System of Sacred Theology · §3.40.2 · Ludwig Crocius

II–III. Penal condition: eternal curse or paternal chastisement; curse remains on unbelievers

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II. The penal condition therefore is of eternal curse or of paternal chastisement. III. Eternal curse is that which, the guilt of the human race having been transferred onto Christ, remains for those who do not receive Him. The matter is clear in Mark 16:16: But whoever does not believe will be condemned. John 3:36: But whoever does not assent to the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him. Revelation 21:8: But for the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars (that is, those not receiving Christ, the truth) their portion is in the lake where fire and sulphur burn, which is the second death. A type of this was the ejection from paradise, insofar as paradise was a figure of the heavenly dwelling. Of eternal curse and death we treated above in Book II chapter 15; it remains only for those who do not receive the testimony of Christ.

Latin

II. Poenalis conditio igitur est maledictionis aeternae aut castigationis paternae. III. Maledictio aeterna est, quae propter culpam humani generis in Christum translata, eos manet qui hunc non recipiunt. Res clara est Marc. 16:16: Qui vero non crediderit, condemnabitur. Ioh. 3:36: Qui vero non assentitur Filio, non videbit vitam, sed ira Dei manet super eum. Apoc. 21:8: Formidolosis autem et incredulis et exsecrabilibus et homicidis et scortatoribus et veneficis et idololatris et omnibus mendacibus (id est, Christum, veritatem non recipientibus) portio est in stagno ubi ardet ignis et sulphur, quod est mors secunda. Huius typus fuit eiectio e paradiso, quatenus paradisus fuit caelestis domicilii figura. De maledictione vero et morte aeterna supra egimus lib. 2 cap. XV, quae eos duntaxat manet qui testimonium Christi non recipiunt.

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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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