System of Sacred Theology · §3.16.7 · Ludwig Crocius

XXXIX-XLIV: ordinary and extraordinary; per se and for another

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XXXIX. God's will is either ordinary or extraordinary. XL. Ordinary is that by which God constantly keeps the order once established by Himself in the works of nature and the gifts of grace. XLI. Extraordinary is that by which God acts beside and above this order according to His wisdom and choice — hence miracles.

XLII. EIGHTH, God's will is through itself or for another and by accident. XLIII. God's will through itself is that by which God wills things simply good. XLIV. God's will for another is that by which He wills things which in a certain respect are evil, yet ordainable unto good — it is lawful for God to will that sin should have happened with Him permitting, because of a joined good.

From these things rightly established concerning God's will it can be obscure to none that nothing is better than God, nothing kinder, nothing holier, nothing more just — the foundation of all our religion and consolation. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN, On God's executive power, follows.

Latin

XXXIX. SEPTIMO, voluntas Dei est ordinaria aut extraordinaria. XL. Ordinaria est qua Deus ordinem semel a se constitutum in operibus naturae et donis gratiae constanter servat. XLI. Extraordinaria est qua Deus praeter et supra hunc ordinem pro sua sapientia et arbitrio agit — hinc miracula. XLII. OCTAVO, voluntas Dei est per se aut propter aliud et per accidens. XLIII. Voluntas Dei per se est qua Deus vult quae simpliciter bona sunt. XLIV. Voluntas Dei propter aliud est qua vult quae respectu quodam mala sunt, at ordinabilia in bonum — licet Deo velle ut evenerit peccatum ipso permittente propter bonum conjunctum. Ex his de Dei voluntate probe constitutis nemini obscurum esse potest, Deo nihil esse melius, nihil benignius, nihil sanctius, nihil justius — fundamentum totius religionis et consolationis nostrae. CAPUT DECIMUMSEPTIMUM, De potentia Dei exsequente, sequitur.

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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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