System of Sacred Theology · §3.25.2 · Ludwig Crocius

Worlds unity, finitude, beginning; against eternity of the world

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The world is one, not many; finite, not infinite; it has a beginning of time, it is not eternal. Those who invent an eternal world with Aristotle oppose Scripture — Genesis 1:1; Psalm 90:2; John 17:5.

The world was created in time, or with time, not in a pre-existing time. For time is the measure of the motion of creatures.

Latin

Mundus est unus, non plures; finitus, non infinitus; habet principium temporis, non est aeternus. Qui mundum aeternum fingunt cum Aristotele, Scripturae adversantur — Gen. I.1; Psal. XC.2; Joh. XVII.5. Mundus creatus est in tempore, seu cum tempore, non in tempore praeexsistente. Tempus enim mensura est motus creaturarum.

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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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