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PIERRE JURIEU (1637-1713)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 571 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE See also:JURIEU (1637-1713)  , See also:French See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at Mer, in See also:Orleanais, where his See also:father was a Protestant pastor . He studied at See also:Saumur and See also:Sedan under his grandfather, See also:Pierre See also:Dumoulin, and under Leblanc de See also:Beaulieu . After completing his studies in See also:Holland and See also:England, See also:Jurieu received See also:Anglican ordination; returning to See also:France he was ordained again and succeeded his father as pastor of the See also:church at Mer . Soon after this he published his first See also:work, Examen de livre de la See also:reunion du Christianisme (1671) . In 1694 his Traite de la devotion led to his See also:appointment as See also:professor of See also:theology and See also:Hebrew at Sedan, where he soon became also pastor . A See also:year later he published his A pologie pour la morale See also:des Reformes . He obtained a high reputation, but his work was impaired by his controversial See also:temper, which frequently See also:developed into an irritated fanaticism, though he was always entirely sincere . He was called by his adversaries " the See also:Goliath of the Protestants." On the suppression of the See also:academy of Sedan in 1681, Jurieu received an invitation to a church at See also:Rouen, but, afraid to remain in France on See also:account of his forthcoming work, La Politique du clerge de France, he went to Holland and was pastor of the Walloon church of See also:Rotterdam till his See also:death on the 11th of See also:January 1713 . He was also professor at the ecole illustre . Jurieu did much to help those who suffered by the revocation of the See also:Edict of See also:Nantes (1685) . He himself turned for See also:consolation to the See also:Apocalypse, and succeeded in persuading himself (Accomplissement des propheties, 1686) that the overthrow of See also:Antichrist (i.e. the papal church) would take See also:place in 1689 . H .

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Baird says that " this persuasion, however fanciful the grounds on which it was based, exercised no small See also:influence in forwarding the success of the designs of See also:William of See also:Orange in the invasion of England." Jurieu defended the doctrines of Protestantism with See also:great ability against the attacks of See also:Antoine See also:Arnauld, Pierre See also:Nicole and See also:Bossuet, but was equally ready to enter into dispute with his See also:fellow Protestant divines (with See also:Louis Du See also:Moulin and See also:Claude Payon, for instance) when their opinions differed from his own even on See also:minor matters . The See also:bitter.ness and persistency of his attacks on his colleague Pierre See also:Bayle led to the latter being deprived of his See also:chair in 1693 . One of Jurieu's See also:chief See also:works is Lettres pastorales adressees aux fideles de France (3 vols., Rotterdam, 1686–1687; Eng. trans., 1689), which, notwithstanding the vigilance of the See also:police, found its way into France and produced a deep impression on the Protestant See also:population . His last important work was the Histoire critique des dogmes et des tulles (1704; Eng. trans., 1715) . He wrote a great number of controversial works . See the See also:article in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie; also H . M . Baird, The See also:Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1895) .

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