Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
The Schoolmen (though they be none of the soundest Divines) yet of late years, have crept (for a time) into more credit amongst Schools, then the most judicious and Orthodox of our best new writers (Luther, Calvin, Martyr, Bucer, and the rest) and their books were much more vendible, and at a far greater price: But what or wherein lay their pre-eminence?
Not in the light of Divine Grace (whereof most of them were wholly destitute) nor in their skill in Tongues and Polite Literature, (wherein they were Barbarians:) nor in their deeper insight into the holy Scriptures (in which they were far less conversant, then in Peter Lombard, and Aristotle:) but in their rational disputes, with distinct Solidity and Succinct brevity. But in the mean time they corrupted the whole body of Divinity, with many curious and unprofitable questions, with many Philosophical (falsely so called) and vain Notions, and with many subtle devices, to uphold the Church of Rome, in their then prevailing Antichristian Apostacy.
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Not in the light of Divine Grace (whereof most of them were wholly destitute) nor in their skill in Tongues and Polite Literature, (wherein they were Barbarians:) nor in their deeper insight into the holy Scriptures (in which they were far less conversant, then in Peter Lombard, and Aristotle:) but in their rational disputes, with distinct Solidity and Succinct brevity. But in the mean time they corrupted the whole body of Divinity, with many curious and unprofitable questions, with many Philosophical (falsely so called) and vain Notions, and with many subtle devices, to uphold the Church of Rome, in their then prevailing Antichristian Apostacy.
For the reference, see:
John Cotton on the Schoolmen
The Schoolmen (though they be none of the soundest Divines) yet of late years, have crept (for a time) into more credit amongst Schools, then the most judicious and Orthodox of our best new writers…
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