System of Sacred Theology · §2.15.3 · Ludwig Crocius

III. Reason of eternal death: absence of the highest good and presence of evil

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III. The reason of eternal death is both the absence of the highest good and the presence of evil. Absence of good is separation from God, the principal evil of the damned — they are deprived of God's face and fruition entirely. From separation from God arises separation from the saints; denial of all compassion. Present external evils: a horrible place, society of the Devil. Internal: (1) God's wrath; (2) the bite of conscience (the gnawing worm); (3) ignominy, anguish, envy, fear, horror, and perpetual despair.

Latin

III. Ratio mortis aeternae est tum absentia summi boni, tum praesentia mali. Absentia boni est separatio a Deo, principale malum damnatorum — universali Dei facie & fruitione privantur. Ex separatione a Deo oritur separatio a sanctis; denegatio omnis commiserationis. Mala praesentia externa: locus horribilis, societas Diaboli. Interna: 1. ira Dei; 2. morsus conscientiae (vermis rodens); 3. ignominia, angustia, invidia, timor, horror & perpetua desperatio.

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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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