Grostete, Claude

Grostete, Claude, a French Protestant theologian. was born at Orleans in 1647. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar by the Parliament of Paris in 1665, but afterwards devoted himself to the-elegy, and in 1675 became pastor of Lisy. In 1682 he accepted a call to Rouen, but soon after returned to Lisy, where he remained until the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685. Obliged to leave France, he went to England, and died at London in 1713. He wrote Traite de l'Inspiration des livres sacrez du N.T. (Amst. 1695, 8vo): — Entretiens sur la correspondance fraternelle de l'Eglise anglicane avec les autres Eglises reformees (Hague, 1708, 12mo): — Relation de la So-ciete etablie pour la propagation de l'Evangile dans les

pays etrangers, avec trois sermons (Rotterd. 1708): — Nouveaux Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des trois

Camisards ou l'on voit les declarations de M. le colonel Cavalier (London, 1708, 8vo): — La Pratique de l'Hu-milite (Amst. 1710,12mo): — Charitas Anglicana (about 1712): Le Devoir du chretien convalescent, en quatre sermons sur le Psalm cxci, 8, 9, et les quatres sentiments du roi Ezechias sur sa maladie, sa convalescence et sur sa chute apres sa convalescence (Hague, 1713, 8vo): — Ser-rams sur divers textes (Amsterdam, 1715, 8vo). See Vie de Claude Grostete (prefixed to his Sermons sur divers textes) ; Haag, La France Protestaute ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 22:190.