System of Sacred Theology · §4.14.5 · Ludwig Crocius

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13. True Christians do not use the sacred Supper by custom alone, but eagerly and religiously from ardent desire for Christ, that they may satisfy His precept, enjoy His love and treasure, and frequently also for their own need, to strengthen weak faith. In the primitive church the faithful communicated daily; later, as faith's ardor cooled, that custom faded.

As for little ones: since this mystery requires self-examination and announcing the Lord's death (1 Cor. 11), the institution does not of itself pertain to infants who cannot perform these.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN follows, On the ministry of the word.

Latin

13. Veri Christiani non pro more & propter consuetudinem usurpant sacram coenam, sed ex ardenti Christi desiderio alacriter ac religiose, ut praecepto ipsius satisfaciant, dilectione & thesauro fruantur, tum ob suam etiam necessitatem frequenter, ut infirmam fidem roborent. In primitiva ecclesia fideles quotidie communicabant (Acts; Cyprian; Augustine); postmodum deminuto fidei ardore mos ille obsolvit. De parvulis: cum ad hoc mysterium requiratur sui probatio & mortis Domini annunciatio (1 Cor. 11), institutio huius sacramenti non per se pertinet ad parvulos qui haec praestare nequeunt. CAPUT DECIMUM QUINTUM sequitur, De ministerio verbi.

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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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