‎SCHELSTRATE Emanuel - [ ] Ernest TENTZEL - Edward STILLINGFLEET :‎
‎Collection of 2 theological dissertations: [1] De Disciplina Arcani contra disputationem Ernesti Tentzlii Dissertatio Apologetica per D. Emanuelem A Schelstrate ....[2] Dissertatio de Auctoritate Patriarchali et Metropolitica adversus ..Edvardus Stillingfleet Decanus Londinensis in libro de Originibus Brittanicis.‎

‎ Roma, Typis Sac. Congragat. de Propagandâ Fide. [1] , 1685 , in-4°, 21,5 cm, (18)nn pp + 160 pp + (8)nn pp (last blank). [2] 1687, (10)nn pp + xxiv pp + 114 pp + (4) nn pp (index). Bound in contemporary full calf, raised gilt spine, fine crisp copy with only minor damage to the binding extremities. E. Schelstrate (Antwerp 1649 - Rome 1692) was the head librarian of the Vatican Library, he was highly esteemed by Pope Innocentius XI for whom he wrote the ''Oratio in Funere''. He gained a reputation as one of the first scholars to study church history in a modern scientific way. In the first [1] treatise the author refutes the German protestant Ernest Tentzel's ideas about Transsubstantiation (the change of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.) In the [2] treatise he opposes Edward Stillingfleet for his ideas on the the origine of the British Church ( '' Origines Brittanicae - Or the Antiquities of the British Churches'', published by E. Stillingfleet in 1685). Schelstrate's dissertation opens with a beatifully printed laudatory letter to king James II ''King of Britain, triumphant and victorius defender of the Faith ( in Latin). Illustrated with a fine engraved vignet and a finely engraved initial.‎

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