PHILIP VAN, a theologian of the Arminian or Remonstrant party, was born at Amsterdam, 19th June 1633. After receiving a good elementary education in his native city, he entered the University of Utrecht in 1652, and studied there for two years. In 1657 he became minister of a Remonstrant church in Gouda; and, in 1658, was transferred to Amsterdam, where, in the following year, he added to his pastoral duties those of professor of theology to his own sect. He died in 1712. Many eminent men in foreign countries, and, among others, Locke and Tillotson, were his correspondents. His most important works are:—Praestantium ac eruditorum virorum Epistolae Ecclesiasticae et Theologicae, Amsterdam, 1660, 1684, and 1704; Theologia Christiana, Amsterdam, 1686 and 1730, containing a full exposition of the tenets of the Remonstrants; De Veritate Religiosis Christiana, Gouda, 1687; Historia Inquisitionis, Amsterdam, 1692, translated into English, with an introduction by Dr Samuel Chandler, London, 1731. An English translation of his Theologia, with improvements from Wilkins, Tillotson, Scott, and others, was published by W. Joces, in 2 volumes, London, 1702. Limborch also edited the works of his relative, Episcopus.