PETER, an eminent French Protestant divine, called ironically by the Papists the Goliath of the Protestants, was born in 1637. He was educated in England under his maternal uncle Peter du Moulin, and took orders in the English church; but returning to succeed his father as pastor of a reformed congregation at Mer in the diocese of Blois, he was made professor of divinity and Hebrew at Sedan, where he acquired great reputation. This university being taken from the Protestants, a professorship of divinity was founded for him at Rotterdam; and he was also appointed minister of the Walloon church in the same town. Being now in a place of liberty, he gave full scope to an imagination naturally warm, and applied himself to study the book of Revelation, of which he fancied he had by a kind of inspiration discovered the true meaning; a notion that led him to many enthusiastic conjectures. He was moreover so unfortunate as to quarrel with his best friends for opposing his visionary opinions, which produced violent disputes between him and Mefris Bayle de Beauval. He died in 1713; and left a great number of esteemed works behind him.