System of Sacred Theology · §1.2.13 · Ludwig Crocius

By spirit and by species; these two grades may be called intellectual

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XVI. By spirit: speaking within or without, it teaches the intellect. For examples see Acts 8:29 and Acts 16:7.

XVII. By species: it immediately transforms the mind once a perfect ecstasy has opened that mind and withdrawn it from the senses. Paul the Apostle supplies a famous instance (2 Corinthians 12:2). Compare our epilogism On the true religion and the Catholic Church, disputation 10 on prophetic light, and disputation 12 on divine prophecy. These two degrees can be comprehended under one, which we may without inconvenience call intellectual.

Latin

XVI. Per spiritum, qui intus aut foris loquendo intellectum docet. Exempla vide Act. 8. v. 29. & cap. 16. v. 7. XVII. Per speciem, qua mentem a sensibus perfecta ecstasi apertam immediate immutat. Illustre exemplum exhibet Paulus Apostolus 2. Cor. 12. v. 2. Confer epilogismum nostrum de vera religione & Catholica Ecclesia disp. 10. de lumine prophetico, pag. 207. & disputationem 12. de vaticinio divino, pag. 205. & seqq. Hi autem duo gradus sub uno comprehendi possunt, quem intellectualem non incommode dicemus.

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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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