722 - Theology - Dippel, Johann Conrad. A Shepherd and a Flock: Or, An Infallible Method for Bringing All Sects and Religions into the One True Church and Religion, and for Uniting Them Permanently Without Any Syncretism. Drafted and published by Christianum Democritum (i.e., Johann Konrad Dippel) for the reasons mentioned in the preceding report. With an engraved frontispiece. Amsterdam, available from Henrich Betkio, 1706 (i.e., Hamburg, Liebezeit), 1706. 12 leaves, 84 (err. 100) pp. 16 x 9.5 cm. New cover.

Theology - Dippel, Johann Conrad. A Shepherd and a Flock: Or, An Infallible Method for Bringing All Sects and Religions into the One True Church and Religion, and for Uniting Them Permanently Without Any Syncretism. Drafted and published by Christianum Democritum (i.e., Johann Konrad Dippel) for the reasons mentioned in the preceding report. With an engraved frontispiece. Amsterdam, available from Henrich Betkio, 1706 (i.e., Hamburg, Liebezeit), 1706. 12 leaves, 84 (err. 100) pp. 16 x 9.5 cm. New cover. First edition. - Kosch DLL III, 304 - Realenz. IV, 703 - Rosenthal, Bibl. Mag. 4539 - Weller, Druckorte I, p. 57. - The frontispiece features an allegory of the triumph of truth. - The Protestant theologian Dippel (1673–1734) turned to medicine and alchemy in 1704. Initially won over to Pietism by G. Arnold, he later rejected it as a substitute for the institutional church, which he opposed (NDB III, 737f). - The page numbering jumps from p. 80 to p. 97. - Slightly browned due to the paper; otherwise a good copy. *