RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Cluny Cocceiuc
was chairman of the executive committee of the Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Missions held in New York in 1900 and was a deputy to the Missions of the Reformed Church from Oct., 1904, to May, 1905. He has written Far Hence : a Budget of Letters from Our Mission Fields in Asia (New York, 1893).
COBB, SANFORD HOADLEY: Presbyterian; b. in New York Feb. 4, 1838. He was graduated at Yale in 1858 and Princeton Theological Seminary in 1862, was pastor of Reformed churches at Schoharie, N. Y. (1864-71), and Saugerties, N. Y. (1871-83), the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Grand Rapids, Mich. (1885-94), and the Presbyterian Church of Greenwich, Conn. (1900- 1901). He made a tour of the world in 1883-84, visiting the various mission fields, and has written The Story of the Palatines (New York, 1897) and The Rise of Religious Liberty in America (1902).
COBB, SYLVANUS: Universalist; b. at Norway, Me., July 17, 1798; d. in East Boston, Mass., Oct. 31, 1866. His early life was that of a New England farmer's son of the time. He became a Universalist before reaching his majority, began to preach in 1820, was ordained in 1821, and settled in Waterville, Me., where he organized the first Universalist church in the State in 1826. He was pastor at Maiden, Mass., 1828-37, removed to Waltham in 1838, and to East Boston in 1841. Much of his time was given to evangelizing tours which made him widely known as preacher and lecturer. He was a member of the Maine and Massachusetts legislatures. In 1839 he began the publication of The Christian Freeman and Family Visitor, a weekly paper devoted to Universalism and the antielavery and temperance causes, and continued it till 1862, when it was united with The Trumpet, Mr. Cobb remaining as editor till 1864. In 1858-59 he carried on discussions in The Freeman with the Rev. Nehemiah Adams on the subject of endless punishment, and with the Rev. C. F Hudson upon annihilationism, which were afterward published in book form. He wrote A Compend of Christian Divinity (Boston, 1845) and The New Testament with Explanatory Notes and Practical Observations (1864).
Bibliography: S. Cobb, Autobiography, with Memoir by S. Cobb, Jr., Boston, 1867 (the Autobiography goes to his forty-first year and is continued in the Memoir).
COBLENZ ARTICLES. See Ems, Congress of. COCCEIUS, JOHANNES, AND HIS SCHOOL.
I. Johannes Cocceius. Doctrines (§3).
Life and Character ( § 1 ). II. His School. Literary Works (§2).
I. Johannes Cocceius: Dutch theologian; b. I'fiRQ Aug. 9, 1603; d. at Leyden Nov. 4,
1669. He was the son of the municipal secretary iimann Koch. Early in life he showed extraordinary ability in the ancient languages, and his knowledge of Greek was deepened through his association with Metrophanes Kritopulos, who for a time lived at Bremen. Among his theological teachers was Ludwig Crocius. In 1625 he went to iiamburg to continue his Hebrew and rabbinic
studies under a learned Jew. In the year 1629, to complete his theological education and "to escape the dissolute life of the German universities," Coch (so he wrote his name until that year) went to Franeker, Holland. He had as teacher there, besides Maccovius and Amesius [William Ames]| the great Orientalist Sixtinus Amana, at whose suggestion he published Talmudic studies which
brought him the recognition of Grotius. I. Life After a short visit to other Dutch uniand varsities he returned to Bremen and Character, accepted in 1630 the professorship of
Biblical philology at the Gymnasium lUustre. The University of Franeker called him in 1636 to the chair of Hebrew. His commentaries on passages about Antichrist and his " Introduction to Ephesians " brought him a theological professorship in 1643. As successor to Fr. Spanheim the elder in 1650, he moved to Leyden. His peaceful character, which even opponents such as the worthy Voetius duly acknowledged, made an agreeable impression in that age of unmeasured wrangling. Though full of pure piety, he withdrew from the common life of the church, for as a German he never felt at home in the precision of strict Dutch Calvinism.
As an author he was extremely productive. The " Collected Works " of Cocceius, completed later, appeared in eight volumes, Amsterdam, 1673-75; a 2d ed., revised and corrected, Frankfort, 1689, repr., 1702; inferior ed., 10 vols., Amsterdam, 1701, and 2 vols.. Opera anecdota, 1706, principally letters. Previously unprinted letters appear in the Thesaurus of Hottinger, xvi. 34. His works may be arranged as follows: (1) Commentaries, which treat of the principal books of the Bible, viz., Job, Ps.,
Eccles., Cant., Jer., Mai., John, Rom., 2. Literary Gal.-Col., Tim.-Titus, Heb., Jude, Works. Rev. (2) Works on Biblical Theology;
Summa doctrina de fcedere et testamento Dei, Leyden, 1648, enlarged ed., 1654; Summa theologicE ex Sacris Scripturis repetita, Leyden, 1662, reprinted, Amsterdam and Geneva, 1665; vol. vi. of his " Collected Works," Amsterdam ed., contains his Aphorismi per universam theologiam; finally his last work, Explicatio catecheseos Heydelbergensis, setting forth his system of doctrine. (3) Dogmatics and Ethics; Disputationes de via
salutis ; Brevis repetitio quorundam illustrium locorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti qui de Antichristo agunt; an anti-Socinian polemic in justification of an edict of Sept. 19, 1653, Equitis Poloni (Jonas Schliting?) A poZogto . examinato; several tracts directed against the Jesuits Walenburg and Masenius, Sacrae Scripturce potentia demonstrata, Jac. Macenii factata probatio Scripturaria, Admonitio de principio fidei ecclesiw reformatce, De ecclesia et Babylone disquisitio, and a number of tracts on the Sabbath. (4) Academical Lectures, the most important of which are inaugural addresses given when taking his positions as professor or as rector in the different universities where he labored. (5) Philological Works; among which may be mentioned Duo tituli thalmudici sanhedrin et maccoth ; Defensio altera auctoritatis verbi divini Veteris Testamenti; the great Lexicon et eommentarius
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