By J P Heering
This learn offers with Hugo Grotius' well-known apologetic paintings De veritate religionis christianae, the Latin model of a Dutch poem which he wrote in 1620 whereas imprisoned in Loevestein, entitled Bewijs van den waren godsdienst. the 1st a part of this publication examines the genesis of the paintings and the advance of the textual content. the center sections provide an research of the explanations that led Grotius to put in writing this paintings and of the resources he most likely used. the ultimate chapters study the notes that Grotius additional to his paintings in 1640 and the reception of the paintings within the author's lifetime. The ebook is illustrated with numerous historic drawings and prints of Grotius and his time.
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32 H. Grotius, Uytlegginghe van het Gebedt ons Heeren Iesu Christ, ghenaemt het Vader-ons (1619). 8 b. The writing of the apologetic work (Bewijs) It did not escape Gerard Vossius that the poems his friend had written in Dutch had been favourably received. On 6 June 1619 he wrote to Maria van Reigersberch: You are sufficiently aware with what joy and admiration that which your husband wrote for his daughter Cornelia about Baptism has been read by everyone. I know several people who have not only read the same with hearty edification, but moreover, although they were otherwise very impassioned and ill-disposed towards your husband, have nevertheless admitted that it must be a sign of no bad conscience and a Christian mind and great knowledge of divine things, to have such striking meditations in such places; and to express them so sweetly and with such skill and art in rhyme.
The fertility of the cause is the only origin of multiplicity that we can see, but God has no cause. Nothing can be imagined by which this god or that could be distinguished from another god. 53 The manuscript also contains a brief paragraph, which forms part of the proof that God is the cause of all things, entitled ‘that matter is not eternal’: From what has just been said, that there can only be one [God], it follows as a certainty that matter is not a self-existent thing, but it too is God’s work.
67: “Inter eos quos cum summa mea voluptate vidi est Franciscus tuus Junius, tibi simillimus tum caetera tum hoc quoque quod nos constanter ac fideliter amat. ” Vossius was Junius’ brother in law. 4 Cf. BW II, no 708 (from Junius, 27 November 1621), pp. 158–9, and BW II, o n 712 (to F. Junius, 15 December 1621), p. 163. Junius became librarian of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel. 5 BW II, no 712, p. 164: “Sex libros meos pro christiana religione conscriptos prodituros propediem arbitror. Multi optant eorum librorum sensus Latino sermone exprimi, quod scio a nemine quam a te rectius praestari posse.
