System of Sacred Theology · §1.2.15 · Ludwig Crocius

Occult mediate revelation binds by accompanying signs

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XXI. It is occult when God, through his ambassadors, signifies something as divine to others and also employs certain signs — signs whose force drives the messengers to announce and binds the hearers to believe. So God, through Moses, confronted Pharaoh with various signs (Exodus 7-Exodus 10); through Jeremiah he foreshadowed his people's coming ruin by a girdle (Jeremiah 13). Such is the barber's razor (Ezekiel 5:1); such the marriage with a harlot (Hosea 1:2).

Latin

XXI. Occulta est, qua Deus per legatos suos aliquid ut divinum aliis ita significat, ut signa quaedam adhibeat, quorum efficacia illos ad annunciandum impellat, hos vero ad credendum obstringat. Sic Deus per Mosen Pharaoni variis signis, Exod. 7. 8. 9. 10. capp. per Jeremiam populo suo eventuram illi perditionem cingulo praefigurat Jer. 13. Talis est novacula tonsoria, Ezech. 5. 1. Tale matrimonium cum scorto Hosee 1. 2.

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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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