SANDIS, Edwin

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SANDIS, Edwin
Relation of the state of religion and by what designs, and artifices, it has been forged & wrought in various states of these western parts of the world. Translated from the English, with notable additions. Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1626. In-8 (162 x 103 mm) of 4 ff.n.ch., 323 pp. 2 ff.n.ch. Soft ivory vellum, handwritten title on the back (contemporary binding). Brunet, V, 123. Original edition of the French translation by the Genevan pastor Jean Diodati (died in 1649). The additions, in italics in the text, are by Paolo Sarpi. Son of an Anglican prelate, Edwin Sandys (1561-1629) was treasurer of the Dutch West India Company before sitting in the House of Commons. His work is both a text of religious polemic and the first part of a confrontation between the Catholic and Reformed religions. The various points of Roman Catholic orthodoxy are sharply criticized, while denouncing the pretensions or abuses of the pope but without giving a negative portrait of Clement VIII who, although embodying "the power of the world" with regard to the nations "which in whole or in part are still under his obedience," was "a good man, a good prince, and a good prelate." The jurist and historian Grotius "set great store by this Relation, which was in perfect accord with his own views" (Willems). He made special mention of the chapter entitled De l'union en la religion, which pinpoints the shortcomings of some and others, the cause of preventing any rapprochement. A very good copy.
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