System of Sacred Theology · §3.3.5 · Ludwig Crocius

ASSERTION 3: God known in this life by grace-strengthened intuition

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THIRD ASSERTION. God can be known in this life not through an image by which His essence would be represented, but by intuition and the swiftest discourse of a mind strengthened by the light of grace.

For this reason Paul says: we speak God's wisdom, which none of the rulers of this age knew, but God has revealed it to us (1 Corinthians 2:7-10). For God can reveal things thoroughly unknown through sensible words, and form notions in our spirit.

Latin

ASSERTIO TERTIA. Deus, non per simulacrum quo essentia ipsius repraesentetur, sed intuitu celerimoque discursu mentis lumine gratiae corroboratae in hac vita cognosci potest. Hacpropter Paulus: Loquimur sapientiam Dei, quam nemo principum seculi cognovit, nobis autem revelavit Deus, 1 Cor. 2.7-10. Deus enim penitus ignota potest revelare per voces sensibiles, & notiones in nostro spiritu formare.

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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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