Melchior Leydecker

From Encyclopedia Reformata

Melchior Leydecker (1642–1721), Dutch Calvinistic theologian and Professor at Utrecht in the line of Voetius

Contents 1 Life and Work 2 Defense of the Reformed Faith 3 Biblical Studies 4 Bibliography 4.1 Writings 4.2 English (editor) 4.3 Reference

Life and Work

Melchior was born at Middelburg on March 11, 1642. He studied in Utrecht under Voetius and Hoornbeek and at Leyden under Hoornbeek and Cocceius. When yet student at the university Leydecker had paid special attention to Biblical studies, and, guided by a learned rabbi, made rapid strides in the exploration of Biblical lore. Melchior Leydekker entered the ministry when only twenty years of age. He became pastor in the province of Zealand in 1662. After serving for fifteen years as pastor in different places of Zealand. At the age of thirty-six he was made professor at Utrecht (1678), Voetius having died two years earlier. He emphasized sound orthodoxy and the practice of piety after the example of Voetius. He was a man of wide reading and had a thorough knowledge of Oriental languages and was praised for his labors in the field of Church History. While opposing the Cocceians he was less scholastic in his method than Voetius and Hoornbeek. Herman Bavinck says,

Leydecker, a disciple of Voetius and opponent of Cocceius, attempted to combine the Trinitarian division with the federalist in such as way that the successive economies of grace were related to the three Persons and the threefold activity within the Trinity. (Reformed Dogmatics, Vol 1, p. 104; cf. Louis Berkhof, Introduction to Systematic Theology, p. 72)

This showed a positive solution to the approach of Coccecius by reorienting reformed theology again to God (like Calvin) and not to the history of redemption. However his example was not carefully considered and forgotten in the theological changes brought in by the so-called enlightenment. Jonathan Israel desribes his leading role in the Voetian-Cocceain polemics at the latter part of the 17th and early part of the 18th centuries. Leydecker enabled Utrecht to remain the stronghold of confessional Calvinist orthodoxy though encroachments which came in the efforts to insall the Cocceians Campegius Vitringa, and then the rationalist, Herman Alexander Röell. He stood firm against such compromises of the Christian faith though the University sought to suppress debate. Leydecker continued to labor in Utrecht until his death there on January 6, 1721.

Defense of the Reformed Faith

Melchior was a very learned in theological, rabbinical, and ecclesiastical literature, and distinguished himself by wielding a strong pen in favor of Reformed theology. He was perhaps the last representative of strict Reformed orthodoxy in the Netherlands at the end of the 17th century one of the last outspoken Voetian polemicists. As an ardent exponent of the doctrines of the Reformed Church, he firmly opposed the systems of Cocceius and Descartes, as well as the works of Drusius, Spencer’s book De Legibus Hebraeorum, and even certain views held by Witsius. From his orthodox standpoint he wrote polemical works against the early rationalism of Balthasar Becker and other Cartesians.

Among his theological and polemical works are De veritate Jidei Reformatae ejusdemque sanctitate, s. Comnmentarius ad Catech. Palatin. (Ultrajecti. 1694, 4to); De oeconomia trium personarum in negotio salutis hum. libri iv, quibus universa Reformata fides certis principiis congruo nexu explicatur (Traj. ad Rhen. 1682,12mo); Veritas evangelica troiumphans de erroribus quorumvis seculorum / opus, quo principia fidei Reformatae demonstrantur (Traj. 1688, 4to); and Historia ecclesice Africanae illustrata pro ecclesiae Reformate veritate et libertate (Ultraj. 1690,4to). His wrote powervul controversial works against Cocceius whick discussed the questions with great clearness. Among them we notice his Synopsis controversiarum de foedere et testamento Dei, quae hodie in Belgio moventur (Traj. 1690, 8vo); Vis veritatis s. disquisitionum ad nonnullas controversias, quae hodie in Belgio moventur de oeconomia foederum Dei, libri v (Traj. 1679, 4to); and Fax veritatis (Leidoe, 1677, 4to).

Biblical Studies

When still a youthful student at the university Leydecker had paid special attention to Biblical studies, and guided by a learned rabbi, made rapid strides in the exploration of Biblical lore. Special mention among his Biblical works is his archaeological treatise entitled De Republica Hebraeoarum (Amst. 1704), which is one of the largest repertories ever written on the wide subject of Hebrew antiquities, and exhibits in an eminent degree vast stores of scriptural, rabbinical, and historical learning. Added to the interest of the subject are dissertations on the Hebrew laws and customs, both political and religious, interwoven in a historical narrative, in which the sacred history is developed, by epochs, from the earliest period to the latest. The author, in his progress, learnedly investigates the history, pari passu, of the leading Gentile nations, very much after the manner of Shuckford and Russell in their Connections. This valuable work, on which Leydecker’s fame deserves mainly to depend, is singularly enough ignored in Schweizer’s sketch of the author in Herzog.

While he conceals not his aversion to the “futilities” of the Talmud, he quotes the great rabbis with respect. He also keeps a sharp eye on the extravagancies of Christian writers, and his work censures with evenhanded justice the well-known rabbinism of the Buxtorfs and the Egyptism of Spencer (De Legibus Hebr.). It is only characteristic of this unsparing criticism of the orthodox author that he adds an appendix of severe animadversion against the cosmogony of Thomas Burnet, to whose Theoria telluris he prefixes the predicate profana. The six dissertations of this appendix, whatever may be thought of the author’s views, are valuable for their learning, and interesting as closely bearing on the questions now raised on the Mosaic cosmogony.

