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I came across this interesting comment in an early American RP testimony:
John Cocceius was a very learned divine of the Church of Holland, and professor of divinity in the university of Leyden. Men of genius are naturally disposes to be inventive. Originality, the idol to which all men are apt to bow, is the object to which great men direct their principal attention, unless they are restrained by Christian humility. Cocceius aimed at originality, and he succeeded. It is, indeed, much easier for a man of genius to invent an erroneous system, than to discover and illustrate truth.
Reformation Principles Exhibited by the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Part I (New York: Hopkins and Seymour, 1807), p. 86n.
John Cocceius was a very learned divine of the Church of Holland, and professor of divinity in the university of Leyden. Men of genius are naturally disposes to be inventive. Originality, the idol to which all men are apt to bow, is the object to which great men direct their principal attention, unless they are restrained by Christian humility. Cocceius aimed at originality, and he succeeded. It is, indeed, much easier for a man of genius to invent an erroneous system, than to discover and illustrate truth.
Reformation Principles Exhibited by the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Part I (New York: Hopkins and Seymour, 1807), p. 86n.
