De veritate religionis christianae amica collatio cum erudito Judaeo.

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[= A friendly conversation with a Jew concerning the truth of the Christian religion ]. Goudae, Justum ab Hoeve [Gouda : Justus van der Hoeve]. First edition. Small quarto (235 x 190 mm), contemporary full calf (new spine and title-piece, sympathetic to the style of the period); front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William Markham of Becca Lodge, Yorkshire, title-leaf in red and black with early ownership signature of Thos. Brown (light staining and browning, fore-edge chipped); pp. [16], 364, [14, index]; separate title-pages for the second and third parts, Exemplar humanae vitae ( An example of a human life ) and Brevis refutatio argumentorum quibus Acosta omnem religionem revelatam impugnat ( A brief refutation of the arguments in which Acosta attacks all revealed religion ); side notes, woodcut tailpieces; occasional browning, but very clean throughout, a good copy with wide margins. Philipp van Limborch (1633-1712) was a Dutch Remonstrant theologian. He based his De veritate religionis christianae now regarded as key theological work of the eighteenth century on an identically titled one by Hugo Grotius. It comprises a debate in the form of an exchange of letters between Limborch and the Jewish scholar Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617-1687), who is the erudite Jew referred to in the work s title. Castro, having fled the Inquisition in Spain, made attacks against Christianity in France and then in Holland. Limborch publishes and responds to three letters authored by Cas

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