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SCHOLARLY ANSWER TO MENNONITES' "BLASPHEMOUS TEACHINGS"
DORESLAER, Abraham à and Petrus Jakobus AUSTRO-SYLVIUS. Grondige ende Klare Vertooninghe van het Onderscheydt in de Voornaemste Hooftstucken der Christelijcker Religie, tusschen de Gereformeerde ende de Weder-dooperen: ...
Enkhuizen, Albert Wesselz. Kluppel (colophon: printed by Floris Jansz. Camerling), 1649. 4to. With an emblematic woodcut publisher's device, 6 decorated woodcut initial letters. With the main text in 2 columns, a 19-page dedication and the authors' 34-page foreword. Eighteenth-century stiff sprinkled-paper wrappers, rebacked with orange cloth.
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Second edition of a Dutch Reformed attack against the Mennonites, first published in 1637: "the only scholarly work comparing the doctrines of the Calvinists with those of the Mennonites" (Mennonite Encyclopedia).
In 1626 the Alkmaar synod asked Austro-Sylvius (d. 1647) to write a book in response to the confession of faith published by the Mennonite preacher Jacques Outerman, which contained "blasphemous teachings." In 1627 it became clear that he couldn't do it alone, and Abraham à Doreslaer (1579-1655) was appointed to help. Once the outline of statements and counter statements had been approved by the synod committee, the two authors proceeded to work out the details of the comparison. The book includes extensive quotations from many extremely rare publications.
With an ownership inscription of the American Baptist theologian and Old Testament scholar, Howard Osgood (1831-1911), and the embossed stamp of the Rochester Theological Seminary. In very good condition and nearly untrimmed, giving generous margins, with only a few minor and mostly marginal water stains. Wrapper slightly tattered. Second edition of an extremely detailed comparison of the doctrines of the Calvinists and those of the Mennonites.
