Cocceius, Johannes High Orthodoxy Calvinism Reformed Theology Christianity

Johannes Cocceius(1603-1669)was one of the leading exponents of covenant or federal theology. He taught that before the Fall, as much as after it, the relation between God and man was a covenant. The first covenant was a Covenant of Works. For this was substituted, after the Fall, the Covenant of Grace, to fulfil which the coming of Jesus Christ was necessary. He was the founder of a school of theologians who were called after him Cocceians. His theology was founded entirely on the Bible, and he did much to promote and encourage the study of the original text. His most valuable work was his Lexicon et Comment arms Sermonis Hebraici el Chaldaici (Leiden, 1669), which has been frequently republished; his theology is fully expounded in his Summa Doclrinae de Foedere et Testamento Dei (1648).

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