Bibliography

Writings

His principal works are: De æconomia trium personarum in negotio salutis humanæ (Utrecht, 1682); Synopsis controversiarum de fædere et testamento Dei (1690); Commentarius in Catech. Heidelberg. sive de veritate et sanctitate fidei Reformatæ (1694); and De republica Hebræorum (2 vols., Amsterdam, 1704-10).

• Apologia adversus infamis libelli, seu dulcissimi Epistolii scriptorem [i.e. P. Burman] / Leydekker, Melchior / Ultrajecti / 1706 / 21 cm. (4to) / Latin / Cambridge
• Assertationes theologicæ de ecclesia, etc. Praes. M. Leydecker. / Cocle Nicolaus / Leydekker Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum: F. Halma / 1687 / 4o. / British Library
• De Historia Jansenismi libri VI: quibus de Cornelii Jansenii vita et morte, nec non de ipsius & sequacium dogmatibus disseritur / Leydekker, Melchior / Halma, François [printer] / Gouwen, Gilliam van der [engraver] / Trajecti ad Rhenum [i.e. Utrecht]: Apud Franciscum Halmam, Academiae Typographum / 1695 / [60], 668, [8]p, [1] leaf of plates: engraved port. frontispiece; 19cm (8vo) / Latin / Engraved portrait frontispiece of Cornelius Jansenius captioned “Cornelius Ianssenius, episcopus Yprensis” and signed G. v. Gouwen. “Index rerum memorabilium”, p. [669-676] T.p. in red and black, with printer’s device bearing motto “vivitur ingenio” / Jansenius, Cornelius, 1585-1638; Jansenists, Early works to 1800 /
• De historia Jansenismi libri vi. quibus de Cornelii Jansenii vita et morte, nec non de ipsius et sequacium dogmatibus disseritur / Leydekker, Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1698 / 8vo / Latin / National Library of Scotland
• De Oeconomia trium personarum in negotio salutis humanæ libri iv, Quibus universa Reformata fides certis principiis congruo nexu explicatur, etc. (Exercitationes practicæ de cognitione peccati ex lege, Paupertate Spirituali, Ductu Spiritus Sancti.). / Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1682 / 2 pt.; 12mo.
• De Republica Hebræorum. Libri XII: Quibus de sacerrimâ gentis origine & statu in Ægypto; de miraculis divinae providentia in reipublicae constitutione; de theocratia; de iliius sede & civibus; de regimine politico; de religione publica & privatâ disseritur. Porrò antiquitates Judæorum veræ ostenduntur et falsæ corriguntur; historia V.T. exponitur; fabulosae origines gentium, Aegyptiorum, Phoeniciorum, Arabum, Chaldaeorum, Graecorum & Romanorum referuntur: subjicitur Archæologia sacra, qua historia creationis et Diluvii Mosaica contra Burneti profanam telluris theoriam asseritur / Leydekker, Melchior / Stokmans, Isaac [bookseller] / Amstelaedami: Apud Isaacum Stokmans, bibliopolam, op het Rokkin, by de Beurs, in Calvinus / 1704 / thick fol. 2v., [12], 702, 96, [12] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; [14], 638, [12] p: ill. (port.) ; fol / Greek, Ancient [to 1453]; Hebrew; Latin / Added engraved illustrated title pages to both vols; that to vol. 1 reads: “De republica Hebraeorum. Libri XII. M. Leidekkeri scripsit”; that to vol. 2 reads: “Melchioris Leydekkeri De statu reipublicae Hebraeorum libri IX. seu Operis de reipublicae Hebraeorum. Tomus secundus” “Archaeologia sacra, qua de divina rerum omnium origine, secundum Mosis historiam atque adeo de prima Hebraeorum fide disseritur contra gentes & quosdam philosophos ac praesertim adversis T. Burneti achaeologiam philosophicam et profanam telluris theoriam defenditur” (96, [12] p. at end of vol. 1) has divisional half-t.p. and begins new pagination and register De republica Hebræorum. Libri XII Includes indexes Initials, marginal notes Main body of text printed in double columns Signatures: vol. 1: *6 A-4T4 (-4T4) 2A-2M4 a-c2; vol. 2: pi2 (-pi2) *4 2*2 A-4L4 4M2 4N4 (-4N4) Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Hebrew and Greek The folded plate in vol. 1 is an engraved portrait of the author Title pages to both vols. printed in red and black; engraved vignette (device?) with motto “Hic vivitur ingenio” on t.p.s to both vols Vol. 2 has title: “Melchioris Leydeckeri S.S. Theologiae Doctoris & Professoris De vario reipublicæ Hebræorum statu libri novem, theologici, philologici, historici... Amstelaedami, apud Isaacum Stokmans, bibliopolam. Anno M.DCCX” / Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715. Telluris theoria sacra / With a folding frontispiece portrait of the author, an additional engraved titlepage and a final 12 pages of index Includes folded engraved port. of Leydekker signed G. Valck, sculpsit Includes index Title in red and black; engraved title vignette; double columns throughout / Contents: Includes “Archaeologia sacra, qua de divina rerum omnium origine, secundum Mosis historiam....” which has separate titlepage, pagination and signatures. It is a reply to Thomas Burnet’s “Archaeologiae philosophicae....”, London, 1692 and “Telluris theoria sacra....”, London, 1689 / Jews - History - To A.D. 70 / Jews - Antiquities / Jews - History - To 70 A.D, Early works to 1800 / Jews - Antiquities, Early works to 1800
• De republica Hebraeorum MV- Subjicitur archaeologia sacra, qua historia creationis et diluvii Mosaica contra Burneti profanam telluris theoriam asseritur / Leydekker, Melchior / Amstelaedami / 1705 / [1v.]; (fol.) / Latin / Cambridge
• De republica Hebraeorum / Leydekker, Melchior / Amstelaedami / 1707 / (fol.)
