System of Sacred Theology · §4.16.3 · Ludwig Crocius

Kinds and grades of faith

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Faith is distinguished as historical, dogmatic, temporary, miraculous, and justifying or saving faith.

Historical faith knows and assents to Gospel history without trust; temporary faith sprouts on rocky ground and withers under persecution; miraculous faith credits divine power for wonders. Justifying faith alone saves: knowledge, assent, and trust in Christ the mediator, apprehending the Gospel promise unto justification and eternal life.

Latin

Distinguenda est fides historica, dogmatica, temporalis, miraculosa, et fides iustificans seu salvifica. Fides historica est notitia et assensus historiae Evangelicae sine fiducia. Temporalis germinat in petrosis et aestu persecutionis arescit. Miraculosa credit potentiae divinae ad mira. Fides iustificans sola salvat: notitia, assensus, fiducia in Christum mediatorem, apprehendens promissionem Euangelii ad iustificationem et vitam aeternam.

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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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VD17 14:684303C. SLUB id335860389.

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