System of Sacred Theology · §4.21.4 · Ludwig Crocius

Theorems 6–10

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6–7. Faith, mother of true invocation, begets trust of certain hearing, humility, and custody of conscience.

8. Even when God does not always grant what is desired but denies or delays, by praying we are led to union with God. 9–10. Some goods may piously be prayed against; evils likewise deprecated.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. On peace of conscience.

Latin

6. Bona spiritualia petenda a Deo sine conditione quatenus ad gloriam et salutem. 7. Fides mater verae invocationis parit fiduciam certae exauditionis, humilitatem, custodiam conscientiae. 8. Etiamsi Deus non semper largiatur desiderata sed neget aut differat, orando ducimur ad Dei unionem. 9. Bona quaedam pie deprecari licet. 10. Mali deprecatio. CAPUT VIGESIMUM SECUNDUM sequitur, De pace conscientiae.

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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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