• De republica Hebraeorum. Libri XII.... porrò antiquitates Judaeorum verae ostenduntur et falsae corriguntur;... subjicitur archaeologia sacra, qua historia creationis & diluvii mosaica contra Burneti profanam telluris theoriam asseritur / Leydekker, Melchior / Amstelaedami: apud Isaacum Stokmans,... / 1710 / 2v., [12],702,96,[12]p,[1]leaf of plates;[12],638,[12]p: dedication; 36cm. (fol) / Latin / Additional engraved tp to v.1. - The tp to v.2 reads: Melchioris Leydeckeri S.S. theologiae doctoris & professoris De vario reipublicae Hebraeorum statu libri novem / Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715. Telluris theoria sacra / Jews - Antiquities / Jews - History / National Library of Scotland
• De respiratione / Becker, Daniel Christophorus, respondent / Leydekker, Melchior / Ribbius, Joannes [printer] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: ex officina Johannis Ribbii / 1684 / [20] p.; 8ins. / Thesis / Latin / (Disp. med. inaug., Utrecht, Melchior Leydeckerus, praeses) / Manchester
• De vario reipublicæ Hebræorum statu libri novem: theologici, philologici, historici, quibus de regno Israëlis & Judae; statu x. tribuum in exilio Assyriaco, & Jehudaeorum in Babylonico; restitutione reipublicae Hebraeorum per Cyrum; restitutae historia usque ad Alexandrum M.; dehinc ad Hasmonaeos; atque inde ad subjectos imperio R. Judaeos; nec non de illorum gente per nationes dispersa agitur. Plurima de synchonismis gentium & antiquitatibus Assyriorum, Phoenicum, Syrorum, Chaldaeorum, Persarum, illorumque moribus & religione, ac denique Graecorum & Romanorum, inseruntur ...[etc.] / Leydekker, Melchior / Utrecht / 1710 / Amstelaedami: apud Isaacum Stokmans / 1710 / [14], 638, [11] p: ill; 33 cm (fol.) / Latin / Title on engraved additional t.p.: De statu reipublicae Hebraeorum libri IX / Jews - History - To 70 A.D / Jews - Antiquities / Leeds
• De veritate fidei reformatæ, ejusdemque sanctitate libri III, sive, Commentarius ad Catechesin Palatinam: quo principia fidei demonstrantur & theologiæ practicæ medulla exhibetur / Leydekker, Melchior / Ultrajecti: impensis viduae Guiljelmi Clerck / 1694 / 560, 155, [24] p; 21 cm / Latin / Reformed Church - Doctrines // Among his apologetical works / Heidelberger Katechismus / Cambridge
• Disput.... de consiliio ecclesiae Romanae in oppugnanda fide & propaganda infidelitate, pars prima (-tertia) / Leydekker, Melchoir [præs] / Ultrajecti: [s.n.] / 1681 / 3 pts; cm / Latin / Edinburgh
• Disput.... de ductu Spiritu Sancti, pars tertia (-quarta & ultima) / Leydekker, Melchior [præs] / Ultrajecti: [s.n.] / 1680 / 2 pts; cm / Latin / Edinburgh
• Disput.... prima (-duodecima & ultima), de vario Jansenistarum fato / Leydekker, Melchior [præs] / Ultrajecti: [s.n.] / 1680 / 12 pts; cm / Latin / Edinburgh
• Disputatio historico-theologica De epicureo illorum errore,: Qui negant in Deo praescientiam futurorum contingentium: Pars II, / Qua ... sub praesidio ... Melchioris Leydeckeri ... publice defendet Theodorus Becker ... / Utrecht: F. Halma, 1689. / [6+?] p.; 4 . / Bound to #1273. [Sarospatek Collection]
• Disputatio historicotheologica de Epicureo illorum errore qui negant in Deo præscientiam futurorum contingentium. Praes. M. Leydekker. / Brinckhuys Cornelius / Leydekker Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum: F. Halma / 1689 / 4o. / British Library
• Disputatio juridica inauguralis de negotiis gestis quam... ex auctoritate... Melchioris Leydeckeri... pro gradu doctoratus... inter eruditos defendere conabitur Jacobus Leydecker / Leydekker, Jacobus / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1684 / Aberdeen
• Disputatio juridica inauguralis, De bona et mala fide / Haas, Janus de / Water, Willem van de / Leydekker, Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Gulielmi vande Water... / 1715 / 17, [11] p; 40 / Thesis / Latin / De bona et mala fide Signatures: A-C4 D2 Thesis (doctoral) / Good faith (Law) / Bad faith (Law) / Oxford
• Disputatio juridica inauguralis, De bono & malo dolo / Oosterlingh, Joannes de Lannoy Den / Water, Willem van de / Leydekker, Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Gulielmi vande Water... / 1715 / 23, [1] p; 40 / Thesis / Latin / De bono & malo dolo Signatures: A-C4 Thesis (doctoral) / Fraud (Roman law) / Oxford
• Disputatio juridica inauguralis, De similitudine & differentia inter mutuum & commodatum / Slicher, Wigbold / Water, Willem van de / Leydekker, Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Gulielmi vande Water... / 1715 / 17, [3] p; 40 / Thesis / Latin / Signatures: A-B4 C2 Thesis (doctoral) / Roman law, Early works to 1800 / Oxford
• Disputatio juridica inuaguralis de judice quam... ex auctoritate... Johannis Meyeri... pro gradu doctoratus...examini subjicit Johannes Leydecker / Leydekker, Johannes / Harderovici / 1693 / Aberdeen
• Disputatio medica inauguralis de epilepsia. Praes. M. Leydekker. / Buytendyk Gosuinus van / Leydekker Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1715 / pp. 28.; 4o. / Cropped. / British Library
• Disputatio theologica de atheismo Socinistico, quam... sub praesidio D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publice defendet Daniel Le Roy... ad diem 11. Octobr / Le Roy, Daniel / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1684 / [12] p; 20 cm / Latin / Socinianism - Controversial literature - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Disputatio theologica de discrimine legis & euangelii ad mentem Pauli in epist. ad Romanos & ad Galatas. Pars prima, etc. Praes. M. Leydekker. / Best Jacobus / Leydekker Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum: F. Halma / 1687 / 4o. / British Library
