System of Sacred Theology · §3.35.5 · Ludwig Crocius

XII. Governance by fulfillment: permitting, impeding, effecting, tolerating

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XII. By way of fulfillment God governs human beings when He permits or impedes something spiritual or bodily, or effects it while benefiting or afflicting them, or tolerates it in them. You will see these modes of fulfillment in 2 Peter 2:4 and following. But in truth, by the fall of the first parents the salutary modes of teaching were weakened, and the modes of fulfillment impeded, as will appear from the following chapter 37.

Latin

XII. Per modum impletionis Deus gubernat homines, cum aliquid spirituale vel corporale permittit aut impedit, aut efficit eis benefaciens vel eos affligens, aut in eis tolerat. Hos modos implendi videbis 2 Petr. 2:4 et seqq. Verum enimvero lapsione primorum parentum salutares modi docendi sunt enervati, et modi implendi impediti, ut ex sequenti cap. 37 patebit.

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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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