System of Sacred Theology · §3.4.1 · Ludwig Crocius

Chapter 4: On the unity of God; ASSERTION: God is one

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CHAPTER FOUR. On the unity of God, where it is shown that God is one.

Thus far we have proved that God is, and by what way and power we may know Him: now we will demonstrate that the same is one, against the fictitious number of gods.

There is therefore another axiom of our faith, the ASSERTION: GOD IS ONE. Tertullian (Against Marcion): Christian truth directly pronounces, God, if He is not one, is not. But He is one in the sense the Apostle declares (1 Corinthians 8:4). And Isaiah 44:6; John 17:3 — the only true God.

Latin

CAPUT QUARTUM, De unitate Dei, ubi ostenditur unum esse Deum. Hactenus probavimus esse Deum, & qua via ac virtute eum cognoscamus: nunc eundem unum esse, adversus fictitium deorum numerum demonstrabimus. Est igitur alterum axioma fidei nostrae ASSERTIO: DEUS EST UNUS. Tertullianus adversus Marcionem: Veritas Christiana directe pronunciat, Deus, si non unus est, non est. Unus autem est eo sensu quem Apostolus declarat 1 Cor. 8.4. Et Esa. 44.6; Joh. 17.3 solum verum Deum.

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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)

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