System of Sacred Theology · §3.2.7 · Ludwig Crocius

Reasons 5-8: universe; nature's voice; order; contraries

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THE FIFTH REASON is founded on the axiom from the universe's existence. The world was not always, because it consists of parts. Therefore it was produced from nothing. But this is God.

THE SIXTH REASON is founded on nature's public voice. Magnitude, multitude, variety, beauty, and perfection cry out that all are from some one. But this is God.

THE SEVENTH REASON is founded on the order of things and their disposition to an end, even of those that lack reason. Every order is from one. But this is God.

THE EIGHTH REASON is founded on the temper and enmity of contraries; a moderator is needed. But this is God.

Latin

RATIO QUINTA fundatur in axiomate ab exsistentia universi. Mundus non fuit semper, quia e partibus constat. Ergo e nihilo productus est. At hic est Deus. RATIO SEXTA fundatur in publica naturae voce. Magnitudo, multitudo, varietas, pulchritudo, perfectio clamant ab aliquo uno esse omnia. At hic est Deus. RATIO SEPTIMA fundatur in rerum ordine & dispositione ad finem, etiam earum quae rationis expertes sunt. Omnis ordo ab uno est. At hic Deus est. RATIO OCTAVA fundatur in contrariorum indole & inimicitia; opus est moderatore. At hic Deus est.

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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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