Beza and the Lombardian Formula

Beza siezed upon Andreae’s mention of the Lombardian formula as an opportunity to express his dissatisfaction with it. This constitutes, perhaps, the first published rejection of the formula by a Reformed theologian. Beza admitted that while there is a sense in which the formula might be rightly affirmed, it is nevertheless exceedingly ambiguous, even barbarous.

 

Michael Lynch, John Davenant’s Hypothetical Universalism (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021), 54