System of Sacred Theology · §1.2.11 · Ludwig Crocius

Revelation is immediate or mediate; immediate revelation is given to God's messengers by secret inspiration

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XI. Revelation is also immediate or mediate. Immediate revelation belongs generally to the ambassadors; mediate, to those to whom they are sent. I say "generally," because sometimes even those who are not ambassadors receive it for their own instruction — as Joseph did (Matthew 1:20; Matthew 2:13; still more, Matthew 2:12).

XII. Immediate revelation is that by which God disclosed his word to his ambassadors through secret inspiration and set it on their mouth to be announced to others.

Latin

XI. Estque immediata aut mediata. Illa fere legatorum est, haec vero eorum ad quos legantur. Fere dico, quia aliquando etiam iis, qui non sunt legati, conceditur sui ipsorum informationem, ut Josepho Mat. 1. 20. & 2. 13. magis, ibidem v. 12. XII. Immediata, qua Deus legatis suis verbum suum per arcanam inspirationem patefecit, eorumque ori imposuit aliis renunciandum.

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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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VD17 14:684303C. SLUB id335860389.

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