System of Sacred Theology · §3.26.2 · Ludwig Crocius

III: heaven produced in the beginning of time; angels

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III. The heavens were produced in the beginning of time, and with them the Angels, intelligent spirits, created by God immediately.

Angels are spiritual substances, complete, incorporeal, understanding, willing, powerful. They are not eternal but created; they are not everywhere by essence as God is, but where God has willed them to be.

Orders and hierarchies are distinguished, concerning which one must judge soberly from Scripture, not from Pseudo-Dionysius.

Latin

III. Caeli in principio temporis producti sunt, et cum eis Angeli, spiritus intelligentes, a Deo immediate creati. Angeli sunt substantiae spirituales, completae, incorporeae, intelligentes, volentes, potentes. Non sunt aeterni, sed creati; non sunt ubique per essentiam ut Deus, sed ubi Deus eos esse voluerit. Distinguuntur ordines et hierarchiae, de quibus sobrie ex Scriptura, non ex Pseudodionysio, judicandum.

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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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VD17 14:684303C. SLUB id335860389.

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