Pierre DU MOULIN

First edition, quite rare.
Contemporary full vellum binding. Smooth spine. Title in faded black pen. Browning and stains on the vellum. Title page detached. Marginal dampstains on the last 10 leaves, and on the first ones in the middle of the work. Trimmed close at right margin.
A leading figure among Protestant orators, like Charles Drelincourt, this pastor of the Reformed Church of Paris was among the most skilled controversialists, mixing eloquence and violent diatribes. The author criticizes the Roman Catholic position and replaces Scripture as the sovereign judge of controversies, not the pope or the church. This is a book on the controversy of Holy Scripture, between the...

First edition. Rare.
Half brown percaline binding from the mid-19th century. Gilt title. Good condition.
Examination, by Father Ange de Raconis of the predictions contained in Dumoulin's works, namely the relegation of Protestants to the Indies, the disappearance of the so-called reformed religion, that the name Huguenot would become synonymous with Devil... Father Dumoulin is famous for his controversies and his total adherence to his church, but his character clearly influenced his rhetoric, and violent in his diatribes he found himself attacking in turn the Catholic church and then his own. Raconis attempts here to disqualify Dumoulin's discourse and character.
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