System of Sacred Theology · §3.17.1 · Ludwig Crocius

Chapter 17: On God's executive power; definition

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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. On Gods executive power.

And these things also concerning the will of God: there follows the power of acting, which is Gods life by which, according to the liberty of His will, He can work outwardly — whatever He can freely will, He works, whatever He freely wills.

That power is rightly attributed to God, the sacred writings sufficiently declare — Genesis 17:1; 28:3; 35:11; Jeremiah 32:18-19; Psalm 91; Luke 1:37; Revelation 4:8; 11:17; 19:6.

Latin

CAPUT DECIMUMSEPTIMUM, De potentia Dei exsequente. Atque haec quoque de voluntate Dei: Sequitur agendi potentia, quae est vita Dei, qua pro libertate voluntatis suae extrinsecus operari potest, quaecunque libere velle potest, operatur, quaecunque libere vult. Potentiam Deo recte tribui, sacrae literae satis declarant, Gen. XVII.1; XXVIII.3; XXXV.11; Jerem. XXXII.18-19; Psal. XCI; Luc. I.37; Apoc. IV.8; XI.17; XIX.6.

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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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