(1626–1661) deplored the supplanting of constructive pastoral work by preoccupation with theological polemics. For the most part these were voices crying in the wilderness. Ministers who were trained in Latin must have experienced great difficulties in translating their theology into the language of the people, and contemporary complaints about the insertion in sermons of quotations in foreign tongues would seem to bear this out. Ministers whose training centered so largely in disputations and polemics