System of Sacred Theology · §3.10.5 · Ludwig Crocius

First genus of substantial composition: genus and difference — rejected

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The FIRST genus of substantial composition is that distinguished from genus and difference. Every true genus is univocal. But there is no common genus for God with the other things, nor a difference properly so called. God cannot be restricted to some predicament or genus, but is above all genera and outside them. To this first genus of composition we have also reduced composition from essence and existence.

Latin

PRIMUM substantialis compositionis genus, distinctum ex genere & differentia. Omne verum genus est univocum. Atqui nullum commune genus Deo cum rebus caeteris, neque differentia proprie dicta. Deus non potest restringi ad aliquod praedicamentum seu genus, sed supra omnia genera & extra ea est. Ad hoc primum genus compositionis reduximus quoque compositionem ex essentia & exsistentia.

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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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