Travis Fentiman
Puritan Board Sophomore
Friends,
I am helping to assist on the editing of the Peter van Mastricht volumes for RHB, and am wondering if anyone can help us out in figuring out who the two reformed figures are mentioned after Episcopius in the following excerpt from his Theoretical Practical Theology. Mastricht, of course, was Dutch and was in the late-1600's.
I am helping to assist on the editing of the Peter van Mastricht volumes for RHB, and am wondering if anyone can help us out in figuring out who the two reformed figures are mentioned after Episcopius in the following excerpt from his Theoretical Practical Theology. Mastricht, of course, was Dutch and was in the late-1600's.
"XXIII. It is asked, first, whether there is any covenant of works. The socinianizing Episcopius, so that he might more effectively undermine original corruption, whose propagation, without the covenant of works, can hardly be explained adequately enough, denies that there is such a covenant. Likewise one Reformed theologian and another, only from an itch for novelty, does the same, although not in the same way: the one categorically denies that it exists, the other had denied it before, but now convinced otherwise, acknowledges at least that it exists, but denies it with respect to the promise of eternal life."
Please provide evidence for any proposals. Thank you!