Download or read book The Devotion of Collecting written by Forrest C. Strickland and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventeenth century, Dutch ministers built libraries and wrote books to fulfill their divine calling to guard the faith as it was entrusted to them and to encourage others in sound doctrine.