System of Sacred Theology · §3.12.6 · Ludwig Crocius

Rules 1-11 on immensity

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RULES. 1. God's immensity is regarded absolutely or relatively — absolutely from eternity; relatively partly as omnipresence, partly as incomprehensibility. 2. The mode of divine immensity is to be conceived without any multiplication, extension, or division of parts. 3. God is in every place not as located, but as cause and lord of each place. 4. God is everywhere not by extension of His essence, but by comprehension. 5. God is outside the world not by physical size, but by infinity of essence.

6. God is so in the heavens and saints by His majesty, grace, and glory that He is nonetheless everywhere by essence and power. 7. When God is in the saints by grace, presence sometimes is hidden, sometimes open. 8. God's presence is general, special, and most special. 9. To be everywhere is not unseemly for God. 10. Scripture places that attribute greatness, throne, house to God are to be understood as far as they suit the immensity of His essence. 11. We ought to imitate God's immensity by immense desire of eternity.

Latin

REGULAE. 1. Immensitas Dei spectatur absolute aut relate — absolute ab aeterno; relate partim omnipraesentia, partim incomprehensibilitas. 2. Modus immensitatis divinae concipiendus est absque ulla multiplicatione, extensione, aut partium divisione. 3. Deus est in omni loco, non ut locatum, sed ut causa et dominus cujusque loci. 4. Deus est ubique non per extensionem essentiae suae, sed per comprehensionem. 5. Deus est extra mundum non mole, sed infinitate essentiae. 6. Deus ita est in caelis et sanctis majestate, gratia et gloria sua, ut tamen sit ubique essentia et potentia sua. 7. Cum Deus in sanctis inest per gratiam, praesentia quandoque latet, quandoque patet. 8. Praesentia Dei est generalis, specialis et specialissima. 9. Ubique esse Deo non est indecorum. 10. Loca Scripturae quae Deo tribuunt magnitudinem, thronum, domum, intelligenda sunt quatenus immensitati essentiae ipsius convenienter. 11. Immensitatem Dei imitari debemus immenso desiderio aeternitatis.

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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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