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Click for preview Simon van Velzen was a powerful preacher of the gospel. He was a reformer of the church of Christ in the Netherlands in the Secession of 1834. He was a seminary professor who influenced hundreds of future Reformed ministers. He was a faithful husband and devoted father. In his ow
His father, also named Simon, was a boarding school keeper, and his mother’s name was Neeltje Johanna Geselschap[19]. The family had their ecclesiastical membership in the apostate State church. Van Velzen’s childhood education was undoubtedly steeped in the humanistic philosophies of the Enlightenm
For this work Christ used a number of God-fearing men, men whose names ought to be familiar to every student of church history: De Cock, Scholte, Brummelkamp, Van Raalte. And Van Velzen. His Life Simon van Velzen was born on December 14, 1809, in Amsterdam. He was baptized and raised in the apostat
Protestant Reformed Theological Journal Vol. 46, No. 2 6 child, a son whom they named Simon after his father.10 Being faith- ful members of the Hervormde Kerk in Amsterdam, Simon’s parents raised their son in this church, and he was catechized there until his studies removed him from his parents’ ho
April 2021 87 Book Reviews Watchman on the Walls: The Life and Influence of Simon van Velzen, by Joshua Engelsma. Jenison: Reformed Free Publishing Association, 2021. Pp. 229. $26.50 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 978-1944555733. [Reviewed by Robert P. Swierenga] Students of Dutch Reformed history have wa
Albertus Van Raalte