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id as one, aa prooeding the adrent of the Redeemer. The fall oif man waa self caoaedf and not necessitated ^ any act of God (Bona earn operatttr m nobis Deus MM fMid)j bat all his posterity were involved with Adam in the guilt and corse of his sin. This required • Mediator who could not be of the number needing vedemption, and yet must be a partaker of their na- tare; a problem that was solved by the Son of Grod being made man. He, standing as the sponsor of the eternal covenant, gave unto the Father tiie obedience that waa due from men, and also endured the penalty of death, the curse for sin, thereby making a true ex- piation and atonement.
Cocceius limits the death of Christ in its full force to the elect, but he asserts that Christ was "a victim of BO great preciousness and sufficiency that the whole world, and all men without exception coming to him, can find sure and perfect salvation in him."
In respect to most doctrines he does not depart ftom the Reformed Church ; but there is a spiritual life and power in his handling of them which takes them out of the sphere of a cold and lifeless orthodoxy. He was a man mighty in the Spirit, and fiur in advance of most men of hia time in his apprehension of the work of God in Christ. Where he fails in clear sight, we still feel that noble instincts are working in him. His errors, as in regard to the Lord's day, were partly the fhiit of his desire to vindicate fbr the Church her Christian lib- erty of walking always in the Spirit. He' saw clearly the bondage under which the Law brought men, and he looked npon the Sabbath given f^om Sinai as a yoke to which those whom Christ has made f^^e should not be in subjection. In this, as in many things, he held but half the truth, not discerning the tneSam of divine ordinances; but he is not to be ranked with the lawless spirits who would break down all restraints upon the licentiousness of the flesh. He was among the the first in modem times to teach the doctrine of a spiritual dispensation of gloiy, in distino- tion fh>m a visible kingdom of Christ, and so far did he carry it as to find nothing of the resurrection in the last chapters of the Apocalypse. But he firmly held the fiuth of the Church as to the final resurrection of the body and the awards df the judgment.
The views of Cocceius were adopted and fhriher de- veloped by a number of prominent theologians of the Refinmed Church of Holland and other countries. His fbUowers were commonly designated by the name Coccejans. The foremost among the writers of this school in the province of systematic theology are Momma, Witsins, Burmann, and Tan Til (see these ar- ticles) ; in exegetical literature, the greatest and most celebrated member of the school was Vitringa (q. v.), while the pious hymnologist Jodokus von Todenstein snd Dr. F. A. Lunpe exercised a considerable influ- ence upon the practical life of the Church of their times. His C^fera Theological including his Summa doct. de faden ei tettamento (Leyd. 1648), his Lex, Hebr, et Chald. V, 71, and other writings, were published at Amsterdam (1676-78, 8 vols. fol. ; 2d ed. 10 vols, fol., 2 vols. Opera dviKSora, 1701). His Life by his son, J. H., is ^ven in vol. viiL See Herzog, BeaJUEnnf- Upp. ii, 765; Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen^Lex, ii, 646; Moeheim, Chtrdi Hiti. cent, xvii, pt. ii, ch. ii ; Gass, ProL Theoiogie, ii, 258 ; Hagenbach, Hiit, o/Doctrinee, voL ii; Domer, Ge$cktdiie der ProUttanL Theologies p. 462 sq. ; Fairbaim, Tjipology; Fairbaim, ffermmeulic- alMaimal,
Cochin-China. See Anam.
CcxdOaras, JoHAmrBS (proper name DtXmech\ was bom in 1479 at Wendelstein, near NOmberg; be- came rector in KOmberg, 1511 ; in 1527, dean at Frank- fart; finally, canon of Breslau, in which office he died, 1562. He waa one of the most violent opponents of tfae Refbrmation. He attended the Diet of Worms , where he beeame a sort of volunteer aid to Al-
exander, the papal nunck). He is charged with hav- ing sought to induce Luther to give up his safe-con- duct, in order to put him in the power of the legate ; but CochlsBua afterwards denied that this was his pur- pose. He was also present at the Diets of Ratisbon, 1526, and of Augsbuig, 1580. At the latter, with £ck, Faber, and Wimpina, he undertook to refhte the Augs- burg Confession. His "refutation** was read before the Diet August 8. On the death of £ck (1548), Coch- 1«U8 took his plaoe aa the leading champion of the anti-Reformers. He wrote a tirade against Melanc- thon, entitled PkHippiecBy addressed to the emperor. In 1546 he was active at the colloquy of Ratisbon, against Bucer and Bli^r. His numerous pamphlets are full of violence and personalities. Among them are Bocktpiel Afartmi Luthen (Mainz, 1581); Luihenu Septicepe (Biainz, 1529) ; Bitioria Bumtarum (Mainz, 1549 ; De actU and aeriptU LvOkeri (1549, foL); Specu- lum drca Misaam; De emendanda EccUeiaj 1539, 8vo. ^Dupin, Eeehe. HisL cent xvi, p. 456 ; Wetzer u. Welte, Jr«rcAe»-Z;«r. ii, 647 ; Pierer, {7fttperRi^Z>2aon, iv, 270; Ranke, Bittoty of ike Beformation, ill, 806; Hoefer, Now, Biog, Ginirale^ x, 955.