System of Sacred Theology · §2.6.1 · Ludwig Crocius

Chapter 6: On the end of this world; heavens pass by free omnipotence, not natural cause

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CHAPTER SIX. On the end of this world.

From the state of the separated soul there follows the end of this world, by which the heavens (Enchiridion chapter 91) will pass away with a great noise not from a natural cause but from the free determination and omnipotence of their Creator; the elements burning with heat will be dissolved, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Latin

CAPUT SEXTUM, De hujus mundi fine. A statu animae separatae sequitur hujus mundi finis, quo caeli (Enchir. c. 91.) non a causa naturali, sed ex determinatione libera & omnipotentia creatoris sui cum stridore praeteribunt; elementa aestuantia solventur, terraque & quae in ea sunt opera exurentur.

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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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