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Besides a number of letters and poems, her literary productions include a translation of Fontenelle's "Plurality of Worlds," and a paraphrase on Van Dale's "De Oraculis Ethnicorum."
This important position of Van Dale with regard to the effectual creed of Europe so that, whether he were read directly or were slighted for a more fashionable expounder, equally in either case it was his doctrines which prevailed must always confer a circumstantial value upon the original dissertations, "De Ethnicorum Oraculis." This original work of Van Dale is a book of considerable extent.
This is the celebrated Antonii Van Dale, "De Ethnicorum Oraculis Dissertationes," which was published at Amsterdam at least as early as the year 1682; that is, one hundred and sixty years ago. And upon the same subject there has been no subsequent book which maintains an equal rank.
The bringing of heathenish or Jewish rites into the church is altogether condemned by them, yea, though the customs and rites of the heathen be received into the church for gaining them, and drawing them to the true religion, yet is it condemned as proceeding ex κακαζηλίᾳ seu prava Ethnicorum imitatione.
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