System of Sacred Theology · §4.22.2 · Ludwig Crocius

From justification; sweetness of the heart at peace

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This is the peace the angels wished the shepherds at Christ's birth. Whoever is truly illumined by word and Spirit and believes Christ acquired salvation by passion and death and applied it in baptism can have a tranquil conscience.

The whole heart is seasoned with heavenly peace's sweetness; even sensing remaining sin in the flesh, he rejoices in the Lord, knowing the Savior took his sins and made satisfaction.

Latin

Haec est pax quam Angeli Christo nato pastoribus optarunt. Qui vere illuminatus verbo et Spiritu credit Christum passione et morte salutem acquisivisse et per baptismum applicuisse, tranquilla conscientia esse potest. Totum cor dulcedine caelestis pacis conditum est; etiamsi reliquum peccatum in carne sentiat, in Domino laetatur, novit Servatorem peccata in se recepisse et satisfecisse.

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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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