The Three Sects

Or,

On the Three Most Famous Sects among the Jews: the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes

For the understanding of various passages of both Testaments and of ancient writers, and as an answer to the recent little book by Johannes Drusius, On the Hasidaeans.

Three Books

By Nicolaus Serarius of the Society of Jesus, Doctor of Sacred Theology and Professor in the Academy of Mainz.

With imperial privilege and the permission of superiors.

Mainz, from the printing house of Balthasar Lippius.

In the year 1604.

Emblem Verse

The cross, the pine, the mountains, the wheel, the miter, the crown, and the crozier, O Prince, are emblems owed to your virtue.

If you fasten the miter, the wheels, and the crozier to the cross, then the pine-crown from your native mountain is yours.