System of Sacred Theology · §2.2.9 · Ludwig Crocius

IX-X. Mexicans profess the same faith; Guianans agree with Peruvians (Raleigh); burial with wives and treasures

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IX. THE MEXICANS profess the same faith. For Acosta in chapter 8 reports nearly the same things, and that at the funerals of great men those who had been ready in serving the living were compelled by them to die, so that they might render the same services in the other age as well.

X. THE GUIANANS, Epicurean natives of the gold-bearing province, agree with the Peruvians in religion and opinions. For, as Walter Raleigh witnesses in his Description of Guiana, they believe the immortality of souls, adore the sun, and take care that the dearest wives they have had, as also their treasures, be buried with them: but the Orenoqueponi are not indeed buried with their wives, yet with all their treasures; they hope and believe that after these times they will again possess them.

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IX. MEXICANI, eandem fidem profitentur. Nam Acosta cap. 8. eadem ferme refert, & ab iis in exequiis magnatum mori coactos, qui viventibus in serviendo praesto fuissent, ut easdem in altero quoque saeculo operas praestarent. X. GUIANENSES, Epicuremei auriferae provinciae indigenae, cum Peruanis religione & opinionibus conveniunt. Nam, teste Gualthero Ralegho in descriptione Guianae, credunt immortalitatem animarum, adorant solem, & uxores quas habuerunt carissimas, ut thesauros quoque suos, sepeliendos secum curant: Orenoqueponi vero non sepeliuntur quidem cum uxoribus, sed cum omnibus thesauris, sperant & credunt, se posthaec tempora illis rursus potituros.

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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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