HOORNBEEK, Johannes.

De Conversione Indorum & Gentilum libri duo.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1669.WITH: HOORNBEEK, Johannes. [Teshuvah [sic] Yehudah] sive, Pro Convincendis, et Convertendis Judaeis, libri octo.Leiden, Petrus Leffen, 1655.4to. With 2 title-pages in red and black, one with woodcut publisher's device and one with woodcut decoration. With a folding engraved portrait of the author (not always present), 1 woodcut illustration in the text, 1 factotum, 1 tailpiece, and decorative woodcut initials from 3 series. Contemporary vellum.

(8), 51, (1 blank), 57-578, (12); (56), 265 pp. Alden & Landis 669/117 (De Conversione); JCB III, p183 (De Conversione); Leclerc 910 (De Conversione); Muller, America 997 (De Conversione); Sabin VIII, p. 426 (De Conversione); STCN (6 and 8 copies); for the author: NNBW VIII, col. 843.First edition of two works by Johannes Hoornbeek setting out his heated and uncompromising views on how to deal with Jews and heathens, and with much valuable historical information. The De Conversione, devoted to the conversion of indigenous Americans is here in its second issue with the four-page chapter XXV added at the end. This chapter, following the index, relates to the efforts of Myhew, Eliot, Shepard and others amongst the Indians in New England. The "brilliant and striking" (JCB) portrait was probably an optional extra, for many copies do not include it. Bound before the De Conversione is Hornbeek's Pro Convincendis, his "reply to the Jews" as the Hebrew title calls it, a refutation of various works produced by Menasseh ben Israel on the Jewish religion. The woodcut shows a Roman coin commemorating Vaspasian's capture of Jerusalem A.D. 70, with his portrait on the obverse and a palm tree on the reverse. Hoornbeek was pastor and professor of divinity at the universities of Leiden and Utrecht. He was known for his strict orthodoxy and produced many theological works directed against religious communities whose views differed from his own. He published tracts against the Remonstrants, the Mennonites, Coccejus, the Jewish community and Cartesian philosophy. He published a series of small pamphlets under the title "Disputatio Theologica," including in 1663 a six-page "Disputatio Theologica de Conversione Indorum et Gentillum," clearly the beginnings of his present posthumously published work of 265 pages, edited by D. Stuart, who also added a 44-page preliminary chapter on Hoornbeek's life. The large folding portrait of the author was drawn and engraved by Abraham Santvoort (ca. 1610?-1669). Furthermore with an index of the author's works in Latin and in Dutch.With a library stamp of the Utrechtse Zendingsvereeniging over the printer's mark and a label of the Hendrik Kraemer Instituut. A very good copy. Two interesting publications on religious attitudes towards people with conflicting views and beliefs at home and abroad, especially interesting for the information on religious conversion of American Indians.

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