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Annet is said to have been born at Liverpool in 1693.
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Critical Examination Of The Life Of St. Paul, Tr. From The Fr. Of Boulanger or Rather From P.H.D. Von Holbach's Tr. Of P. Annet..
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Many theologians would make us regard the miraculous conversion and apostleship of St. Paul as one of the strongest proofs of the truth of Christianity. But in viewing the thing closely it appears that this conversion, far from proving any thing in favour of this religion, invalidates the other proofs of it, in fact, our doctors continually assure us that the Christian religion draws its strongest proofs from the prophecies of the Old Testament, whilst there is not in fact a single one of these prophecies that can be literally applied to the Messiah of the Christians. St. Paul himself willing to make use of these oracles of the Jewish nation to prove the mission of Christ, is obliged to distort them, and to seek in them a mystical, allegorical, and figurative sense. On the other side, how can these prophecies made by Jews and addressed to Jews, serve as proofs of the doctrine of St. Paul, who had evidently formed the design of altering, or even of destroying, the Jewish religion, in order to raise a new system on its ruins? Such being the state of things, what real connection, or what relation, can there be between the religious system of the Jews, and that of St. Paul? For this Apostle to have had the right of making use of the Jewish prophecies, it would have been necessary that he should have remained a Jew; his conversion to Christianity evidently deprived him of the privilege of serving himself, by having recourse to the prophecies belonging to a religion that he had just abandoned, and the ruin of which he meditated. True prophecies can only be found in a divine religion, and a religion truly divine, can neither be altered, reformed, nor destroyed: God himself, if he is immutable, could not change it. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. Is the Conversion of St. Paul a proof in favour of the Christian Religion? CHAPTER II. Opinions of the first Christians upon the Acts of the Apostles, and upon the Epistles and Person of St. Paul. CHAPTER III. Of the Authority of the Councils, of the Fathers of the Church, and of Tradition CHAPTER IV. Life of St. Paul, according to the Acts of the Apostles CHAPTER V. St. Paul styles himself the Apostle of the GentilesCauses of his Success. CHAPTER VI. Paul preaches in Asia Minor, Macedonia, and Greece CHAPTER VII. Preaching of St. Paul at Corinth and Ephesus CHAPTER VIII. The Apostle gets into embarrassments at Jerusalem, and is sent to Rome CHAPTER IX. Reflections on the Life and Character of St. Paul CHAPTER X. Of the Enthusiasm of St. Paul CHAPTER XI. Of the Disinterestedness of St. Paul CHAPTER XII. Of the imperious Tone and political Views of St. Paul CHAPTER XIII. Of the Humility, of St. Paul CHAPTER XIV. Of the Zeal of St. Paul; Reflections on this Christian Virtue CHAPTER XV. Of the Deceptions or Apostacy of St. Paul CHAPTER XVI. St. Paul's Hypocrisy CHAPTER XVII. St. Paul accused of Perjury, or the Author of the Acts of the Apostles, convicted of Falsehood. CHAPTER XVIII. Examination of St. Paul's Miracles CHAPTER XIX. Analysis of the writings attributed to St. Paul CHAPTER XX. Of Faith, in what this Virtue consists CHAPTER XXI. Of the Holy Ghost, and Divine Inspiration CHAPTER XXII. Of the Inspiration of the Prophets of the Old Testament CHAPTER. XXIII. Of the Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles, or their Divine Inspiration CHAPTER XXIV. General reflections on the foundations of Christian Faith, and on the Causes of Credulity CONCLUSION.
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Annet is said to have been born at Liverpool in 1693.
He was a schoolmaster by profession.
In 1739 he wrote and published a pamphlet, Judging for Ourselves, or Freethinking the Great Duty of Religion, a strong criticism of Christianity. For writing this and similar pamphlets, he lost his teaching position.
A work attributed to him, called A History of the Man after God's own Heart (1761), intended to show that King George II was insulted by a current comparison with King David. The book is said to have inspired Voltaire's Saul. It is also attributed to one John Noorthouck (Noorthook).
In 1763 he was condemned for blasphemous libel in his paper called the Free Inquirer, of which only nine numbers were published. After his release he kept a small school in Lambeth, one of his pupils being the politician James Stephen (1758–1832), who became master in Chancery.
At age 68, Annet was sentenced to the pillory and a year's hard labour.
He died on 18 January 1769.
Annet stands between the earlier philosophic deists and the later propagandists of Thomas Paine's school, and seems to have been the first freethought lecturer (J. M. Robertson); his essays, A Collection of the Tracts of a certain Free Enquirer, are forcible but lack refinement.
He also invented a system of shorthand.
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A schoolmaster by profession, he became prominent owing to his attacks on orthodox theologians. Annet was very hostile to the clergy and to scripture, being a thoroughgoing deist in every way. He distinguished himself by being extremely critical of the character and reputation of King David and the Apostle Paul.
When the Christian apologists replaced the argument from miracles with the argument from personal witness and the credibility of Biblical evidence, Annet, in his Resurrection of Jesus (1744), assailed the validity of such evidence, and first advanced the hypothesis of the illusory death of Jesus, suggesting also that possibly Paul should be regarded as the founder of a new religion. In Supernaturals Examined (1747) Annet roundly denies the possibility of miracles.
He became prominent owing for his membership of a semi-theological debating society, the Robin Hood Society, which met at the Robin Hood and Little John at Butcher Row.
