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the churches of Mer and Vitry, and it proved the canfe 
of many mortifications which he met with in Sedan, where, 
notwithftanding, a confiderable party was warmly attached 
to him. At this place he publifhed, in 1673, his Prefer- 
vative againft the Change of Religion, to counteract the 
effeCts of the Expofition of the Catholic Faith, by the ce¬ 
lebrated Boffuet, at that time bifhop of Condom. In the 
year 1681 he publilbed anonymoully a fpirited though bitter 
attack on the Catholics, and in particular the Jefuits, in 
a piece entitled, La Politique du Clerge de France, in 2 
vols. nmo. which excited confiderable refentment in 
the fpiritual bodies, who certainly merited the caftigation 
which it bellowed upon them, for urging the court to ftrip 
the proteftants by degrees of all their privileges, in order 
to complete their deftruCtion. In purfuance of that ini¬ 
quitous fyltem, during the prefent year IyOuis XIV. paff- 
ed an arret for the fupprefiion of the academy of Sedan. 
After the lofs of his profelTorlhip, Mr. Jurieu was in¬ 
vited to undertake the office of the tniniftry at Rouen ; 
but wa? deterred from accepting that offer, by receiving 
information that the French court had made the difcovery 
that he was the author of La Politique, &c. While he 
was at a lofs for a fettlement, his friend Bayle, for whom 
he had been inftrumental in procuring the profefforffiip of 
philofophy at Sedan, had the opportunity of difcharging 
that debt of obligation, by fucceeding in his recommen¬ 
dation of him to an eftabliffiment at Rotterdam. Bayle 
had obtained the profefforffiip of philofophy in a n ewfchola 
illuftris founded in that city; and, by his influence with 
M. Paets, a counfellor of Rotterdam, who was himfelf a 
learned man and a patron of men of letters, fecured the 
poll of profeflor of divinity for his friend Jurieu. On 
this office our author entered about the commencement 
of the year 1682 ; and was afterwards, in connexion with 
it, appointed minifter of the Walloon church in the fame 
city. In the year 1683, M. Jurieu publifhed, A Parallel 
between the Hiftory of Calvinifm and that of Popery, of 
an Apology for the Reformation, the Reformers, and the 
Reformed, in Anfwer to a Libel, entitled The Hiftory of 
Calvinifm, by M. Maimbourg; 2 vols. 4to. This work is 
ably and forcibly written ; but it had the misfortune to 
follow a criticifm on the fame performance by M. Bayle, 
which was fo much more popular than our author’s, that 
the mind of the latter began to be impreffed with that jea- 
ioufy and dillike towards his friend, which was not long 
in ripening into fettled enmity. In 1685, M.Jurieu pub- 
liffied, Prejugez Legitimes contre le Papifme, in 2 vols. 
4to. which was followed, in the year 1686, by a work en¬ 
titled, “The Accomplilhment of the Prophecies, or the 
approaching Deliverance of the Church: a Work wherein 
it is proved that Popery is the Kingdom of Antichrift ; 
that this Kingdom is not far from its Ruin, and that this 
Ruin is to begin very foon : that the prefent Perfecution 
cannot continue above three Years and a Half, &c.” 3 
vols. nmo. In this work he imagined that he had offered 
a true key to the profound myfteries of the apocalypfe ; 
that they contained prophecies of an approaching revolu¬ 
tion of things in France, in which popery fhould be abo- 
liffied, and the kingdom converted to the proteftant faith, 
without bloodffied, and by the royal authority; and he 
confidently predicted that this change would take place 
within three years and a half from the date of the revoca¬ 
tion of the ediCt of Nantz. With this conviction on his 
mind, he was weak enough to believe in pretended mira¬ 
cles, figns, and wonders, in France, of which accounts 
were propagated by the ignorant and credulous ; and, if 
any perfons doubted of their truth, he ranked them with 
the impious and prophane. To confirm the impreffion 
made on great numbers of the refugees and others by his 
predictions, .he alfo publifhed Paftoral Letters, intended 
to prepare the minds of the reformed in France for this 
great revolution. When the event had given the lie to 
his predictions, and the general laugh was turned againft 
the author and thole who had given credit to them, Jurieu, 
though forced to acknowledge that he had miftaken the 
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time and manner of the predifiions being aecomplifhed„ 
ft ill maintained the certainty of their fpeedy fulfilment5 
and the revolution in England in 1688, together with the 
fubfequent confederacy againft France on the continent, 
made him believe that the predicted reformation fhould tri¬ 
umph by way of conqueft. He, therefore, declared his 
firm belief, that God had raifed up king William to exe¬ 
cute his great defign of abafing and humbling the perfecu- 
tors in France, and of bringing about the fpeedy deliver¬ 
ance of the reformed. 