• Disputatio theologica de messia exciso post LXII hebdomadas, ad Daniel IX.26 / Brink, Cornelis / Leydekker, Melchior / Water, Willem van de [printer] / Guildhall Library (London, England) / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Guilielmi vande Water... / 1700 / 23, [1] p; 23 cm. (4to) / Thesis / Latin / Imprint date in roman numerals Printer’s device on t.p Thesis / Bible. O.T. Daniel IX, 26, Early works to 1800 / University of London - ULRLS
• Disputatio theologica de ministrorum ecclesiae officio, pars quarta. Sive, de Concionibus / Leydekker, Melchior / Hoornbeek, Johannes / Elzevir, Jean [printer] / Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Johannem Elsevirium... / 1661 / [8] p; 40 / Latin / De Concionibus Signatures: D6 / Clergy, Early works to 1800 / Oxford
• Disputatio theologica de Pelagianismo, quam favente triuno numine, sub praesidio, D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publice defendet Sebastianus à Schalkwyck... ad diem 3. Decembris / Schalkwyck, Sebastianus à / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1684 / [12] p; 20 cm / Latin / Pelagianism - Controversial literature - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Disputatio theologica prior, de Ecclesiae Christianae per Judaismum & Gentilismum oppugnatione & corruptione, quam... sub praesidio... D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Guiljelmus Spang... ad diem 13. Aprilis / Spang, Guiljelmus / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Ultrajecti: Ex officina Meinardi a Dreunen... / 1681 / [12] p; 20 cm / Latin / Christianity - Early church, ca. 30-600 - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Disputatio theologica secunda, De causis salutis, / Quam ... sub praesidio ... Melchioris Leydeckeri ... publice tuebitur Martinus Almasi ... / Utrecht: G. van de Water, 1709. / [2], 10 p.; 4 ° . Bound to #1269. / Van der Aa.4.120. [Sarospatek Collection]
• Disputatio theologica tertia, De causis salutis, / Quam ... sub praesidio ... Melchioris Leydeckeri ... publice tuebitur Johannes Nemeti ... / Utrecht: G. vande Water, 1709. / [2], 10 p.; 4 ° . Bound to #1269. / Van der Aa.4.120. [Sarospatek Collection]
• Disputatio theologica, de morali Jesuitarum theologiâ. Pars quarta, & ultima / Leydekker, Melchior / Hoornbeek, Johannes / Elzevir, Jean [printer] / Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Johannem Elsevirium... / 1660 / [12] p; 40 / Latin / Disputatio theologica, de morali Jesuitarum theologiâ. Pars qvarta, & ultima Signatures: D6 / Jesuits - Theology / Oxford
• Disputationis theologicae de locis V.T. in N.T. citatis, pars posterior, quam... sub praesidio D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Johannes vander Hagen... ad diem 5. Decembris / Hagen, Johannes vander / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1694 / [16] p; 20 cm / Latin / Bible. O.T - Quotations in the New Testament - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Dissertatio historico/theologica, de vulgato nuper Cl. Bekkeri volumine, et Scripturarum authoritate ac veritate, pro Christiana religione apologetica / [Leydekker]./ 12mo. / Ultrajecti, 1692 / Held by: Glasgow
• Dissertatio historico-theologica de Antinomis antiquis & novis, prima & secunda, quam... sub praesidio... D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Jacobus Keyser... ad diem VII. Novemb / Keyser, Jacobus / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1696 / [24] p; 20 cm / Latin / Antinomianism - Controversial literature - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Dissertatio historico-theologica de Antinomis antiquis & novis, quinta & sexta & ultima, quam... sub praesidio... D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Didericus Maertens... ad diem XXV. Novemb / Maertens, Didericus / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1696 / [28] p; 20 cm / Latin / Antinomianism - Controversial literature - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Dissertatio historico-theologica de Antinomis antiquis & novis, tertia & quarta, quam... sub praesidio... D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Petrus Van Royen... ad diem XXI. Novemb / Royen, Petrus van / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1696 / [24] p; 20 cm / Latin / Antinomianism - Controversial literature - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Dissertatio historico-theologica de antinomis antiquis et novis prima[-sexta et ultima.] / Leydekker, Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1696 / 4to / Latin / National Library of Scotland
• Dissertatio historico-theologica de hexaëmero seu sex diebus creationis, quam... sub praesidio... D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Bernhardus Duysing... ad diem XXVII. Februarii / Duysing, Bernhardus / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1697 / [24] p; 20 cm / Latin / Creation - Biblical teaching - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Dissertatio historico-theologica de hexaëmero seu sex diebus creationis, pars secunda, quam... sub praesidio... D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Cornelius Walingius... A. D. 26. November / Walingius, Cornelius / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1698 / [24] p; 20 cm / Latin / Creation - Biblical teaching - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Dissertatio historico-theologica de hexaëmero seu sex diebus creationis, quam... sub praesidio... D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Bernhardus Duysing... ad diem XXVII. Februarii / Duysing, Bernhardus / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1697 / [24] p; 20 cm / Latin / Edinburgh
• Dissertatio historico-theologica, de vulgato nuper Cl. Bekkeri volumine, et Scripturarum authoritate ac veritate, pro Christiana religione apologetica / Leydekker, Melchior / Utrecht / 1692 / 12mo / Latin / Glasgow
