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He was born at Enkhuizen on February 12, 1636.
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Dearly-beloved youths, who have been consecrated to the service of god, and WHOM I WARMLY ESTEEM AND LOVE, aS I am employed every day in addressing you personally, so I take the present opportunity of addressing you by a written communication. All my prayers, desires, anxieties, and labours are directed to this one object, that you may be properly instructed in Divine truth, and somewhat prepared for conveying it to others. You will not, I trust, be displeased at being again requested to accept from my hand a small literary gift. I wrote to you formerly, and dedicated to you my Dissertations on the Apostle s Creed. That labour, I have had abundant opportunities of knowing, was not in vain in the Lord. There were, and still are some persons who acknowledge that they derived from it some little assistance in explaining to the Christian people the most important myste Verae theosophiee studiosis. 1C or. xv. 58. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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He was born at Enkhuizen on February 12, 1636.
He studied at Groningen, Leiden and Utrecht.
He was ordained to the ministry, becoming pastor at Westwoud in 1656 and afterwards at Wormeren, Goesen and Leeuwaarden, and became professor of divinity successively at Franeker (1675) and at Utrecht (1680). In 1698 he went to Leiden as the successor of Friedrich Spanheim the younger (1632 - 1701). He died at Leiden on the 22nd of October 1708.
Witsius tried to mediate between the orthodox theology and the " federal " system of Johannes Cocceius, but did not succeed in pleasing either party. The more important of his works are: Judaeus christianizans-circa principia fidci et SS. Trinitatem (Utrecht, 1661); De oeconomia fnedtrum Dei cum hominibus (1677, still regarded as one of the clearest and most suggestive expositions of the so-called " federal " theology); Diatribe de septem epistolarum apocalypticarum sensu historico ac prophetico (Franeker, 1678); Exercitationes sacrae in symbolum quod apostolorum dicitur et in orationem Dominicam (Franeker, 1681); Miscellanea sacra (Utrecht, 1692 - 1700, 2 vols. ) .
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Although himself a member of the federalistic school, he was in no way blind to the value of the scholastically established dogmatic system of the Church. In the end, he did not succeed in pleasing either party.