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On the floodings of 1740-41 in Gelderland as the punishment of God - Authorized by the signature of the author

THEMMEN, Wilhelmus.
Gots regtveerdige gerigtshandel, met de inwoonders van Neerlant, door het gewelt van winden en waateren. Om den vloed hunner steigerende sonden door den vloed van ooverloopende rivieren gevoelig te bestraffen, en den sorgeloosen hoop teegens het bruysen der vyandlyke volcken te waartschouwen; op dat lant en kerke door hun heïermagt niet schielyk ooverompelt, en met al hun heerlykheit verslonden werden. Vervat in eene verhandelinge van den uyterlyken en geestelyken waatervloed. Ter geleegenheit van dien hoogen kersvloed van het jaar 1740. Waar door een meenigte van huysen, schueren, hoeven en ackers, soo in de Betuwe, als in 't Land van Maas en Waal, Kuyk en Ravestein, Heusden en Altena, de Graafschappen van Buuren en Kuilenburg, als ook de Tieler- en Alblasser-waard en meer andere, jammerlyk ooverstroomt syn. Waar by nog een kort byvoegsel van de laatste inbreuk der Zeedycken, door dien onverwagten storm van den 28. en 29 April (1741), waar door het zee-waater veele landenby Amersfoort, Nykerk, en elders, ooverloopen en deerlyk beschaadigt heeft.

Woodcut initials and tailpieces.



Arnhem, for the widow of Cornelis van Heuven, 1741. 8vo. Contemporary calf, ribbed spine with title lettered in gold. Woodcut initials and tailpieces. (40), 70, 298 pp.

First and only edition of an edifying protestant religious work on the theological implications of disasters in general and floodings in particular, published only half a year after the disastrous flooding of the rivers Maas and Waal around Christmas 1740 which inundated large parts of the Dutch province Gelderland like the Betuwe, Altena, Lant van Maas en Waal, Heusden, Buuren and Culemborg.
Wilhelmus Themmen (1696-1764) was an orthodox minister at Arnhem who wrote the book to make clear that it was God who punished the Dutch population by opposing this flood of water against the flood of serious sins perpetrated by the Dutch in recent times. He also wants to warn for future disasters and adds prayers and lamentations to avert these disasters.
Themmen dedicated the book to Anna Margarieta, baroness of Bentink, widow of Arent Baron of Wassenaar, Lord of Duivenvoorde, Voorschoten, etc., dated Arnhem, 15 May 1741 (p. (3-31)). The fore-word on p. (32-40) is dated Arnhem 15 June 1741. At the end is a 'Naaricht' with reports of the latest storms (p. 291-294) and an addendum with the damage in Groningen and East Friesland which was the result of the flooding on Christmas 1717.
Good copy, authorized by the author: his autograph signature is on the verso of title.- (Binding sl. rubbed).
Van der Aa VII, p.29; NNBW X, 1021.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Gelderland  History  Prayer Books  Protestantism 

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