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This biting satire and brilliant apologetic from the Reformation entertains and educates as it exposes the follies and vices of Roman Catholicism. The book shared popularity with Erasmus' Praise of Folly as the two most popular books among the Protestants of the sixteenth century. A skillful diplomat and theologian, Marnix submits all the peculiar dogmas, and the whole policy of the Roman Catholic Church, to the most subtle criticism, taking himself as a defender. The biographer of Marnix, Edgar Quinet, states: ""No one can read Marnix to the end and believe any longer in Catholic dogma. It will become for him as the site of a church that has been demolished and abandoned to the whistling and laughter of the winds; a final form of paganism exposed in all its nakedness; the scatterd remains of another Diana of the Ephesians; and above these ruins the conscience of modern humanity, courageously seeking, examining and tracing for itself a return to God and Liberty through the Gospel.""

The Bee hive of the Romishe Churche. Wherein the Authour (Isaac Rabbotenu) a zealous Protestant, under the person of a superstitious Papist, doth so driely refell the grose opinions of Popery, and so divinely defend the articles of Christianitie, that ... there is not a booke to be founde ... sweeter for thy comforte. In answer to G. Hervet's"Missive ... aen de verdoolde van den Christen geloove." Translated out of Dutch into Englisshe by George Gilpin the Elder. MS. notes. B.L.

Isaac RABBOTENU (pseud. [i.e. Philips van Marnix, Heer van St. Aldegonde.])

Published: 1598

Total Pages: 830


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