System of Sacred Theology · §3.16.1 · Ludwig Crocius

Chapter 16: On the will of God; definition

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN. On the will of God.

This is God's image: will is that life of His by which God is borne toward a known good. That will is rightly attributed to God, both the perfection of God's essence and intellect, and Scripture, and the consent of men abundantly confirm — Jonah 1:14; Daniel 4:17; Romans 9:18; James 1:18; Psalm 115:3; Matthew 20:15; Ephesians 1:11.

But when it is defined as rational appetite, the learned Molina rightly notes that it is not properly attributed to God in this sense, because reason does not properly belong to God.

Latin

CAPUT DECIMUMSEXTUM, De voluntate Dei. Haec Dei imago est: voluntas est illius vita, qua Deus in bonum cognitum fertur. Voluntatem Deo recte tribui tum essentiae et intellectus Dei perfectio, tum Scriptura, hominumque consensus abunde confirmant — Jonae I.14; Dan. IV.17; Rom. IX.18; Jac. I.18; Psal. CXV.3; Matth. XX.15; Ephes. I.11. Cum autem definitur orexis noera, appetitus rationalis, Deo proprie hoc sensu non tribui recte notat CL. P. Molinaeus, quia nec ratio proprie Deo competit.

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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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