Matthieu Cottière

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.{{cite book|author=Keith D. Stanglin|title=Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation: The Context, Roots, and Shape of the Leiden Debate, 1603-1609|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-2wKN4AuCQC&pg=PA246|access-date=23 May 2012|year=2007|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-15608-1|page=246}}

Cottière became a pastor at Pringé in 1607. He was minister at Tours from 1617 to 1656. He was a Huguenot deputy at the national synod of Alais in 1620, where he defended the orthodoxy of the Albigensians,{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.cairn.info/revue-historique-2006-2-page-259.htm Yves Krumenacker, La généalogie imaginaire de la Réforme protestante] and at Charenton in 1631.{{cite book|author=Emile Haag|author-link=Emile Haag|title=La France protestante|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lTK5wWpeDKIC&pg=PA78|access-date=23 May 2012|year=1853|publisher=Rue St Dominique d'enfer|pages=78–9}} He married Marguerite (or Marie) Amirault in 1624.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.[http://boisseau.xavier.free.fr/html/saumur/DECOUPAGE%20DE%20SAUMUR/ORIGINAL%20FRANCAIS.htm online]. They had eight children. A son Isaac also went into the church.

Cottière was a millennialist,{{cite book|author1=Guillaume Henri Marie Posthumus Meyjes|author2=Henk J. M. Nellen|title=Hugo Grotius, Theologian: Essays in Honour of G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nULvj0SoH6sC&pg=PA214|access-date=23 May 2012|year=1994|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-10000-8|page=214}} who believed that the millennium had begun in the year 1517.{{cite book|author=Howard Hotson|title=Paradise Postponed: Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mcKjRVM4CuIC&pg=PA138|access-date=23 May 2012|year=2000|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-7923-6787-1|page=138}} He was a follower of John Napier,Arthur H. Williamson, Scottish National Consciousness in the Age of James VI (1979), p. 34. and an influence on Johann Heinrich Alsted. The Synopsis criticorum of Matthew Poole called him "vir doctus et acutus".{{cite book|author=Matthew Poole|title=Synopsis criticorum aliorumque Sacrae Scripturae interpretum et commentatorum summo studio et fide adornata... a Matthaeo Polo,... ex recensione Johannis Leusden|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rKjc-dGPNCoC&pg=PA1|access-date=23 May 2012|year=1686|publisher=sumtibus J. Ribbii|page=1}}

• Apocalypseos Domini Nostri Jesu Christi (1615).{{cite book|author=Howard Hotson|title=Paradise Postponed: Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mcKjRVM4CuIC&pg=PA206|access-date=23 May 2012|year=2000|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-7923-6787-1|page=206}} There was a letter of dedication to James I of England.{{cite book|author=Francis Potter|author-link=Francis Potter|title=Explicatio numeri bestiae MCLXVI ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3C4UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP21|access-date=23 May 2012|year=1656|publisher=J. Koenig|page=21 note}}
• Traittez des originales et versions (1619), against the Bible translation of Pierre Coton.{{cite book|author1=Augustin de Backer|author2=Aloys de Backer|title=Bibliotheque des ecrivains de la Compagnie de Jesus, ou, Notices bibliographiques: 1. De tous les ouvrages publies par les membres de la Compagnie de Je(sus, depuis la fondation de l'ordre jusqu'a nos jours; 2. Des apologies, des controverses religieuses, des critiques litte(raires et scientifiques suscite(es a( leur sujet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qEcXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA156|access-date=23 May 2012|year=1854|publisher=L. Grandmont-Donders|page=156}}
• 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){{cite book|author=Mathieu Cottière|title=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, et qu'en plusieurs chefs elle est beaucoup plus récente... par Matthieu Cottière,...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jP8jcgAACAAJ|access-date=23 May 2012|year=1636|publisher=P. Chouet}}
• Les propheties, touchant l'estat de la religion et de l'eglise des derniers temps (1637){{cite book|author=Matthieu Cottiers|title=Les propheties, touchant l'estat de la religion et de l'eglise des derniers temps: par lesquelles un notable changement a esté predit, & le temps d'icelui: Ensemble l'accomplissement desdites propheies ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JlWxtwAACAAJ|access-date=23 May 2012|year=1637|publisher=Pierre Chouët}}
• L'Apocalypse, de nostre seigneur Jesus Christ (1642){{cite book|author=Matthieu Cottière|title=L'Apocalypse, de nostre seigneur Jesus Christ: en laquelle le seigneur Jesus glorifié, rend tesmoignage en toute plénitude, tant des choses que des temps: avec interprétation facile, et briève, item préparatifs, tables, et indice, au commencement et à la fin: plus un advis sur l'exposition françoise du livre de l'Apocalypse, donnée au public, l'année 1641 par le sieur Bernardin de Montereul, jésuite|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7b87AAAAcAAJ|access-date=23 May 2012|year=1642|publisher=pour Jean de Tournes}} This is a French translation of the 1615 Latin work. Included (subtitle) was a commentary on a 1641 work on the Apocalypse by the Jesuit Bernardin de Montreuil.
• Esclaircissement sur une principale controverse (1642){{cite book|author=Matthieu Cottière|title=Esclaircissement sur une principale controverse: ou, exposition des paroles de l'Evangile, "Tu es Pierre, et sur cete pierre, etc." où les grands et incommunicables droicts du seigneur, sont maintenus, les grâces conférées au bien-heureux apostre, déduites au long, et prouvé, que l'édifice de la primauté romaine n'a aucun fondement en ces paroles du seigneur: en outre, une seconde discussion des droicts de S. Pierre, et conséquemment de la puissance d'un chef visible, séant où il est assis, sur quoy on peut voir la puissance des Escritures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-b87AAAAcAAJ|access-date=23 May 2012|year=1642|publisher=pour Jean de Tournes}}
• {{lang|fr|Les degrez de consanguinité et d'affinité}} (1644){{cite book|author=Matthieu Cottiere|title=Les degrez de consanguinité et d'affinité, expliquez au regard de leur nature & du droit civil quant aux successions, et au regard du droit divin, civil & canonique en ce qui est des mariages, principalement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a5tZtwAACAAJ|access-date=23 May 2012|year=1644}}
• De Hellenistis et lingua Hellenistica (1646).{{cite book|author=Matthaeo Cotterius|title=De Hellenistis et lingva Hellenistica, exercitationes secundariæ|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aEpKHQAACAAJ|access-date=23 May 2012|year=1646}} Opposed Daniel Heinsius, in the controversy he had with Salmasius over the nature of New Testament Greek.{{cite book|author1=Daniel Georg Morhof|author-link=Daniel Georg Morhof|author2=Møller|author3=Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts|title=Danielis Georgii Morhofii Polyhistor, literarius, philosophicus et practicus cum accessionibus virorum clarissimorum Joannis Frickii et Johannis Molleri,... Editio quarta. Cui praefationem, notitiamque diariorum litterariorum Europae praemisit Jo. Albertu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CapGvN9aT7kC&pg=PA789|access-date=23 May 2012|year=1747|publisher=sumtibus Petri Boeckmanni|page=789|language=la}}

A 1648 work Epistola ad Spanheimum, in the controversy over universal grace and Amyraldism,Amyraldianism, in Edwin Hartshorn Palmer (editor), The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 1, p. 188; [http://www.calvinandcalvinism.com/downloads/Nicole%20defining%20Amyraldianism.pdf PDF]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. was answered by Friedrich Spanheim in Epistola ad Cottierum (1648).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; [https://archive.org/stream/atreatiseonpred01copigoog#page/n561/mode/2up archive.org].

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