Willem Teellinck bio

This PDF is an interesting short little bio of a Dutch Second Reformation founding father Willem Teellinck. It's interesting because Teellinck wrote the Path of True Godliness, and as the bio shows he knew the problem when Calvinists focus too much on doctrine in an intellectual sense and get to the point where they ridicule practice, and more emotional understanding. Teellinck just said you need all three. Which is obvious. It also notes that Teellinck became somewhat of a mystic in his later years. This is interesting too because this is an element in Calvin himself, and the fact is, the Bible leads you into these realms. Not cartoonish, cliched mystical nonsense, but real, on-the-mark, orthodox doctrine based practical doing of the faith. The Work provides a language for this (the Work would be called 'mysticism' by Calvinists today and back then if they were made known of it). Yet I want to stress Teellinck was all along a straight Calvinist. He understood biblical doctrine at its hardcore, un-watered-down level and accepted it. It is just an example to show the various elements in Calvinism where Work understanding and practice - the practice of godliness - fit in with the hardcore biblical doctrine. They aren't mutually exclusive...