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Primary Sources
De Messia Judaeorum et Christianorum (Utrecht, 1654)
‘t Bedroefde Nederlant, ofte Betooninge van den elendigen toestant onses Vanderlants (Utrecht, 1659)
Judaeus christianizans circa principia fidei et SS. Trinitatem (Utrecht, 1661)
Practycke des Christendoms (Wormer, 1665)
Geestelycke Printen van een Onwedergeborenen op syn beste en een Wedergeborenen op syn slechste (Wormer, 1667)
Twist des Heeren Met Sijn Wyngaert (Leeuwarden, 1669)
De vero Theologo (Franeker, 1675)
De Oeconomia Feoderum Dei cum hominibus (Leeuwarden, 1677)
Exercitationes Sacrae in orationem dominicam
Diatribe de septem epistolarum apocalypticarum sensu historico et prophetico (Franeker, 1678)
De Praestantia Veritatis Evangelicae (Utrecht, 1680)
Exercitationes sacrae in symbolum quod apostolorum dicitur et in orationem Dominicam (Franeker, 1681)
De Efficacia et Utilitate Baptismi in Electis Foederatorum Parentum Infantibus (1693)
Aegyptiaca et Dekaphulon. Sive, De aegyptiacorum sacrorum cum hebraicis collatione libri tres. Et De decem tribubus Israelis liber singularis. Accessit diatribe de legione fulminatrice Christianorum, sub imperatore Marco Aurelio Antonino. (1696)
Animadversiones Irenicae ad Controversias quæ, sub infaustis antinomorum et neonomorum nominibus, in Britannia nunc agitantur (1696)
De Theologo modesto (Leyden, 1698)
Miscellanea sacra (Utrecht, 1692-1700, 2 vols).
Praelectiones de vita et rebus gestis Pauli Apostoli : nec non dissertationum exegeticarum duodecas (Leiden, 1703)
Commentarius in Epistolam Judae Apostoli (Leiden, 1703)
Metelemata Leidensia (1739)
Secondary Sources
Bakker, Nicolaas Tjepko. Miskende Gratie: Van Calvijn Tot Witsius Een Vergelijkende Lezing, Balans Van 150 Jaar Gereformeerde Orthodoxie (Kok, 1991) link
Beach, J. Mark “The Doctrine of the Pactum Salutis in the Covenant Theology of Herman Witsius” Mid-America Journal of Theology 13 (2002): 101–142 link | download
Beach, J. Mark “Introduction to ‘On the Efficacy and Utility of Baptism’” Mid-America Journal of Theology 17 (2006): 121-190 link | download
Beeke, Joel R. “The Life and Theology of Herman Witsius” Puritan Reformed Spirituality (Reformation Heritage Books, 2004) link
Beeke, Joel R. and R.J. Pederson “Herman Witsius” Meet the Puritans (Reformation Heritage Books) link
Beeke, Joel R. and Ramsey, D. Patrick. An Analysis of Herman Witsius’s The Economy of the Covenants (Reformation Heritage Books, 2002) link
Eijnatten, Joris van. “From Modesty to Mediocrity: Regulating Public Dispute, 1670-1840: The Case of Dutch Divines” Common Knowledge Vol 8 No 2 (Spring, 2002): 310 – 32
__________. “Theologus Eruditas, Theologus Modestus: The Early Modern Pastor as Communication Worker” The Pastor Bonus: Dutch Review of Church History (Brill, 2003) link
Fesko, J.V. “Calvin and Witsius on the Mosaic Covenant” The Law is Not of Faith (P & R Publishing, 2008) download | link
Genderen, Jan van. Herman Witsius. Bijdrage tot de kennis der gereformeerde theologie (The Hague, 1953)
Hsia & Nierop. Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge, 2002)
Muller, Richard A. “The Covenant of Works and the Stability of Divine Law in Seventeenth-Century Reformed Orthdoxy: A Study in the Theology of Herman Witsius and Wilhelmus a Brakel” After Calvin (Oxford University Press, 2003) article download
Ramsey, D. Patrick. “Meet Me in the Middle: Herman Witsius and the English Dissenters” Mid-America Journal of Theology Vol 19 (2008): 143 – 64
A. de Reuver, James A. De Jong. Sweet Communion: Trajectories of Spirituality from the Middle Ages Through the Further Reformation. (Baker Academic, 2007) link
Strengholdt, L. “Literatuur Bij De ‘Precise’ Hervormden: Over Herman Witsius en de literatuur van zijn tijd” Documentatieblad Nadere Reformatie 14 (1990), no. 2 (Najaar), p. 73-87 link
Toplady, Augustus M. “Some account of the Life of Herman Witsius, D.D.” Works, Vol. IV (Paternoster, 1825) link
Tertiary Sources
Beeke, Joel R. “Appendix: The Dutch Second Reformation (De Nadere Reformatie)” The Quest for Full Assurance: The Legacy of Calvin and His Successors (Banner of Truth Trust, 1999) link
Martyn, W. Carlos. The Dutch Reformation: A history of the struggle in the Netherlands for civil and religious liberty in the sixteenth century (American Tract Society, 1868) link
Muller, Richard A. Christ and the Decree: Christology and Predestination in Reformed Theology (Baker Academic, 2008) link
________. Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics. Vol. I – IV (Baker Academic, 2003) link
Neele, Adriaan C. Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706) Reformed Orthodoxy: Method and Piety (Brill, 2009) link
Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment Ed. C. R. Trueman and R. S. Clark (Paternoster, 1999) link
Reformation and Scholasticism: An Ecumenical Enterprise Ed. W.J. van Asselt and E. Dekker (Baker, 2001) link
Rehnman, Sebastian “Is the Narrative of Redemptive History Trichotormous or Dichotomous? A problem for federal theology” Nederlands Archief voor kerkgeschiedenis 80 no 3 (2000) 296-308.
Schroeder, Carl J. In Quest of Pentecost: Jodocus van Lodenstein and the Dutch Second Reformation (University Press of America, 2001) link
Tanis, James. Dutch Calvinistic pietism in the middle colonies: A study in the life and theology of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (Martinus Nijhoff, 1968) link
Links
Economy of the Covenants at FederalTheology.org
Economy Book 1 online at Seeking4Truth.com
J.I. Packer’s Introduction to Economy
“Herman Witsius” at Monergism.com
A Summary of Witsius’ Economy by C.M. McMahon @ A Puritan’s Mind
Covenant theology links at Federal Theology.org