System of Sacred Theology · §4.13.2 · Ludwig Crocius

Object; not iterated; John's baptism; ministers

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VII. The object of baptism is every human who can be enrolled in the covenant of grace. VIII. Baptism is not to be iterated often.

John's baptism does not differ from ours as to substance: same matter (Matt. 3:11), same form (John 1:33; Matt. 28:19). Baptism is to be administered only by a lawfully called minister of Christ. Only humans who can and ought to be saved are to be baptized.

Latin

VII. Objectum baptismi est omnis homo qui foederi gratiae adscribi potest. VIII. Baptismus non est saepius iterandus. Baptismus Johannis a baptismo nostro quoad substantiam non differt: eadem materia (Matth. 3:11), eadem forma (John 1:33; Matth. 28:19). 2. Baptismus tantum a ministro Christi legitime vocato administrandus est. 3. Soli homines baptizandi sunt quotquot salvari possunt & debent.

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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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