System of Sacred Theology · §1.10.1 · Ludwig Crocius

Chapter 10: On the principle of sacred theology dependent on the first and ordered to it

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CHAPTER TEN On the principle of sacred theology dependent on the first and ordered to it

So far we have explained the first principle of sacred theology.

There follows that which depends on the first and is ordered to it.

By directing some believable matter to Sacred Scripture as the first principle, it makes that matter credible.

By disposing the hearer through declaration or proof, it invites him to believe.

Latin

CAPUT DECIMUM. De principio S.S. Theologiae a primo dependente & ad illud ordinato. Hactenus explicavimus primum sacrae Theologiae principium: sequitur dependens a primo, et ad illud ordinatum; quod ad primum, sacram videlicet scripturam, dirigendo rem aliquam credibilem facit, & ad credendum per declarationem aut probationem disponendo invitat.

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Ludwig Crocius's System of Sacred Theology (Bremen, 1636), all four books: theology and its rule in Scripture; man's last end, death and the resurrection; God, the Trinity, creation, providence and sin; and the grace of Christ, the Word and sacraments, faith, the Christian life and prayer.

Ludwig Crocius (1586–1655) taught theology and philosophy at Bremen and sat as a delegate at the Synod of Dort (1618–1619). A Calvinist of the irenic school, he spent his career seeking common ground between the Reformed and Lutheran churches.

His System of Sacred Theology (Bremen, 1636) is a full Reformed dogmatics in the high-orthodox style: precise definitions, ordered questions, objections raised and answered.

Date1636 AD (Bremen; Reformed professor)

EditionSyntagma sacrae theologiae (Bremen: Berthold Villerian, 1636)

English follows the 1636 Bremen Latin (Berthold Villerian), read chapter by chapter from the SLUB Dresden page images, with a machine reading of the same pages as a check. No modern English was copied. The author index at the end of the volume is not translated.

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