System of Sacred Theology · §1.11.2 · Ludwig Crocius

II. Various tractations; Conrad Bergius's five modes — history and prophecy

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II. Among outstanding theologians there are various treatments and divisions of it.

Doctor Conrad Bergius, in his praised Precognita, refers the tractations of sacred things to five modes.

The first is HISTORY, which is discourse about singular past deeds; in it the order of time is chiefly to be observed.

The second is PROPHECY, which is discourse about singular future deeds; in it partly the order of time is observed, partly the prudence or fitness to the particular end that God or the prophet intends.

Latin

II. Sunt autem apud praestantes Theologos variae illius tractationes & divisiones. TRACTATIONES de rebus sacris D. Conr. Bergius in laudatis praecognitis suis ad quinque modos refert. PRIMUS est HISTORIA, quae est sermo de factis singularibus praeteritis: in quo temporis potissimum ordo observandus est. SECUNDUS est PROPHETIA, quae est sermo de factis singularibus futuris: in quo partim temporis ordo observatur, partim prudentiae seu congruentiae ad finem particularem, quem Deus vel propheta intendit.

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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)

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