System of Sacred Theology · §3.16.5 · Ludwig Crocius

XXII-XXV: approving, efficient, and permitting will

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XXII. FIFTH, God's will is approving, or efficient, or permitting. Others distinguish in the same sense into the will of approbation and of decree. XXIII. Approving is that by which God loves something as a possible good not dissonant from His nature, which yet He does not effect. XXIV. Efficient is that by which God wills to produce something, and to work something in or through something. XXV. Permitting is that by which He wills something to happen which, though He hates it, He does not impede because of a joined good — so God willed to permit the fall of the first parents, Romans 9:17; Acts 4:28.

Latin

XXII. QUINTO, voluntas Dei est approbans, aut efficiens, aut permittens. Alii distinguunt eodem sensu in voluntatem approbationis et decreti. XXIII. Approbans est qua Deus aliquid amat tanquam bonum possibile a natura sua haud dissentaneum, quod tamen non efficiat. XXIV. Efficiens est qua Deus vult aliquid producere, et aliquid in aliquo aut per aliquid operari. XXV. Permittens est qua aliquid fieri vult, quamvis oderit, propter bonum conjunctum, non impedire — sic Deus lapsum primorum parentum permittere voluit, Rom. IX.17; Act. IV.28.

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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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