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LUTHERAN CONVERT FROM CALVINISM ON DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEIR TEACHINGS
HUBER, Samuel. Gegensatz der Lutherischen, und Calvinsischen oder Zwinglischen Lehr, in etlichen fürnemen streitigen Artickeln, gestellet, ...
Wittenberg, Christoph Axin for Paul Helwigs, 1593. 4to. Title-page in red and black with woodcut scrollwork device, numerous woodcut decorative initials and decorations built up from arabesque fleurons. Disbound.
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Third(?) and last edition of an attack on Calvinism by the Lutheran theologian Samuel Huber, contrasting Lutheran and Calvinist doctrine, first published at Tübingen in 1591. Huber discusses the teachings of the two denominations point by point and mirrors them by presenting his outline of the two doctrines on facing pages, the Lutheran on the left and the Calvinist on the right. His comparison covers their teachings concerning God, Christ, human kind, preaching and the sacraments. With a 3-page index and a preface by the author dated 8 June 1592. Huber (1547-1624) converted from Calvinism to Lutheranism and became a professor of theology at Wittemberg, but fell afoul of the Lutheran authorities due to his firey condemnations of Lutheran colleagues as crypto-Calvinists and was stripped of his professorship. VD 16 records five versions of this work, but some may be different issues of the same edition (for most it gives no fingerprints), so it is not clear whether the first four versions represent two, three or four editions. The present is clearly a new edition, by the same printer as one from 1592, and was to be the last.
Somewhat browned and with tears in the last leaf. An outline of the differences between the Lutheran and Calvinist doctrines, by an anti-Calvinist Lutheran.
