PHILIPP See also:VAN See also:LIMBORCH (1633-1712)
, Dutch Remonstrant theologian, was See also:born on the 19th of See also:June 1633, at See also:Amsterdam, where his See also:father was a lawyer
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He received his See also:education at See also:Utrecht, at See also:Leiden, in his native See also:city, and finally at Utrecht University, which he entered in 1652
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In 1657 he became a Remonstrant pastor at See also:Gouda, and in 1667 he was transferred to Amsterdam, where, in the following See also:year, the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:professor of See also:theology in the Remonstrant See also:seminary was added to his See also:pastoral See also:charge
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He was a friend of See also:John See also:Locke
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He died at Amsterdam on the 3oth of See also:April 1712
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His most important See also:work, Institutiones theologiae christianae, ad praxin pietatis et promotionem pacis christianae unite directae (Amsterdam, 1686, 5th ed., 1735), is a full and clear exposition of the See also:system of See also:Simon See also:Episcopius and See also:Stephan Curcellaeus
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The See also:fourth edition (171g) included a See also:posthumous " Relatio historica de origine et progressu controversiarum in foederato Belgio de praedestinatione." See also:Limborch also wrote De veritate religionis Christianae See also:arnica collatio cum erudito Judaeo (Gouda, 1687) ; Historia Inquisitionis (1692), in four books prefixed to the " See also:Liber Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tolosanae" (1307–1323); and Commentarius in Acta Apostolorum et in Epistolas ad See also:Romanos et ad Hebraeos (See also:Rotterdam, 1711)
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His editorial labours included the publication of various See also:works of his predecessors, and of Epistolae ecclesiasticae praestantium ac eruditorum virorum (Amsterdam, 1684), chiefly by Jakobus See also:Arminius, Joannes Uytenbogardus, Konrad Vorstius (1569-1622), See also:Gerhard See also:Vossius (1577-1649), See also:Hugo See also:Grotius, Simon Episcopius (his See also:grand-See also:uncle) and Gaspar Barlaeus; they are of See also:great value for the See also:history of Arminianism
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An See also:English See also:translation of the Theologia was published in 1702 by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
Jones (A See also:Complete System or See also:Body of Divinity, both Speculative and See also:Practical, founded on Scripture and See also:Reason, See also:London, 17o2); and a translation of the Historia Inquisitions, by See also:Samuel See also:Chandler, with " a large introduction concerning the rise and progress of persecution and the real and pretended causes of it " prefixed, appeared in 1731
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See See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie
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