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From infinity and freedom from every composition
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Sixth, and this is the most evident of all, from God's infinite perfection. SEVENTH, that God is free from every composition whatsoever. For whatever is composite is more imperfect than that which is simple; and an infinite being does not suffer composition.
Latin SEXTO, id est omnium evidentissimum ab infinita Dei perfectione. SEPTIMO, Deum ab omni prorsus compositione esse liberum. Quicquid enim compositum est, imperfectius est eo quod simplex est; & ens infinitum compositionem non patitur.
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About this text Crocius wrote in the early seventeenth century as Reformed professor at the illustrious school of Bremen. This is not a patristic work.
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.
Date 1636 AD (Bremen; Reformed professor)
Edition Syntagma 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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VD17 14:684303C. SLUB id335860389.
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