Matthieu Cottière (Cotterius) (1581–1656)
was a French Reformed pastor at
Tours
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and theological writer.
Life
His parents were Simon Cottière or Couttière and Françoise Ribbe. He studied theology at
Geneva
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to 1604, presenting a dissertation on justification. He then moved on to the
University of Leiden
Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of Le ...
, and took part in the series of debates on
predestination
Predestination, in theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul. Explanations of predestination often seek to address the paradox of free will, whereby G ...
and justification between
Arminius
Arminius ( 18/17 BC – 21 AD) was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who is best known for commanding an alliance of Germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD, in which three Roman legions under the command of ge ...
and
Gomarus.
Cottière became a pastor at
Pringé in 1607. He was minister at Tours from 1617 to 1656.
He was a Huguenot deputy at the national synod of Alais in 1620, where he defended the orthodoxy of the
Albigensians
Catharism (; from the grc, καθαροί, katharoi, "the pure ones") was a Christian dualist or Gnostic movement between the 12th and 14th centuries which thrived in Southern Europe, particularly in northern Italy and southern France. Foll ...
, and at Charenton in 1631.
He married Marguerite (or Marie) Amirault in 1624. They had eight children.
A son Isaac also went into the church.
Works
Cottière was a
millennialist
Millennialism (from millennium, Latin for "a thousand years") or chiliasm (from the Greek equivalent) is a belief advanced by some religious denominations that a Golden Age or Paradise will occur on Earth prior to the final judgment and future ...
, who believed that the millennium had begun in the year 1517. He was a follower of
John Napier
John Napier of Merchiston (; 1 February 1550 – 4 April 1617), nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston. His Latinized name was Ioann ...
, and an influence on
Johann Heinrich Alsted
Johann Heinrich Alsted (March 1588 – November 9, 1638), "the true parent of all the Encyclopædias", s:Budget of Paradoxes/O. was a German-born Transylvanian Saxon Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and ...
.
The ''
Synopsis criticorum'' of
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole (1624–1679) was an English Non-conformist theologian and biblical commentator.
Life to 1662
He was born at York, the son of Francis Pole, but he spelled his name Poole, and in Latin Polus; his mother was a daughter of Alderman T ...
called him "vir doctus et acutus".
*''Apocalypseos Domini Nostri Jesu Christi'' (1615). There was a letter of dedication to
James I of England
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and King of Ireland, Ireland as James I from the Union of the Crowns, union of the Scottish and Eng ...
.
*''Traittez des originales et versions'' (1619), against the Bible translation of
Pierre Coton
Pierre Coton (7 March 1564, at Néronde in Forez – 19 March 1626, at Paris) was a French Jesuit and royal confessor.
Life
Coton studied law at Paris and Bourges, entered the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-five, and was sent to Milan to ...
.
*''Paradoxe, que l'Église romaine, en ce qu'elle a de différent des Églises dites réformées, n'est ancienne que de quatre cents ans environ'' (1636)
*''Les propheties, touchant l'estat de la religion et de l'eglise des derniers temps'' (1637)
*''L'Apocalypse, de nostre seigneur Jesus Christ'' (1642)
This is a French translation of the 1615 Latin work.
Included (subtitle) was a commentary on a 1641 work on the Apocalypse by the Jesuit
Bernardin de Montreuil.
*''Esclaircissement sur une principale controverse'' (1642)
* (1644)
*''De Hellenistis et lingua Hellenistica'' (1646). Opposed
Daniel Heinsius
Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), ...
, in the controversy he had with
Salmasius
Claude Saumaise (15 April 1588 – 3 September 1653), also known by the Latin name Claudius Salmasius, was a French classical scholar.
Life
Salmasius was born at Semur-en-Auxois in Burgundy. His father, a counsellor of the parlement of Dijon, sen ...
over the nature of
New Testament Greek
Koine Greek (; Koine el, ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος, hē koinè diálektos, the common dialect; ), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-reg ...
.
A 1648 work ''Epistola ad Spanheimum'', in the controversy over
universal grace and
Amyraldism
Amyraldism (sometimes Amyraldianism) is a Calvinist doctrine. It is also known as the School of Saumur, post redemptionism, moderate Calvinism, or hypothetical universalism. It is one of several hypothetical universalist systems.
Amyraldism is th ...
, was answered by
Friedrich Spanheim
Friedrich Spanheim the elder (January 1, 1600, Amberg – May 14, 1649, Leiden) was a Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden.
Life
He entered in 1614 the University of Heidelberg where he studied philology and philosophy, a ...
in ''Epistola ad Cottierum'' (1648).
Walter Arthur Copinger
Walter Arthur Copinger (14 April 1847 – 13 March 1910) was an English professor of law, antiquary and bibliographer.
Early life and education
Copinger was born on 14 April 1847 at Clapham, the second son of Charles Louis George Emanuel Copin ...
, ''A Treatise on Predestination, Election and Grace, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical; to which is added a bibliography of the subject'' (1889), p. lxxv
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Notes
External links
CERL page
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1581 births
1656 deaths
Huguenots
French Calvinist and Reformed ministers
16th-century Calvinist and Reformed ministers
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16th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians
16th-century French theologians