• Dissertatio theolgoica de luce primigenia / Leydekker, Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1696 / 4to / Latin / National Library of Scotland
• Dissertationis historico-philologico/theologicae tremendum vindictae divinae monumentum, in perennem memoriam Ananiae et Sapphirae ...: Pars posterior. / Quam ... sub praesidio ... Melchioris Leydeckeri ... publico eruditorum examini subjiciet Johannes Pelsöczi ... / Utrecht: Fr.Halma, 1699. / 4 ° / Bound to #1269. [Sarospatek Collection]
• Dissertationis historico-theologicae de sermone Dei in origine universi, pars tertia & ultima, quam... sub praesidio D. Melchioris Leydeckeri ... publicè defendet Adrianus Reeland... ad diem XXVII. Maji / Reeland, Adrianus / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1696 / [20] p; 20 cm / Latin / Creation - Biblical teaching - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Dissertationis historico-theologicae de Spiritus S. operatione in origine universi, pars secunda et tertia, quam... sub praesidio D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Guilielmus Muller... ad diem XXIX. Februarii / Muller, Guilielmus / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1696 / [24] p; 20 cm / Latin / Creation - Biblical teaching - Early works to 1800 / Holy Spirit - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Dissertationis historico-theologicae de Spiritus S. operatione in origine universi, pars quarta, quam... sub praesidio D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Johannes Doesburgh... ad diem XVIII. Martii / Doesburgh, Johannes / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1696 / [12] p; 20 cm / Latin / Creation - Biblical teaching - Early works to 1800 / Holy Spirit - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Dissertationis theologicae de luce primigenia, pars prima, quam... sub praesidio... D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Henricus Hulscher... ad diem V. Septembris / Hulscher, Henrik / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1696 / [12] p; 20 cm / Latin / Creation - Biblical teaching - Early works to 1800 / Light - Religious aspects - Early works to 1800 / Light and darkness in the Bible - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Dissertationis theologicae de origine mundi Mosaica, pars duodecima & ultima, quam... sub praesidio D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Scipio van Riemsdyck... ad diem 14. Decembris / Riemsdyck, Scipio van / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1695 / [12] p; 20 cm / Latin / Creation - Biblical teaching - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Eere van de Nationale Synode van Dordregt, in den jare 1618 en 1619: voorgestaan en bevestigd tegen de beschuldingen van G. Brand, in syn Historie der Reformatie: met aanmerkingen op zyn sydig verhaal, ontrent de Remonstrantse voorvallen, voor, onder, als na het houden van die Synode / Leydekker, Jacobus / T’Amsterdam: by Isaac Stokman / 1705 / 2v.; 21 cm. (4to) / Dutch / Synod of Dort (1618-1619) / Brandt, Geeraert, 1626-1685. Historie der reformatie / Reformation - Netherlands / Remonstrants / Netherlands - Church history / Cambridge
• Epistola de lectione facillima textus hebraici, absque punctis seu vocalibus, adamicum / Leydekker, Melchior / Ultrajecti / 1689 / 14 cm. (8vo) / Latin / Cambridge
• Exercitatio philologico-theologica de consensu Mohammedanismi et Judaismi, quam... sub praesidio... Melchioris Leydekkeri... publicae omnium censurae exponit Adrianus Reeland... A.D. [29] Maji / Leydekker, Melchior / Reeland, Adrianus / Trajecti ad Rhenum: ex officina Francisci Halma... / 1696 / 65, [1] p; 4o / The date of the disputation has been added in manuscript / Islam - Relations - Judaism / Academic dissertations, Latin, 17th century / Durham
• Exercitatio practica de officiis seu virtutibus quibusdam christianis, pars prima.: Præs. M. Leydeckero / Le Brun Constantinus / Leydekker Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1691 / 4[degree] / Microform / Latin / Original LCN: British Library / Copies available from: British Library Reproductions // Surrogate details: Microfiche. London: British Library, [1987]. 6 fiches; 11x15 cm. (a). Neg: PB.Fiche.132 / Register of Preservation Surrogates
• Exercitatio theologica octava, de symbolo Mosis, ad Deut. vi. 4., etc. Praes. M. Leydekker. / Canneman Guilielmus / Leydekker Melchior / Ultrajecti: Ex officina F. Halma / 1684 / 4o. / British Library
• Exercitatio theologica quarta De symbolo Mosis, ad Deut.VI.4. / Quam ... sub praesidio ... Melchioris Leydeckeri ... publice defendet Fredericus ab Hermkhuysen ... / Utrecht: M. a Dreunen, 1683. / [6] f.; 4 ° . Bound to #1269. [Sarospatek Collection]
• Exercitatio theologica, continens doctrinam veterum de principio fidei, etc. Praes. M. Leydeckerus. / Cock Jacobus / Leydekker Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum: F. Halma / 1686 / 4o. / British Library
• Exercitationis philologico-theologicæ de republica Hebræorum pars prima (secunda), quam... sub præsidio... D. M. Leideckeri... publicè ventilandam proponit Cornelius Brink (Samuel Boon), etc. (Disputationis philologico-theologicæ de republica Hebræorum pars tertia & quarta, quæ sunt de Terra Sancta, quas... sub præsidio... D. M. Leideckeri ... publice ventilandam proponit David Franzius, etc.) / Leydekker Melchior / Franzius David / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1700 / 3 pt.; 4o. / British Library
