System of Sacred Theology · §2.6.7 · Ludwig Crocius

Juniors who hold substance-perishing; Chassanis; we prefer renovation yet dare not harshly reject

Certain of the juniors dissent from all these, namely Johannes Chassanis, a French theologian (Common Places book 3, chapter 22). Revelation 20:11 and 21:1 seem to favor his sentence, where it is expressly said that the sea will be no more; also Psalm 102:26; Luke 21:33; Job 14:12; Psalm 72:7. For this reason we dare not reject harshly the sentence of those who judge that the world will perish according to substance — especially since nothing about it was defined of old by any synod, and certain truly outstanding men dissent about it. Meanwhile we more approve the former sentence.

Latin

Dissentiumt ab omnibus istis quidam juniorum, nominatim Johannes Chassanis, Theologus Gallus, Loc. Com. lib. 3. cap. 22. Cui sententiae favere videtur Apoc. 20.14. & 21.1. ubi disertim dicitur, mare non fore amplius; Psal. 102.27.28. Luc. 21.33. Jobi 14.12. Psal. 72.7. Hacpropter neque horum sententiam praefracte rejicere audemus, qui mundum secundum substantiam periturum esse arbitrantur: praesertim cum nihil de eo antiquitus synodo ulla sit definitum & quidam praestantes sane viri de eo dissentiant. Interim priorem sententiam magis probamus.

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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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