System of Sacred Theology · §2.14.4 · Ludwig Crocius

Porismata I: highest beatitude is not fleshly pleasure or fortune's secondaries

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II. From this the following porismata are inferred. (1) Man's highest beatitude is not the pleasure of the flesh.

(2) Nor is it in secondary things under divine providence it blinds mortals; entangles the most prudently planned with the worst outcomes; afflicts with great sadness; makes men insolent; and keeps a strange constancy in its very mutability.

Latin

II. Hinc inferuntur sequentia porismata. 1. Summa hominis beatitudo non est voluptas carnis. 2. Neque est in rebus secundis divinae providentiae subjectis — quia mortales caecos reddit; prudentissime cogitata pessimis successibus implicat; ingenti tristitia afficit; facit ut insololescant; variam in mutabilitate constantiam servat.

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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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