1782 HUGO GROTIUS ON THE TRUTH OF CHRISTIANITY SCARCE

HUGO GROTIUS
ON THE
 THE TRUTH OF CHRISTIANITY

IN SIX BOOKS

FAMILIARLY TRANSLATED INTO
ENGLISH

Hugo Grotius 1583-1645 also known as Huig de Groot worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic. With Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili  he laid the foundations for international law based on natural law. He was also a philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet.

Grotius wrote this work defending Christianity in 1632, in Latin called De Veritate Religionis Christianae   It was the first Protestant  textbook of Christian apologetics, and is divided into six books. The work discussed the emerging questions of historical consciousness concerning the authorship and content of the canonical gospels, pagan religion, Judaism and Islam, and anticipated the problems of eighteenth-century Deism. Grotius represents the first of the practitioners of legal, or juridical, apologetics in the defence of Christian belief.

Spencer Madan 1758-1836 the translator was an English churchman, bishop successively of Bristol and Peterborough.

358 Pages in total

This volume has an interesting early 19th century bookplate on the fixed front endpaper of a ship to the sinister (left) sails furled and the name of Charles Constable.
Armorial records state this is the device of Constable of Oak House, Battersea, Surrey, possibly a relative of John Constable the artist.

Condition
Original late 18th century binding with leather spine and marbled boards, leather is worn with slight loss and cracks down hinges, pages have some browning and slight foxing, all complete.
Size is 7 by 4½ inches

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