation, and was intimidated into a formal abjuration. He married, in 1686, Madelaine de Camus, and settled at Bazoges-en-Pareds, to be near his father-in-law, René de Camus, who, however, died soon after from the effects of a missionary visit of the dragoons. Udel soon repented his recantation, and became so zealous a Protestant that he was shut up in the Bastile in 1691, and was removed from prison to prison for the next quarter of a century. After the death of Louis XIV., he obtained his liberty, and spent some time in a fruitless attempt to rescue his three daughters from a convent. Of two sons, the eldest had succeeded in reaching England; he was the pastor named above; his father was permitted to join him in 1731.   came to England about 1680, son of the refugee Pasteur Perronet, who had chosen Switzerland as his adopted country, and ministered to a congregation at Chateau D’Oex. The name obtained celebrity through David’s son, Rev. Vincent Perronet, a graduate of Oxford, Vicar of Shoreham (born 1693, died 1785), author of the celebrated hymn whose several stanzas end with the words, “and crqwn Him Lord of all;” the most celebrated verse, however, beginning thus — “O that with yonder sacred throng,” was the composition of an editor. In the Countess of Huntingdon’s Life and Times, vol. i. p. 387, 1770, a panegyric of him is given, which I abridge:— “Though Vincent Perronet was possessed of talents and accomplishments which would have qualified him to fill any station in the church with dignity, and his connections in life were such that he had good reason to expect considerable preferment, yet as soon as the glorious light of the gospel visited his mind, he renounced every prospect of temporal advantage. An occasional correspondent of Lady Huntingdon, he till this period had never had a personal interview with her. He was one of the most aged ministers of Christ in the kingdom, and was inferior to none in the fervour of his spirit, in the simplicity of his manners, and in the ancient hospitality of the gospel.” Mr. Perronet was represented collaterally by the late Lieut-General Thomas Perronet Thompson (born 1783), Fellow of Queen’s College, Cambridge, and (in 1802) Seventh Wrangler, author, in 1827, of “A Catechism on the Corn Laws,” M.P. for Hull, who died in 1869.  , F.R.S., born in 1688, was in 1729 one of the Comité Ecclesiastique, and was minister of several French churches from 1727 till his death in 1753. He printed a Treatise on Transubstantiation, “ou extrait de plusieurs sermons prononcés dans la Chapelle de Hammersmith.” He was famous as a linguist, having mastered the following languages:— “Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Coptic, Armenian, Syriac, Arabic, Chaldean, Gothic, Old Tudesco or Druid, Anglo-Saxon, besides Spanish, Portuguese, and Welsh.” (See London and Scots Magazine for 1753.)

He is well known to collectors through his rare volumes, valued by the booksellers at £3, 10s., entitled, “Rabbinical Literature, or the Traditions of the Jews,