• Exercitationis theologicae, qua praecipua quaedam dogmata Neopelagiana ex independentia & infinita perfectione divina refutantur, pars prima, quam... sub praesidio... D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Jacobus Hoog... ad diem 10. Decembris / Hoog, Jacobus / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Ultrajecti: Ex officina Meinardi a Dreunen... / 1681 / [12] p; 20 cm / Latin / Pelagianism - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh [Sarospatek Collection]
• Exercitationis theologicae, qua praecipua quaedam dogmata Neopelagiana ex independentia & infinita perfectione divina refutantur, pars secunda, quam... sub praesidio... D. Melchioris Leydeckeri... publicè defendet Jacoeus [sic] Hoog... ad diem 27. Septembris / Hoog, Jacobus / Leydekker, Melchior [praeses] / Ultrajecti: Ex officina Meinardi a Dreunen... / 1682 / [12] p; 20 cm / Latin / Pelagianism - Early works to 1800 / Edinburgh
• Exercitationum historico-theologicarum ad librum Augustini de unitate ecclesiae pars sexta quam... sub praesidio Melchioris Leydeckeri... publice defendet Tobias Mispelblom / Leydekker, Melchior / Mispelblom, Tobias / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1687 / Aberdeen
• Exercitationum theologicarum de oeconomia Trium Personarum in negotio salutis humanae, pars quarta (-quinta, septima-decima) / Leydekker, Melchior [præs] / Ultrajecti: [s.n.] / 1681 / 7 pts; cm / Latin / Edinburgh
• Fax veritatis, seu exercitaiones ad nonnullas controuersias quæ hodie in Belgio potissimum moventur. Multa ex parte theologico-philosophicæ. Præfixa est præfatio de statu Belgicæ ecclesiæ, et suffixa dissertatio de providentia Dei / [Leydecker]./ 4to./ Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), 1677. / Held by: Glasgow / controversial work against Cocceius.
• Funebres laudationes, quibus Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regi, Guilielmo III...., oratores M. Leydekkerus, J. G. Grævius, J. Gronovius, J. Triglandius, A. Gabillonius, justa suprema solemniter fecerunt, etc. / William III. King of Great Britain and Ireland / Gronovius Jacobus / Trigland Jacobus / Leydekker Melchior / Lipsiae / 1703 / 8o. / British Library
• He Aletheia Euangelike thziamxeumene Sive Exercitationes Selectæ Historico-theologicæ: quibus Antiqua Ecclesiæ Doctrina ex monumentis Patrum, ut & Recentis Reformatæ S. S. fides in omnibus Religionis articulis ex Sacris Scripturis exponitur. Optimistique per certos nexus demonstratur rationibus, detectis simul fontibus errorum / Leydekker, Melchior SE- Reformed Protestantism; PBA-226 / Amstelodami: Apud Samuelem Schoonwald, Bibliop / 1712 / 2v.; (4to) / Latin / Sive Exercitationes Selectæ Historico-theologicæ Title at head of fiche: Exercitationes select / Cambridge
• Historia ecclesiae Africanae [et Donatisticae] illustrata pro ecclesiae Reformate veritate et libertate ... Adjectae sunt digressiones / Historia ecclesiae africanae illustrata, qua ecclesiae africanae origo, status, variaque illius fata & interitus exponuntur, et... disseritur pro ecclesiae reformatae veritate & libertate / [Leydecker]./ 2v in 1, map; (4to.) / Ultrajecti, [s.n.], apud viduam Guiljelmi Clerck... 1690 / With a folding map of North Africa / Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 / Africa, North - Religion / Durham Held by: Glasgow, Edinburgh
• Institutio theologiae elencticae: in qua status controversiae perspicue exponitur, praecipua orthodoxorum argumenta proponuntur & vindicantur, & fontes solutionum aperiuntur / Turretin, François / Pictet, Benedict / Leydekker, Melchior ED- Editio nova / Addita est Benedicti Picteti oratio de vita et obitu authoris nec non encomium operis, scribente M.L. / Lugd. Batavor.:, Trajecti ad Rhenum: Apud Fredericum Haring, Ernestum Voskuyl / 1696 / 3v.: port; 21 cm / Latin / First published in Geneva in 1679-1685 Head- and tail-pieces; initials Includes bibliographical references and indexes M.L. is M. Leydekker Vol. 2-3 published without edition statement / Theology, Doctrinal - History - 17th century / Reformed Church - Doctrines / Bible - Evidences, authority, etc, Early works to 1800 / Cambridge / First published in Geneva in 1679-1685 Head- and tail-pieces; initials Includes bibliographical references and indexes M.L. is M. Leydekker Title in red and black Vol. 2-3 published without edition statement / Theology, Doctrinal - History - 17th century / Reformed church - Doctrines / Bible - Evidences, authority, etc - Early works to 1800 / Leeds, Aberdeen, Durham
• Laudatio funebris Gulielmi III / Leydekker, Melchior / Lipsiae / 1703 / 8vo / Latin / National Library of Scotland
• Dissertatio... de vulgato nuper Cl. Bekkeri volumine, et Scripturarum authoritate ac veritate, pro Christiana Religione apologetica. / Leydekker Melchior / Bekker Balthasar / Ultrajecti / 1692 / 8o. / British Library
• M. Zueris van Boxhorn Nederlandsche historie, behelsende de staat van de Nederlandsche kerk voor de Hervorming, mitsgaders de eerste veranderingen in den Godsdienst en leere, neffens de... vervolgingen daar over onstaan in de Nederlanden... tot de tijden toe van Carel de V. Hier is by gevoeght Den Nederlandschen Sulpitius, van Jacobus Baselius... vermeerdert met een voorreden... door Melchior Leydekker ... Met kopere platen [by Kasper Luiken] vercierd. / Boxhorn Marcus Zuerius van / Leydekker Melchior / Luiken Kasper / Utrecht: Hermannus Ribbius / 1700 / 2 pt.: plates; 8o. / The half-title of pt. 1 reads: Historie van de eerste oorspronck, voortganck ende eynde der laetste Nederlandsche beroerten ende oorlogen ... Eerste boeck. No more published. / British Library
