“Plurima enim sunt Attributa Divina, ad quae explicanda, nisi quod a Philosophia nobis porrigitur, acceptum adferatur, non modo non explicari, sed ne intelligi quidem, nostro quidem iudicio, satis recte possint. Neque statim ex Christi Schola egredimur, cum Lycaeum ingredimur: aut scientas confundimus, quando ad scripturam explicationem artes adhibemus.”
“For there are very many divine attributes that in my opinion cannot be sufficiently explained or even understood unless that which is offered to us by Philosophy is accepted and applied. For we do not immediately leave the School of Christ when we enter the Lycaeum. Nor do we confuse the sciences when we employ the artes in explaining Scripture” (from the letter to the reader which prefaces De Natura Dei)
Girolamo Zanchi (1516-1590), Italian Reformer-one of many Protestant scholastics.
If this topic interests you, check out the excerpt on the doctrine of analogy from Zanchi’s De Natura Dei. I also highly recommend an essay by Harm Goris, “Thomism in Zanchi’s Doctrine of God,” in Reformation and Scholasticism, ed. Willem J. van Asselt and Eef Dekker (Baker Academic: Grand Rapids, MI, 2001), 121-139.