Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 23 - Canon Regis
Canon Regis. — Regis is a Huguenot surname: Haag mentions Pierre Regis, M.D., born at Montpellier, a refugee in Amsterdam. Balthazar Regis, D.D., Rector of Adisham and Canon of Windsor, married Jeanne (born 1701), eldest daughter of Rev. Israel Antoine Aufrère. He died in 1757, and in his Will he declared that he was entitled by primogeniture to an Abbey and paternal estates in Dauphine, which he charged his descendants to claim, “if there be a Reformation in France.” His eldest daughter was Mrs. Dawson, wife of a merchant in Cornhill; Catherine became Mrs. Potter, wife of the Curate of Wallsend, in Northumberland; and another daughter was married to Rev. Mr. Prior of Eton. Mrs. Dawson’s son, William Dawson, Esq. of St. Leonard’s Hill, married Sophia {born 1763), daughter of Anthony Aufrère, Esq. of Hoveton, and had, among other children, the Rev. Henry Dawson, Sophia (Lady Burke), and Matilda (Mrs. Philip Stewart); the son of the latter, Charles Poyntz Stewart, Esq., possesses a portrait of Canon Regis. It appears from the title-pages of his publications that he was a chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty (George II.). These works consist of sermons and more elaborate discourses:—
1. The Advantages of Peaceableness. In two sermons preached on St. Matthew v. 9
2. A Discourse shewing that the Yoke of our Lord Jesus Christ is easier than the yoke of sin or the old man within us, and that wicked men meet with more trouble and encounter 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.