• Medulla theologiae practicae, seu meditationes ad Catechesin Heidelbergensem / Leydekker, Melchior / Ultrajecti / 1683 / 1v.; 12mo / Latin / Glasgow
• Medulla theologica concinnata ex scriptis celeberrimorum virorum, Gisberti Voetii, Joh. Hoornbeeck, Andr. Essenii: atque exornata consensu & testimoniis doctiss: theologorum, quorum opera bibliothecam studiosae juventutis queant constituere / Leydekker, Melchior / Zyll, Rudolph van, fl. 1683 [Printer / Bookseller] / Ultrajecti: Typis Rudolphi à Zyll, 1683 / [18], 332, [2]p (12mo) / Held by: Glasgow
• Mysterium pietatis defensum adversus hodierna mysterii iniquitatis consilia, etc. [Followed by “Exercitationes theologicæ, de Ecclesia Dei, et regno Papatus nec non de principiis Synagogæ Romanæ, aliisque necessariis, contra novos Methodistas opponendis.” By M. Leydekker?] / Leydekker Melchior / MYSTERIUM / Ultrajecti: Apud viduam G. Clerk / 1686 / 2 pt.; 8o. / British Library
• Oratio inauguralis de sectanda veritate in amore, etc. / Leydekker Melchior / Ultrajecti / 1678 / 4o. / British Library
• Præs. Exercitationum... ad librum Augustini de Unitate Ecclesiæ pars prima (-septima).... Resp. J. Schalkwyk a Velden (M. van Hoecke, B. Smytegelt, H. Peuteman, P. Daval, T. Mispelblom, A. Harinck). / Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo / Velde Justus Schalkwyk a / Hoecke Marinus van / Leydekker Melchior / Daval Philippus / Harinck Abrahamus / Mispelblom Tobias / Peuteman Hieronymus / Smytegelt Bernardus / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1686 / 7 pt.; 4o. / British Library
• R. Mosis Majemonidis tractatus de Regibus Hebræorum eorumque bellis, præsertim de Rege Messia. [Cap. V. of book XIV. of the Yad hachazakah.] M. Leydecker,... Latine vertit et notis philologicis illustravit. / MOSES BEN MAIMUN / Leydekker Melchior / Roterodami: Apud Petrum vander Slaert / 1699 / pp. 254.; 8o. / British Library
• Relatio historica de Choadja Morado Regis Æthiopiæ quondam anno 1675 et sequentibus ad Batavos misso legato ex Schedis Manuscriptis hausta [by M. L.]. / Leydekker Melchior / 1750 / British Library
• Resp. Disputatio de discrimine legis et evangelii ad mentem Pauli in epist. ad Romanos et ad Galatas. Pars secunda. Præs. M. Leydeckero. / Trassaert Petrus / Leydekker Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1687 / 4o. / British Library
• Resp. Disputatio theologica de Atheismo Socinistico. Præs. M. Leydeckero. / Le Roy Daniel / Leydekker Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1684 / 4o. / British Library
• Resp. Disputatio theologica de Pelagianismo sub Præs. M. Leydeckeri. / Schalkwyk Sebastianus à / Leydekker Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1684 / 4o. / British Library
• Resp. Disputatio theologica de præscriptionibus adversus donatisticam pontificiorum methodum... Præs. M. Leydeckero. / La Noy Joannes / Leydekker Melchior / Ultrajecti / 1685 / 4o. / British Library
• Resp. Disputatio... de testimonio Sp. Sancti in obsignanda S. Scripturæ Divinitate. Pars prima. Præs. M. Leydeckero. / Goyer Nicolaus de / Leydekker Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1687 / 4o. / British Library
• Resp. Disputatio... theologica de Ecclesiæ Christianæ per Judaismum et Gentilismum oppugnatione et corruptione. Præs. M. Leydeckero. / Pottey Petrus / Leydekker Melchior / Ultrajecti / 1681 / 4o. / British Library
• Resp. Disputationes theologicæ duæ exhibentes expositionem... Zachariæ cap. ix. vs. 11.... Præs. M. Leydekkero. / Waldschmidt Joannes Jacobus / Leydekker Melchior / Utrajecti / 1685 / 4o. / British Library
• Resp. Exercitatio... de consensu Mohammedanismi et Judaismi... Præs. M. Leydekkero. / Reland Adrian / Leydekker Melchior / Trajecti ad Rhenum / 1696 / 4o. / British Library
• Sermo Academicus de nuperâ oceani exundatione, ad cujusdam nummi inscriptionem, Idem protector et hostis. / Leydekker, Melchior / Ultrajecti: G. Clerck / 1682 / 24 p; 4to / Latin / National Library of Scotland, British Library
• Synopsis controversiarum de foedere et testamento Dei, quæ hodie in Belgio moventur. Accedit Apologeticus, quo ad iniquas D. Johannis Wajeni censuras modeste respondetur: nec non Exercitatio theologica de S. Scripturæ authoritate ad conscientam adstruenda / Leydecker, Melchior./ 12 mo. , 8vo. / Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1690. / Held by: Glasgow. / His controversial works against Cocceius met with great success, because they discussed the questions with great clearness.
• Veritas euangelica triumphans de erroribus quorumvis saeculorum: opus ... quo principia fidei reformatae demonstrantur, etc / Leydekker, Melchior / Amstelaedami: [s.n.] / 1689 / 3 pts. in 1; cm / Latin / Edinburgh
• Veritas evangelica triumphans de erroribus quorumvis saeculorum, opus historico-theologicum, in duos tomos distributum: quo principia Fidei Reformatae demonstrantur, origines errorum ostenduntur, & doctrina de oeconomia S. S. Trinitatis in Salutis negotio... explicatur & defenditur, opera & studio, melchioris leydeckeri / Leydekker, Melchior / Utrecht: typis Rudolphi a Zyll / 1688 / 2v in 1; 4to / Latin / Title of t.2: De veritate religionis Reformatae seu Evangelicae, libri VII / Reformed Church - Doctrinal and controversial works / Glasgow
• Vis veritatis. Seu disquisitionum ad nonnullas controversias, quæ hodie in Belgio potissimum moventur, de oeconomia foederum Dei. Libri quinque. Suffixa est authoris oratio inauguralis. Ut et Johannis Voet epistola ad amicum de Petri Allingæ praefatione Erotematum decadibus praemissa / Leydecker, Melchior / 4to. / Trajecti ad Rhenum (Utrecht), 1679. / Held by: Glasgow / controversial work against Cocceius

