System of Sacred Theology · §2.15.7 · Ludwig Crocius

Canon 9: meditation on hell; close of Book 2 — consensus of confessions

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(9) Perpetual meditation on hell ought to rouse us from the flesh's security and license to sin; in persecutions to comfort by confidence of eternal immunity. Let us descend into hell while living lest we descend while dying (Bernard). It serves repentance and consolation.

For the rest: as concerning Sacred Scripture in Book I, so concerning man's highest good and its opposite evil in Book II — among theologians against papist tyranny who embrace the Augsburg, Helvetic, French, English, and Belgian confessions, by God's benefit there is consensus. For which the God of peace is to be prayed that he further confirm it. Closing distich of Bernard of Morlaix: No one can speak or write or meditate the joys of the just nor the torments of the wicked.

Latin

9. Perpetua inferni meditatio a carnis securitate & peccandi licentia nos excitare debet; in persecutionibus solari fiducia aeternae immunitatis. Descendamus in infernum viventes ne descendamus morientes (Bernardus). Facit poenitudini & consolationi. Caetera: quemadmodum de sacra Scriptura libro primo, ita de summo hominis bono & opposito malo libro secundo — inter Theologos adversus papisticam tyrannidem, Augustanam, Helveticam, Gallicam, Anglicanam & Belgicam confessionem amplexos, Dei beneficio consensus est. Quem ut Deus pacis porro firmet orandus est. Clausula Bernhardi Morlanensis: Nemo potest fari nec scribere nec meditari gaudia justorum necnon tormenta malorum.

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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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