[2] He was born in Amsterdam, and studied at the University of Leiden, where he made a lifelong friendship with Gisbertus Voetius.
[3] With Voetius he opposed the appointment of Conrad Vorstius at Leiden, after the death of Jacobus Arminius.
[3] One journey in 1615 took him from Saumur to Basel, with a manuscript of Philippe de Mornay based on the Pugio Fidei of Ramón Martí.
[11] He moved to the University of Franeker in the province of Fryslan, where Johannes Cocceius had arrived shortly before.
[12][13] His Theologica opera omnia were published in 1684;[25] the editor Johannes à Marck was his grandson.