System of Sacred Theology · §4.16.2 · Ludwig Crocius

Heb. 11 terms; object of hope; things unseen

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Hypostasis properly means substance or subsistence, sometimes boldness of soul. Elenchus is demonstration and conviction.

Hope's object is both what is hoped for (eternal life) and that in which one hopes (God, Christ). Present and past goods believed done and trusted to remain also belong here, with things unseen that faith must apprehend.

Latin

Hypostasis proprie substantiam vel subsistentiam significat, quandoque audaciam et praesentiam animi. Elenchus est demonstratio, argumentum, convictio. Objectum spei tum quod speratur (vita aeterna) tum id in quod speratur (Deus, Christus). Non solum futura bona, verum etiam praesentia et praeterita quae credimus facta et confidimus mansura pertinent. Addit Apostolus ea quae non videntur—multa eius conditionis ut fide apprehendantur.

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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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