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See also:WITSIUS, See also:HERMANN (1636-1708) , Dutch theologian, was See also:born at Enkhuysen, See also:North See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, and studied at See also:Groningen, See also:Leiden and See also:Utrecht. He was ordained to the See also:ministry, becoming pastor at Westwoud in 1656 and afterwards at Wormeren, Goesen and Leeuwaarden, and became See also:professor of divinity successively at See also:Franeker (1675) and at Utrecht (168o). In 1698 he went to Leiden as the successor of See also:Friedrich Spanheim the younger (1632-1701). He died at Leiden on the 22nd of See also:October 1708.
Witsius tried to mediate between the orthodox See also:theology and the " federal " See also:system of Johannes See also:Cocceius, but did not succeed in pleasing either party. The more important of his See also: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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