LIPSIUS, Justus.

Politica. Dat is Regeringe van Landen en Steden.Delft, Adriaan Gerritsen, 1623. WITH: COORNHERT, Dirck. Proces vant Ketterdoden ende Dwang der Conscientien. ... Het eerste deel Politijck.Gouda, Jasper Tournay, 1590. 8vo. 2 works in 1 volume. The Lipsius with an engraved title-page and cast "woodcut" initial letters, the Coornhert with interlaced gothic captials. Seventeenth-century vellum, red edges.

(16), 286, (2 blank); 338, (14), 72 pp. Bibl. Belg. C-95 & L-463; Typ. Batava 1245 (Coornhert).Two influential and opposing works on the relation between government and religion, the Coornhert in its first and the Lipsius in its second (Dutch) edition. Lipsius discusses government and sovereignty in regard to promoting religious uniformity within a state. Intended as a guidebook for sovereign rulers, with chapters on the moral qualities a sovereign should posses, on political insight, the army and the necessity of defending one's country, as well as the practical side of sovereign rule involving decisions concerning religious minorities. Coornhert discusses freedom of conscience, writing in response to Lipsius's views on religious uniformity as put forward in the Politica, first published in the same year. Coornhert's work consists of a series of quotations from Lipsius's work followed by Coornhert's objections. It is the first published dialogue between Lipsius and Coornhert on this subject. Though titled as volume one (Politics), it and the second volume (Religion) can also be viewed as separate works. The initial letters in the Lipsius, first introduced around 1614, were originally cut in wood but quickly spread to many printers in the form of sand castings, a technique that soon became common in the Netherlands. They are best known for their use at the press of William Brewster in Leiden before he sailed America on the Mayflower.With a 1695 ownership inscription of Symon Jansen of Amsterdam, in Scharwoudt (Scharwoude, north of Alkmaar), the owner's signature of the Baptist theologian Howard Osgood, and the embossed stamp of the library of Rochester Theological Seminary on the first title page. A good copy, with a few pages somewhat dog-eared. Inside back hinge separated from book block. Lipsius and Coornhert on religious uniformity versus freedom of conscience.

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