79 - Göbel, J.C.

Göbel, J.C. Christianus Vapulans, Or Chronicle of Martyrdom: A Brief and Useful Historical and Theological Reflection on What Pious, God-Fearing, and Innocent Christians Have Had to Suffer and Endure at the Hands of Godless, Merciless Tyrants in This Wicked, Corrupt World Throughout the Ages... Mühlhausen, Eibel 1699. 4°. 3 leaves, 1016 pp., 20 leaves. Blind-stamped, contemporary pigskin binding over wooden boards. (Binding defective, discolored, somewhat worn and rubbed.) VD17 12:119070X - First edition, published posthumously based on a manuscript from the years 1629–1632. Johann Konrad Göbel (1585–1643) served as a pastor in Augsburg from 1616 to 1629; he was expelled during the recatholization and became court preacher in Durlach in 1630, concurrently serving as general superintendent of the Lower Margraviate; In 1632, he was able to return to Augsburg. The work also addresses book burnings, the Inquisition, Jesuits in Japan and India, Jews, popes, sun worshippers, etc. — Slightly yellowed throughout, with some staining in places.