System of Sacred Theology · §2.6.13 · Ludwig Crocius

V. Since the world and its goods will soon perish, cling not; Christian wisdom dismisses the world

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V. Since this world with all its goods will soon perish and cannot grant perpetual quiet and tranquillity to our mind, it is extreme madness and misery so to cling to it that by love of it you lose the true good; but it belongs to Christian wisdom and felicity in this life to send a farewell to the world and its goods, so that after this life you may enjoy the eternal good. Hither looks Paul's warning (1 Corinthians 7:29, 30, 31) and David's (Psalm 49:4, 7, 12, 13, 15, 20, 21).

Latin

V. Cum hic mundus cum omnibus bonis suis brevi interiturus, quietem ac tranquillitatem perpetuam animo nostro largiri nequeat, extrema vesania atque miseriae est, ei ita adhaerere, ut ejus amore verum bonum amittas; Christianae vero sapientiae & felicitatis est, in hac vita mundo ejusque bonis nuntium mittere, ut post hanc aeterno bono fruaris. Huc spectat monitio Pauli, 1.Cor. 7.29.30.31. & Davidis, Psal. 49.4.7.12.13.15.20.21.

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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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