Catalogus nr 5.indd - Den Hertog Bolland Rare Books

[ 10 ] DUPLESSIS-MORNAY, Philippe (1549-1623). De veritate religionis christianae liber; adversusatheos, Epicureos, ethnicos, Iudaeos, Mahumedistas, & caeteros infideles. Leiden, FranciscusRaphelengius, 1592. 8vo. (32) 694 pp. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards,dated 1593, with two clasps. 950,-Third Latin edition of Duplessis-Mornay’s famous apologetic treatise against atheists, Epicureans, pagans, Jews,Muslims, and other ‘unbelievers’. Duplessis-Mornay, a Huguenot leader and close advisor of Henry of Navarre(1553-1610), was the leading French Protestant apologist of his day. The first nineteen chapters of his treatise abovedeal with the existence and nature of God, the creation of the world, providence and evil, the immortality of thesoul, original sin, and the last end of man. The following chapter demonstrates the necessity of religion and howtrue religion is to be recognized, while the remaining chapters show that the characteristics of true religion areverified in the Old Testament and even more in Christianity. De veritate religionis, first published in French in 1581,was frequently reprinted at the end of the sixteenth century and has been translated into several languages. - Nearcontemporarypurchase inscription on upper pastedown, lower endpapers and lower pastedown with annotationsby David Schramm (1559-1615), extensive old underlinings and marginal annotations, and some staining.NB 21685; TB 3517.