System of Sacred Theology · §2.14.3 · Ludwig Crocius

Citizens of God's kingdom; consists in removal of evils and positive goods

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(3) It belongs to the citizens of God's kingdom (Heb. 11, &c.). (4) It consists both in the removal of contrary evils and in the access of positive goods — the vision of God, glorification, fellowship of the saints, joy. The vision of God is essential to beatitude. God's essence is infinite; this vision if considered statically; what is natural in God; the reason of the persons; another reason of the decrees. Fellowship of the holy angels. The end of eternal life is God's glory. Therefore man's highest beatitude is in God alone.

Latin

3. Est civium regni Dei, Heb. 11 &c. 4. Consistit tum in malorum contrariorum remotione, tum in bonorum positivi accessu — visione Dei, glorificatione, consortio sanctorum, laetitia. Visio Dei est essentiale beatitudinis. Essentia Dei infinita; haec visio si stative consideretur; naturalia in Deo; personarum ratio; decretorum alia ratio. Consortium sanctorum angelorum. Vitae aeternae finis — Dei gloria. Summa igitur hominis beatitudo est in soli Deo.

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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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