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On life after death by one of the most popular English writers of his days

WATTS, Isaac, Daniël GERDES & Theodorus van SCHELLUYNE.
De toekomende wereld, of redevoeringen over de vreugde en smerten der afgescheide zielen na de dood. Als mede over de heerlykheid en over de vreeslykheid der opstanding. Vooraf gaat een vertoog, om te bewyzen de afgescheide staat der zielen na de dood. By deze Nederduitsche uitgave zyn gevoegt twee briefsgewyze verhandelingen door de heeren Daniel Gerdes en Theodorus van Schelluyne.

Full-page allegorical frontispiece designed and engraved by J.C. Philips dated 1745, with an explanation of the verso of the half-title, woodcut end-pieces and initials.

Full-page allegorical frontispiece designed and engraved by J.C. Philips dated 1745, with an explanation of the verso of the half-title, woodcut end-pieces and initials.

Full-page allegorical frontispiece designed and engraved by J.C. Philips dated 1745, with an explanation of the verso of the half-title, woodcut end-pieces and initials.

Full-page allegorical frontispiece designed and engraved by J.C. Philips dated 1745, with an explanation of the verso of the half-title, woodcut end-pieces and initials.



Amsterdam, Jacobus Haffman, 1746. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. Full-page allegorical frontispiece designed and engraved by J.C. Philips dated 1745, with an explanation of the verso of the half-title, woodcut end-pieces and initials. (12), LXXI (3), 357 pp.

First edition of the translation into Dutch of Isaac Watts' The world to come or, discourses on the joys or sorrows of departed souls at death, and the glory or terror of the resurrection (first edition: London 1739), enlarged with contributions by Daniel Gerdes (1698-1765), Professor of Theology at the University of Groningen and Theodorus van Schelluyne (1692-1776), an Amsterdam minister. A second edition appeared in 1751, a third in 1767. Gerdes is the author of the second preface (pp. I-LXXI), dated Groningen, 20 December 1745, including a letter by Theodorus van Schelluyne, dated Amsterdam 13 October 1745 (pp. V-XXVIII).
The hymn-writer Isaac Watts (Southampton 1674 -1748) was educated at the grammar school from John Pinhorne in Southampton and later at an academy where he learned the classical languages, logic, Hebrew and divinity.
Watts was one of the most popular writers of his day. His educational manuals were still standard works in the middle of the 18th century and the success of Watt's hymns approached that of the new version of the Psalms.

Good copy.- (Some minor marginal staining, binding soiled).
DNB LX, pp. 67-70

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Manuals  Theology 

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