Title: A treatise concerning the right use of the Fathers, In the Decision of the Controversies that are at this day in Religion. Written in French by John Daille, Minister of the Gospel in the Reformed Church at Paris
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4to.<span style="color:#212529;"> </span>pp. [12], 163, [1], 195, [1]. <span style="color:#212529;">Signatures: [</span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);">¶</span><span style="color:#212529;">]⁴
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Leaf 2R2 missigned Qq2; page 43 of first sequence and pages 32, 56 and 103 of
second sequence misnumbered 33, 42, 57 and 130 respectively. Consists of two
parts; "The second book" (caption title) begins new pagination on
2A1r.</span> Bound in old panelled calf, rebacked. Title in red and black,
headpieces, initials. Apparently lacks an unsigned leaf between ¶4 and A1,
headed ‘The Testimonies of the Lord Faulkand [and three others] concerning this
learned book’, and signed ‘T. S.’, and ‘Chr. Coll. / Aug 3. 1651’, which
appears to have been a late insertion. Annotation on front endpapers and top of
title page.</span></p><p></p><p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background:#FFFFFF;">



</p><p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">First
edition in English, translated by Thomas Smith of Christ’s College, Cambridge
(1624-1661, priest and champion of the Church of England, arabist, later
University Librarian), of Daillé’s ‘Du Vrai Emploi des Pères’ (1632). A
prolific protestant controversialist of the non-conformist Charante area, and
long associated with the Du Plessis-Mornay family, Daillé (Joannes Dalleus,
1594-1670) figures among the preeminent French skeptics of papally-slanted
church history. ‘Du Vrai Emploi’<i> </i>(Bib#
4103599/Fr# 1582 in this collection) is perhaps the best known of his
‘demystifications’ of ancient patristic and ecumenical texts championed by
Baronio and others, among Roman Catholic apologists, writings whose
authenticity Daillé repeatedly questioned over a long literary career. His
investigation of the anachronistic writings of Dionysius ‘the Areopagite,’ and
the forged epistles of St. Ignatius of Antioch – retuned to in 1666, with ‘De
Scriptis Dionyssii Areopagiticae et Ignatii Antiochorum nominibus circumferetur
Libri duo (Bib# 741196/Fr# 100),’ where he also took on the newly-questioned
‘Testamonium Flavianum’ of Josephus – was particularly admired by Thomas
Traherne in ‘Roman Forgeries’ (London, 1673). See D. Wing (ed.), Short-title
Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British
America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols.
New York, 1982-98 (2<sup>nd</sup> ed.), D 118.</span></p><p></p><p></p>

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