System of Sacred Theology · §3.16.4 · Ludwig Crocius

XVI-XXI: absolute and conditioned; antecedent and consequent

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XVI. THIRD, God's will is absolute or conditioned. XVII. Absolute is that by which God wills something without condition. XVIII. Conditioned is that by which God wills something under a condition. XIX. FOURTH, God's will is antecedent or consequent.

Antecedent will is that by which God wills something before particular circumstances are considered; consequent that by which, circumstances being posited, He wills. This can be called judicial will — as a magistrate by antecedent will desires all citizens to live, by consequent will some to die for crimes; so God by antecedent will wants all men to be saved (1 Timothy 2:4), by consequent will confers righteousness on believers and inflicts eternal death on the impenitent.

Latin

XVI. TERTIO, voluntas Dei est absoluta aut conditionata. XVII. Absoluta est qua Deus aliquid vult sine conditione. XVIII. Conditionata est qua Deus aliquid vult sub conditione. XIX. QUARTO, voluntas Dei est antecedens aut consequens. Voluntas antecedens est qua Deus vult aliquid priusquam considerentur circumstantiae particulares; consequens qua, positis circumstantiis, vult. Haec dici potest voluntas judiciaria — sicut magistratus voluntate antecedente vult omnes cives vivos esse, consequente aliquos mori propter scelera; sic Deus voluntate antecedente vult omnes homines salvos fieri, I Tim. II.4, voluntate consequente credentibus justitiam confert, impoenitentibus mortem aeternam infligit.

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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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