M. Jurieu’s pieces above mentioned gave rife to a vari¬ 
ety of temporary publications, by proteftants and catho¬ 
lics, fome ferious, and fome latirical; and among others 
there appeared, in 1690, one entitled, Important Advice 
to the Refugees, on their approaching Return to France; 
which, though not acknowledged, there is good evidence 
to believe was the production of Mr. Bayle. Of this M. 
Jurieu was convinced, and it changed his growing hatred 
againft his old friend into rage and fury. Indeed his 
tyrannical and litigious temper led him to quarrel with his 
beft friends when they oppol'ed any of his fentiments. It 
alfo led him to alfume the character of an inquifitorof the 
faith, and virulently to perfecute feveral French minifters, 
moft of whom w r ere refugees in Holland. He acculed them 
of Socinianifm, and brought them before the fynods ; when 
all their criminality confifted in their being men of mode¬ 
rate principles ; but in his judgment toleration was the 
greateft of all herefies. If he found it impoffible to accufe 
thole whom he hated of herefy, he endeavoured to make 
them fufpeCted by the government, and reprefented them 
to be traitors and fpies of France. This perfecuting tem¬ 
per he difplayed during the remainder of his life ; but the 
mortifications which he met with in the oppofition of many 
fpirited antagonifts, the refufal of government to fupport 
by the arm of power the violence of his proceedings, and 
the tacit condemnation of fome of his opinions by the ee- 
clefiallical fynods, at length preyed upon his mind, and 
brought on him a lownefs of fpirits under which he funk 
in the year 1713, when in the feventy-ffxth year of his age. 
He was certainly a man of confiderable learning and abili¬ 
ties, but tyrannical, bigotted, and intolerant in the ex¬ 
treme ; and that his mind was tinCtured with a confidera¬ 
ble portion of fanaticifrn, is abundantly apparent from 
what is related in the preceding narrative. Befides the 
eight articles already noticed, he was the author of, 9. A 
Treatife on Devotion, 1683. 10. A Treatife on the Pow¬ 
er of the Church, 1677. 11. The true Syftem of the 
Church, 1686. 12. On the Unity of the Church, 1688. 13. 
A Treatife on Natureand Grace, 1688. 14. An Abridg¬ 
ment of the Hiftory of the Council of Trent, 1683, 3 vols. 
15. An hiftorical Treatife of a Proteftant on the Subject 
of myftical Theology, 1699. 16. Janua Ccelorum referata, 
1692. 17. A Hiftory of the Opinions and religious Cere¬ 
monies of the Jews, 1704. 18. Sermons, &c. 
JURIEWIC'ZE, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Minlk: forty miles eaft of Minlk. 
JURIE'WO, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Minlk : twenty miles eaft-north-eaft of Minlk. 
JURILGUN'GE, a town of Bengal, in Chittigong; 
thirty-five miles north-north-weft of Illamabad. 
JU'RIN (James), a phyfician of the mathematical feCt, 
was feveral years fecretary to the Royal Society of Lon¬ 
don, and became prefident of the college of phyficians. 
He died in 1750. He made himfelf known by feveral in¬ 
genious applications of mathematical fcience to phyfiolo- 
gical topics. In the Philofophical TranfaCtions of 1718 
and 1719, he gave differtations on the force of the heart, 
which he calculated in its contractions to be equal to a 
weight of 151b. 40Z. This involved him in a controverfy 
with Keill, to.whofe objections he made a. reply in the 
TranfaCtjons. He alfo, in 1719, communicated to the 
Royal Society fome experiments to determine the fpecific 
gravity of the human blood. Thefe, and other papers, he 
publifhed collectively under the title of Phyfico-mathe- 
matical Differtations, 8vo. 173a. To Smith’s Syftem. of 
Optics, 
