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HERMANN WITSIUS (1636-1708)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 762 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERMANN WITSIUS (1636-1708)  , Dutch theologian, was born at Enkhuysen, North Holland, and studied at
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Groningen,
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Leiden and Utrecht . He was ordained to the
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ministry, becoming pastor at Westwoud in 1656 and afterwards at Wormeren, Goesen and Leeuwaarden, and became professor of divinity successively at
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Franeker (1675) and at Utrecht (168o) . In 1698 he went to Leiden as the successor of Friedrich Spanheim the younger (1632-1701) . He died at Leiden on the 22nd of
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October 1708 . Witsius tried to mediate between the orthodox
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theology and the " federal "
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system of Johannes Cocceius, but did not succeed in pleasing either party . The more important of his
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works are: Judaeus christianizans—circa principia fidei. et SS . Trinitatem (Utrecht, 1661); De oeconomia foederum 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 prophetic() (Franeker, 1678); Exercitationes sacrae in symbolum quad apostolorum dicitur et in orationem Dominicam (Franeker, 1681) ; Miscellanea sacra (Utrecht, 1692-1700, 2 vols.) .

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