‎LA MOTHE, CLAUDE GROTESTE DE.‎
‎Erbauliche Abhandlung von der Demuth Welcher noch beygefuget sind: Einige Zeugnisse H. Schrift, Des frommen Thoma von Kempis Heilige Betrachtungen.‎

‎Leipzig & Wolfenbuttel, Meisner, 1729. 8vo. In a very nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Corners bumped. A very nice and clean copy. (10), 341, (50) pp. ‎

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‎The rare first German translation of De la Mothe’s edifying treatise on humility and humbleness. Claude Grostete de la Mothe (1647–1713), ”theologian, was born at Orleans in 1647, and was the son of Jacques Grostête de la Buffière, a member of the Paris bar, and an elder of the protestant church at Charenton. He assumed, according to custom, the name of one of his father's estates. He graduated in law at Orleans University 1664, and in the following year joined the Paris bar but in 1676, having abandoned law for theology, he became protestant pastor at Lizy, near Melun. In 1682 he accepted a call to Rouen, but returned to Lizy on finding that no successor could be obtained, and was secretary of the provincial synod held there. On the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685, he sought refuge in London with his wife. Marie Berthe, daughter of a Paris banker, was naturalised in 1668, and was minister first of the Swallow Street, and then, from 1694 till his death, of the Savoy Church. In 1712 he was elected a member of the Berlin Royal Society in 1713 he collected subscriptions in England for the Huguenots released from the French galleys and he died in London 30 Sept. 1713. La Mothe's father abjured protestantism, and his brother, Marin des Mahis, an ex-pastor become a canon of Orleans. La Mothe published 'Two Discourses relating to the Divinity of our Saviour,' London, 1693, 'The Inspiration of the New Testament asserted and explained,' London, 1694, and several treatises in French, one of them in defence of the Camisard prophets.” (DNB).‎