‎DIEST, HEINRICH VON.‎
‎Conciones paradigmaticae, in quibus proponuntur ac disponuntur omnis generis textus biblici, doctrinales - [ON THE ART OF SERMONIZING]‎

‎Arnhemiae, Hagium, 1665. 4to. In contemporary full with title in contemporary hand to spine. Wear and soiling to extremities. First leaves slightly soiling and vague damp to upper margin throughout. Small piece of paper cut out of the title-page, not touching the text. (22), 771, (2), 73, (2) pp. ‎

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‎The rare first edition of Diest’s theological work on the art of sermonizing. It organizes various biblical texts—such as doctrinal, consolatory, admonitory, promissory, historical, allegorical, parabolic and typological—into exemplary formats. “Diest, Heinrich a German theologian, was born at Altena, in Westphalia, in 1595. He studied at Dortmund, Siegen, and Basle, and continued his studies at Heidelberg but was obliged to leave that city at the time of the religious disputes, and returned to Basle, to pass his examinations for the doctor's degree, in 1621. Until 1624 he lived at Leyden as a private teacher. He was appointed minister of the Gospel at Emmerich, and in 1629 professor of theology and Hebrew in the University of Harderwick. In 1641 he went to Deventer in the same capacity, and died there in 1673, leaving, among many other works, De Ratione Studii Theologici (Harderwick, 1634)” (McClintock & James Strong, The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature). ‎