, a learned protestant minister, and celebrated professor of divinity
, a learned protestant minister,
and celebrated professor of divinity at Saumur, was
descended from a noble and ancient family, and born in
1596. He gained great credit by his writings against the
Socinians, but held a singular opinion concerning the
imputation of Adam’s sin, which was condemned in a
French synod. He died August 7, 1655, at Saumur, aged
fifty-nine. His works were reprinted at Franeker, 1699,
and 1703, 4to, 2 tom. The first contains a treatise “On
Types;
” treatises on “The imputation of Adam’s first
Sin,
” or, “The order of the Divine Decrees, and on Freewill,
” with an “Abridgment of Theology:
” the second
volume contains his “Disputes against the Socinians,
” the
most important part of his works. He also wrote “An
Examination of the arguments for and against the Sacrifice of the Mass,
” 8vo.