System of Sacred Theology · §3.1.1 · Ludwig Crocius

BOOK THREE / CHAPTER ONE. On man, as he can be subjected to God and beatified, in common

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BOOK THREE. On the subject, namely man, insofar as he is a citizen of the kingdom of God, capable of the right and life of God and of eternal salvation.

CHAPTER ONE. On man, as he can be subjected to God and beatified, in common.

Thus far there has been the first thing treated by the common part of sacred Theology, namely the absolutely highest and last end of man: there follows the second, namely the subject, which is man, insofar as he can, as a citizen, be subjected to God his eternal King, by whom he was created and redeemed, be united to Him, be beatified forever, and attain his highest end.

Latin

LIBER TERTIUS, De subjecto, nempe homine, qua ut civis regni Dei, juris, vitaeque Dei & salutis aeternae capax est. CAPUT PRIMUM, De homine, qua Deo subjici & beari potest, communiter. Adhuc fuit primum, de quo agit sacrae Theologiae pars communis, nempe finis hominis absolute summus & ultimus: Sequitur alterum, subjectum videlicet, quod est homo, quatenus potest tanquam civis Deo aeterno regi suo, a quo conditus et redemtus est, subjici, uniri, aeternum beari, summumque finem suum adipisci.

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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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