Matthieu Cottière

Matthieu Cottière (Cotterius) (1581–1656) was a French Reformed pastor at Tours and theological writer.

Life 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.

Cottière became a pastor at Pringé in 1607. He was minister at Tours from 1617 to 1656. and at Charenton in 1631. He married Marguerite (or Marie) Amirault in 1624. They had eight children. who believed that the millennium had begun in the year 1517. He was a follower of John Napier, and an influence on Johann Heinrich Alsted. Apocalypseos Domini Nostri Jesu Christi (1615). There was a letter of dedication to James I of England. Traittez des originales et versions (1619), against the Bible translation of Pierre Coton. 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) Les propheties, touchant l'estat de la religion et de l'eglise des derniers temps (1637) L'Apocalypse, de nostre seigneur Jesus Christ (1642) This is a French translation of the 1615 Latin work. (1644) De Hellenistis et lingua Hellenistica (1646). Opposed Daniel Heinsius, in the controversy he had with Salmasius over the nature of New Testament Greek.

A 1648 work Epistola ad Spanheimum, in the controversy over universal grace and Amyraldism, was answered by Friedrich Spanheim in Epistola ad Cottierum (1648).