Out of print.

A Treatise on Regeneration
by Peter van Mastricht
Edited and Introduction by Brandon G. Withrow
Preface by Douglas A. Sweeney
(Soli Deo Gloria: 157358133X)

About
This was my first book project, which I did while earning my M.A. in the history of Christian thought. It reflected my historical interests at the time, particularly because of Peter van Mastricht’s influence on one colonial America’s most-influential thinkers, Jonathan Edwards.

Educated at Utrecht, Leiden, and Heidelberg, Peter van Mastricht (1630-1706) held pastorates in Xanten and Gluckstadt, Germany as well as various areas in Denmark. The Elector of Brandenburg gave him the position of professor of Hebrew and Practical theology at Frankfurt an der Oder. In 1677 van Mastricht, maintaining the same position, returned to Utrecht University to succeed Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676), where he stayed for thirty years until he died.

Van Mastricht’s large theological tome, Theoretico-Practica Theologia, crossed the Atlantic and made it into the hands of theologians such as Jonathan Edwards, who saw his work as better than “any other book in the world, excepting the Bible.” Treatise on Regeneration is an excerpt (and oft-referenced section) from Theoretico-Practica Theologia. I have edited and written the introduction to this republication of the 1769 English translation of this section.