Simon Oomius

Simon Oomius or Ooms[1][2] (1 March 1630 – 25 November 1706)[3][2] was a Dutch reformed minister and theologian.

[4] He was born on 1 March 1630 in the village of Heenvliet, on the island of Voorne-Putten.

He was the youngest of the twenty-one children of Cornelis Oomius, a preacher in Heenvliet and a native of Turnhout.

[5][6][4] He studied theology and philosophy, as well as oriental languages, in Utrecht and Leiden, and then started his ministry in Purmerland in 1654.

Thus, according to Oomius, "the object of theology subsumes the realms of this life," which he divided in four: domestic, moral, political or civil, and legal.