Editing Pierre Allix

{{Short description|French Protestant pastor and author}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
'''Pierre Allix''' (1641 &ndash; 3 March 1717) was a French [[Protestant]] pastor and author. In 1690 Allix was created [[Doctor of Divinity]] by [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]],  and was given the treasurership and a canonry in [[Salisbury Cathedral]] by Bishop [[Gilbert Burnet]]. He discovered that [[Codex Ephraemi]] is a [[palimpsest]].

==Life==
Born in 1641 in [[Alençon]], France, he became a pastor first at [[Saint-Agobile]] [[Champagne, France|Champagne]], and then at [[Charenton-le-Pont|Charenton]], near [[Paris]].  The revocation of the [[Edict of Nantes]] in 1685 compelled him to take refuge in [[London]]. There he set up a church in Jewin Street, [[Aldersgate]].<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=407|title=Allix, Peter|first=Vivienne|last=Larminie}}</ref> He was the most celebrated Huguenot preacher of the 1680s in England, closely associated with [[Charles Le Cène]], and known to advocate [[religious toleration]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Randolph Vigne|author2=Charles Littleton|title=From Strangers to Citizens: The Integration of Immigrant Communities in Britiain, Ireland and Colonial America, 1550-1750|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bm4sFfBAG18C&pg=PA389|accessdate=22 May 2013|year=2001|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=978-1-902210-86-5|pages=389–}}</ref>

In 1690 Allix was created [[Doctor of Divinity]] by [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]],  and was given the treasurership and a canonry in [[Salisbury Cathedral]] by Bishop [[Gilbert Burnet]].<ref name="ODNB"/>

Allix discovered that [[Codex Ephraemi]] is a [[palimpsest]]. He died in [[London]]. He had a large personal library which was sold by retail sale upon his death.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peter Allix 1641-1717 - Book Owners Online |url=https://www.bookowners.online/Peter_Allix_1641-1717 |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=www.bookowners.online |language=en-GB}}</ref> 

==Works==
The numerous works of Allix were in French, Latin, and English. They are chiefly of apologetic character. Against [[Jacques-Benigne Bossuet]] he published ''Some Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont'' (1690), and ''Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of the Albigenses'' (1692), with the idea of showing that the [[Albigensians]] were not [[Manichaeans]], but historically identical with the [[Waldensians|Waldenses]]. They were as follows:<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Allix, Peter|volume=1}}</ref>

* ''Reponse à la Dissertation par Bertram, et Jean Scott, ou Erigene'', 1670. 
* ''Ratramme, ou Bertram Prêtre; du corps et du sang du Seigneur'', 1672. 
* ''Dissertatio de Trisagii origine'', 1674. 
* ''Dissertatio de Sanguine Domini Nostri Jesu Christi''. 
* ''Dissertatio de Tertulliani vita et scriptis''. 
* ''Les Malheurs de l'impenitence, sermon de jeune, sur Proverbes i. 24–28, prononcé à Charenton en 1675''. 
* ''Les devoirs du Saint Ministère, sermon de consecration, sur Tit. ii. 7, 8, prononcé à Charenton en 1676''. 
* ''Dissertatio de Conciliorum quorumvis definitionibus ad examen revocandis'', 1680. 
* ''Anastasii Sinaiticæ anagogicarum contemplationum in Hexahemeron lib. xii.'' 1682.
[[File:Allix Examination of the Scruples.jpg|thumb|Title page of ''An Examination of the Scruples of those who refuse to take the Oaths'', 1689]] 
* ''Défense de la Réformation, sermon sur Jeremie v. 16, prononcé à Charenton en 1682.'' 
* ''Douze Sermons de P. A. sur divers textes'', 1685. 
* ''Determinatio F. Joannis Parisiensis de modo existendi corporis Christi in sacramento altaris'', 1686 (arguing that the Church of Rome did not hold [[transubstantiation]] before the [[Council of Trent]]). 
* ''Les maximes du vrai Chrétien'', 1687. 
* ''L'Adieu de St. Paul aux Ephesiens'', 1688. This sermon was intended to be preached at [[Charenton-le-Pont|Charenton]] on the day on which the church was closed. 
* ''A Discourse concerning Penance'', 1688. 
* ''A Discourse concerning the Merit of Good Works'', 1688. 
* ''An Historical Discourse concerning the Necessity of the Minister's Intention in administering the Sacrament'', 1688. 
* ''Reflections upon the Books of the Holy Scripture to establish the Truth of the Christian Religion'', two vols. (the first published in French, 1687, the second in English, 1688). 
* ''Preparation for the Lord's Supper'', 1688. 
* ''An Examination of the Scruples of those who refuse to take the Oaths'', 1689. 
* ''Some Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the ancient Church of Piedmont'', 1690. 
* ''Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Albigenses'', 1692. (In these two books Allix tried to prove that the Waldenses and Albigenses had preserved the truth unchanged from apostolic times.) 
* ''The Judgment of the ancient Jewish Church against the Unitarians'', 1689. (He argues that the Jews always held the divinity of their expected Messiah.) 
* ''De Messiæ duplice Adventu.'' (Argues that the [[Second Coming]] would be in 1720, or at latest 1736.) 
* ''Animadversions on Mr. Hill's Vindication of the Primitive Fathers against Reverend Gilbert'', 1695. 
* ''Dissertatio in Tatianum''. 
* ''Preface and Arguments on the Psalms'', 1701. 
* ''Nectarii Patriarchæ Hierosolymitani Confutatio Imperii Papæ'', 1702. 
* ''Augustini Hermanni Franche [of Halle] Manuductio ad lectionem SS. edita studio P. A.'', 1706. 
* ''Dissertatio de Domini Nostri anno et mense natali'', 1707. 
* ''A Confutation of the Hopes of the Jews'', 1707. 
* ''Prophecies applied by Mr. Whiston, &c., considered'', 1707. 
* ''An Examination of Several Scripture Prophecies: Which the Reverend M.W. Hath Applyed to the Times After the Coming of the Messiah'', 1707.<ref>{{cite book|author=Pierre Allix|title=An Examination of Several Scripture Prophecies: Which the Reverend M.W. Hath Applyed to the Times After the Coming of the Messiah. By Peter Allix|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k5VSHAAACAAJ|accessdate=22 May 2013|year=1707|publisher=R. Burrough and J. Baker}}</ref> In it Allix argues that Protestant support for the [[Restoration of the Jews to Palestine]] is ill-founded.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Matar |first=Nabil I. |date=1989 |title=Protestantism, Palestine, and Partisan Scholarship |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2537497 |journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=52–70 |doi=10.2307/2537497 |issn=0377-919X}}</ref>
* ''Reflexions critiques et théologiques sur la controversie de l'Eglise'' (no date).

==References==
<references/>
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Allix, Pierre}}

==External links==
*{{prdl|30}}

;Attribution
{{DNB|wstitle=Allix, Peter|volume=1}}

{{Wikisource|Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Allix, Pierre}}
[[Category:1641 births]]
[[Category:1717 deaths]]
[[Category:Doctors of Divinity]]
[[Category:French emigrants to England]]
[[Category:French Calvinist and Reformed ministers]]
[[Category:Writers from Alençon]]
[[Category:17th-century English male writers]]
[[Category:17th-century English writers]]
[[Category:17th-century French male writers]]
[[Category:18th-century English clergy]]
[[Category:17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians]]
[[Category:English Calvinist and Reformed theologians]]