System of Sacred Theology · §1.6.1 · Ludwig Crocius

Chapter 6: On Sacred Scripture's clarity

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CHAPTER SIX On Sacred Scripture's clarity

So far concerning Sacred Scripture's perfection and sufficiency: next comes clarity. Clarity is Scripture's property by which everything that holds the faith and the manners of living is so openly set down in it, and so found there, that God-fearers — using proper means with careful effort and wisdom, guided by God, and giving no credit to themselves or their own reasoningn's age, know it surely and understand it unto salvation.

Latin

CAPUT SEXTUM. De sacrae Scripturae claritate. Haec de sacrae Scripturae perfectione & sufficientia: sequitur claritas, quae est illius proprietas, qua in ea ita aperte posita sunt et inveniuntur illa omnia, quae continent fidem moresque vivendi, ut adhibitis cum debita diligentia & prudentia mediis convenientibus per DEI auxilium a DEI timentibus nihilque sibi, suoque carnali judicio tribuentibus pro cujusque aetate certo sciri & ad salutem intelligi possint.

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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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