Becanus is the author of some 37 books, most of them works of polemics.
He developed the art of controversy and taught it in his book : Manuale controversiarum huius temporis published in Wurzburg (1623), that went into more than 50 editions (in the shortened version until the late 18th century).[2]
In De fide haereticis servanda (1607) he defended the view that Protestants and Catholics should observe contracts concluded between one another.[3]
Another book had much success: Analogia veteris et novi Testamenti.
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Werner Raupp: Art. Becanus (Bécan, Verbee[c]k, Van der Bee[c]k; Schellekens, Scell-), Martinus (Martin). In: Frühe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1620–1720. Literaturwissenschaftliches Verfasserlexikon (VL 17), Vol. 1, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2019, Cols. 481–502 (with detailed Bibliography).
^Wim Decock, Trust Beyond Faith. Re-Thinking Contracts with Heretics and Excommunicates in Times of Religious War, Rivista internazionale di diritto comune, 27 (2016), 301-328
^W. B. Patterson, King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (1997), note 139 p. 101.
^Peter Godman, The Saint as Censor: Robert Bellarmine between inquisition and index (2000), p. 203.