Matthieu Cottière (Cotterius) (1581–1656)[1][2] was a French Reformed pastor at Tours and theological writer.[3]
Life
His parents were Simon Cottière or Couttière and Françoise Ribbe. He studied theology at Geneva to 1604, presenting a dissertation on justification. He then moved on to the University of Leiden, and took part in the series of debates on predestination and justification between Arminius and Gomarus.[1][2][4]
Cottière became a pastor at Pringé in 1607. He was minister at Tours from 1617 to 1656.[1] He was a Huguenot deputy at the national synod of Alais in 1620, where he defended the orthodoxy of the Albigensians,[5] and at Charenton in 1631.[6] He married Marguerite (or Marie) Amirault in 1624.[7] They had eight children.[2] A son Isaac also went into the church.[6]
Apocalypseos Domini Nostri Jesu Christi (1615).[12] There was a letter of dedication to James I of England.[13]
Traittez des originales et versions (1619), against the Bible translation of Pierre Coton.[14]
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)[15]
Les propheties, touchant l'estat de la religion et de l'eglise des derniers temps (1637)[16]
L'Apocalypse, de nostre seigneur Jesus Christ (1642)[17] This is a French translation of the 1615 Latin work.[1] Included (subtitle) was a commentary on a 1641 work on the Apocalypse by the Jesuit Bernardin de Montreuil.
Esclaircissement sur une principale controverse (1642)[18]
Les degrez de consanguinité et d'affinité (1644)[19]
^ abcSociété de l'histoire du protestantisme français (France) (2002). "Bulletin..."Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français: Études, Documents, Chronique Littéraire. Librairie Droz: 32–. ISSN0037-9050. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
^Jean Luc Tulot, with Bernard Mayaud, Les Réformés de Saumur au temps de l'Edit de Nantes, Société des Lettres, Sciences & Arts du Saumurois, N° 148 bis, novembre 1999.online.
^Walter Arthur Copinger, A Treatise on Predestination, Election and Grace, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical; to which is added a bibliography of the subject (1889), p. lxxv; archive.org.