English

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

Small 4to. pp. [12], 163, [1], 195, [1]. Signatures: [ ¶ ]⁴ χ 1 A-X⁴ 2A-3A⁴ 3B². 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. 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. 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’ (Bib# 4103599/Fr# 1

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