Samuel Maresius (1599-1673), by Jacob van Meurs (I)

Samuel Des Marets or Desmarets ( la, Maresius;

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, 1599 – Groningen, 18 May 1673) was a French Protestant theologian.'III. Maréts (Samuel des)' in L.M. Chaudon, ''Dictionnaire Universel, Historique, Critique, et Bibliographique'', 19 Vols (Mame, Paris 1810-1812), XI
pp. 125-26
"né à Oismond en Picardie l'an 1599, avec des dispositions heureuses, étudia à Paris, à Saumur et à Genève."

Life

He was born in Picardy, northern France. He studied in Paris, in Saumur Academy under Gomarus, and in

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at the time of the Synod of Dort. He was ordained in 1620, and preached at

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until a controversy with

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missionaries. Feeling his life was in danger, he left in 1624. which led to an attack on his life. He became professor at the Academy of Sedan (1625), pastor at

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(1632), pastor and professor at 's-Hertogenbosch (1636), and at Groningen (1643). He won a reputation that led to calls to Saumur,

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, and

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. He died at Groningen on 18 May 1673.

Works

He wrote more than one hundred works, including a ''Systhema theologiae'' (Groningen, 1645; 4th ed., 1673, with an appendix giving a list of his writings), worked out in scholastic fashion, which was much used as a textbook. His literary activity was chiefly polemical, against Roman Catholics,

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s, Arminians,

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as represented by Dallaeus, Chiliasm and other views.

Notes

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maresius, Samuel 1599 births 1673 deaths French Calvinist and Reformed theologians 17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians 17th-century French theologians