System of Sacred Theology · §3.10.2 · Ludwig Crocius

Simplicity proper to God; not univocal with creaturely simplicity

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This property so belongs to God that to creatures we attribute only a thin shadow. Nor do we think a composition of reason — not real — fights against the divine simplicity. Therefore God's simplicity is not the same as that in creatures, but more eminent, removed from every substantial and accidental composition.

Latin

Haec proprietas ita Deo convenit, ut creaturis non nisi umbram tenuem tribuamus. Neque compositionem rationis simplicitati divinae, non realem, adversari putamus. Quapropter simplicitas Dei non est eadem quae in creaturis, sed eminentior, ab omni compositione substantiali & accidentali remota.

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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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