System of Sacred Theology · §2.13.4 · Ludwig Crocius

VII–IX. Matter: persons (angels and all humans) and all acts

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VII. The matter or object of the last judgment is partly persons, partly their acts.

VIII. The persons are the evil angels and all humans both good and evil. The evil angels, already subject to punishments, will receive the complement on the last day. All humans living and dead will be judged — the good by a judgment of discernment and absolution, the evil of condemnation.

IX. The acts are all thoughts, inclinations, gestures, words, and deeds of all humans, with their principles, circumstances, and accidents. Their revelation is signified by the opening of the books (Rev. 20:12).

Latin

VII. Materia sive objectum judicii extremi sunt partim personae, partim earum actus. VIII. Personae sunt angeli mali & homines omnes tam boni quam mali. Mali angeli jam poenis subjecti, in ultimo die complementum percipient. Homines judicabuntur omnes vivi & mortui — boni judicio discretionis & absolutionis, mali condemnationis. IX. Actus sunt omnes omnium hominum cogitationes, inclinationes, gestus, dicta, facta, cum principiis, circumstantiis & accidentibus. Horum revelatio significatur apertione librorum Apoc. 20.v.12.

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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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