System of Sacred Theology · §4.19.3 · Ludwig Crocius

Indifferent things; abuse; magistrate and Mosaic forensics

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In indifferent things liberty does not extend to scandalizing the weak nor to fastening a worship of necessity on adiaphora. Those err most gravely who attach necessary worship to indifferent things, or pretend things are indifferent that are not.

Christians are not bound by Moses' forensic laws as particular right; what is moral in them remains. Carlstadt and Müntzer are rejected for binding the Christian magistrate to Moses' particular forensic laws.

Latin

In rebus indifferentibus libertas non extenditur ad scandalum infirmorum nec ad necessitatis cultum rebus adiaphoris affingendum. Gravissime peccant qui rebus indifferentibus necessitatis cultum affingunt, vel res adiaphoras esse fingunt quae minime sunt. Christiani non obligantur legibus forensibus Mosis quatenus ius singulare; quod morale in iis manet. Improbandi Carlostadius et Monetarius qui magistratum Christianum necessitati legum particularium forensium Mosis alligarunt (contra Lutherum, Melanchthonem, Calvinum).

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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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