Models of Divinity

...ancient Creeds, Canons of Councils, and since the Confessions and Catechismes whither of whole Churches or of particular men, their Summes, Institutions, Systems, Syntagmes, Synopses, or by what ever other name you call such Modells of Divinity, as orderly lay down together such divine truths as are scattered up and down in the Scripture, or explain such as there seem to be something obscure, and so present them in a full and clear distinct view, for the better help, especially of a weaker eye against the fascinations of juggling Impostors.

 

Anthony Tuckney, A Good Day Well Improved, or Five Sermons (London, UK: J.F., 1656), 247-248