Methodus Sacrae Scripturae in publicis tum praelectionibus tum concionibus utiliter atque intelligenter tractandae

that in Evangelical schools, sacred Theology—that is, the simple treatment of divine Scripture, which is entirely intended for the glory of God and the consolation of consciences—has almost entirely been twisted and turned into a certain empty logic and an affected imitation of Sorbonic refers to the scholastic debates of the Sorbonne in Paris questions and Summaries. It has turned into nothing more than an empty and curious torture of the mind and a display for the teachers themselves. Although I had written these things to you before, not once, they did not satisfy you. You say that there is such weakness of talent in most candidates for sacred Theology (for to you and your erudition, which will easily find a method for itself, this writing of mine is not at all necessary)—you say, I repeat, that there is such weakness in many, that although they are frequently engaged in the reading of Sacred Scripture, they scarcely notice that supreme and most perfect method that they might imitate. And if they do observe any [method], it is accommodated rather to certain individual heads of Theology treated in those passages than to the universal method of teaching and treating Scripture. Just as that disputation of Paul in the first part of the Epistle to the Romans, concerning the causes of our salvation, is of that special argument: likewise, that other one in the second part of the same Epistle, concerning the election and reprobation of men, and the predestination of God, is singular and accommodated to that treatment.