English (editor)

• John Brown of Wamphrey. The life of justification opened: Or, a treatise grounded upon Gal. 2. 11. Wherein the orthodox doctrines of justification by faith, & imputation of Christ’s righteousness is clearly expounded, solidly confirmed, & learnedly vindicated from the various objections of its adversaries. Whereunto are subjoined some arguments against universal redemption... / Brown, John / Koelman, J. / Leydekker, Melchior / [Utrecht?] / 1695 / pp. 563 (4to) / [edited by J. Koelman and M. Leydecker]
• A copy of a letter from the learned Mr. Melch. Leideker, one of the Professors of Theology in the University of Utrecht, to the R. Mr. Ja. Hog, a minister of the Gospel in Scotland: concerning the R. Mr. Jo. Simson Professor of Divinity in Glasgow. Done from the Latine copy into English / Leydekker, Melchior / [Edinburgh?: s.n. / 1717 / 1sheet, [1] p; 31 x 19 cm / Caption title Dated: Nov. 19. An. Ch. 1716 Signed: Melchior Leideker. T.S.P / Simson, John, 1668?-1740 - Adversaries, Early works to 1800 / Leydekker, Melchior, 1642-1721, Correspondence, Early works to 1800 / Hog, James, 1658?-1734, Correspondence, Early works to 1800 / National Library of Scotland

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