Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Commenting on the discipline of practical theology, Gisbertus Voetius made a very interesting observation:
The English laboured more than other Reformed people in this branch of theology in their days of peace (when popery was suppressed and other sects forbidden), and [William] Perkins, the Homer of practical Englishmen to this day, stands above all.
Gisbertus Voetius, Selectae Disputationes Theologicae (1648-69) in Reformed Dogmatics, ed. and trans. John W. Beardslee III (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965), p. 274.
N.B. Sorry to disappoint some of you, but I do not think that Voetius had Homer Simpson in mind when he expressed these sentiments.
The English laboured more than other Reformed people in this branch of theology in their days of peace (when popery was suppressed and other sects forbidden), and [William] Perkins, the Homer of practical Englishmen to this day, stands above all.
Gisbertus Voetius, Selectae Disputationes Theologicae (1648-69) in Reformed Dogmatics, ed. and trans. John W. Beardslee III (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965), p. 274.
N.B. Sorry to disappoint some of you, but I do not think that Voetius had Homer Simpson in mind when he expressed these sentiments.