System of Sacred Theology · §3.12.3 · Ludwig Crocius

I. God fills all places of this world — five reasons

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We will demonstrate three things. I. That God fills all places and spaces of this world through the boundlessness of His beings being, or is present everywhere. FIRST reason: Whoever is at heavens, in the grave, at the extremity of the sea, in the lowest parts of the earth, fills all places and spaces of this world through the boundlessness of His beings being. But God is at once in all these places, as Psalm 139, Isaiah 66:1, Jeremiah 23:24, 1 Kings 8:27, Acts 7:49 and 17:27, and Ephesians 4:6 testify.

SECOND, from God's infinite perfection. THIRD, from inconvenience or absurdity: if God according to substance is nowhere but in heaven, it follows that Christ sojourning on earth was not true God. FOURTH, from God's immediate operation. FIFTH, from the catholic consent of pious antiquity — Cyprian, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Athanasius, Tertullian, Justin.

Latin

Tria demonstrabimus. I. Deum omnia loca et spatia hujus mundi immensitate essentiae suae implere, sive ubique praesentem esse. PRIMA ratio: Qui simul est in caelis, in sepulchro, in extremitate maris, in imis partibus terrae, is immensitate essentiae suae omnia loca et spatia hujus mundi implet. Atqui Deus simul est his omnibus in locis, Psal. CXXXIX; Sap. I.7; Isa. LXVI.1; Jer. XXIII.24; I Reg. VIII.27; Act. VII.49; XVII.27; Eph. IV.6. SECUNDA ab infinita perfectione Dei. TERTIA ab incommodo seu absurdo: si Deus secundum substantiam non est alibi quam in caelo, sequitur Christum in terris versantem non fuisse verum Deum. QUARTA ab immediata Dei operatione. QUINTA a catholico consensu piae antiquitatis — Cyprianus, Ambrosius, Hieronymus, Augustinus, Athanasius, Tertullianus, Justinus.

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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)

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