System of Sacred Theology · §3.13.1 · Ludwig Crocius

Chapter 13: On the eternity of God; definition

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CHAPTER THIRTEEN. On the eternity of God.

There follows GOD's sixth attribute, namely eternity, which is His highest perfection, by which He is free from finite duration. The word eternity properly notes a standing duration without beginning, middle, end, without flux of past, present, future.

Among the ancients Boethius defines thus: Eternity is the whole, simultaneous, and perfect possession of interminable life — or it is interminable, indivisible, and independent duration.

Latin

CAPUT DECIMUMTERTIUM, De aeternitate Dei. Sequitur sextum DEI attributum, aeternitas videlicet, quae est summa illius perfectio, qua expers est finitae durationis. Aeternitatis vox notat proprie durationem stativam sine principio, medio, fine, sine fluxu praeteriti, praesentis, futuri. Ex antiquis Boethius ita definit: Aeternitas est interminabilis vitae tota simul et perfecta possessio, vel est duratio interminabilis, indivisibilis et independens.

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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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