System of Sacred Theology · §3.2.9 · Ludwig Crocius

Reasons 13-16: miracles; societies; prophecy; best men's authority

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THE THIRTEENTH REASON is founded on miracles that exceed the whole force of the created universe. Therefore there is a cause that surpasses the universe. But that is God.

THE FOURTEENTH REASON is founded on the preservation of social, academic, political, and religious institutions, which could not be maintained except by one all-powerful. But that one is God.

THE FIFTEENTH REASON is founded on predictions of future things and their fulfillment (Isaiah 41:22-23).

THE SIXTEENTH REASON is founded on the authority of the best men: Moses, the Prophets, the Apostles, and the better philosophers proved it by miracles, holiness, martyrdom, and prophecy.

Latin

RATIO DECIMA TERTIA fundatur in miraculis quae totam creati universi vim excedunt. Ergo causa est quae universum exsuperet. At illa est Deus. RATIO DECIMA QUARTA fundatur in societatis oeconomicae, scholasticae, politicae, ecclesiasticae conservatione, quae nisi ab uno praepotente servari non posset. At ille est Deus. RATIO DECIMA QUINTA fundatur in praedictionibus rerum futurarum & earum impletione, Esa. 41.22-23. RATIO DECIMA SEXTA fundatur in optimorum hominum autoritate: Moses, Prophetae, Apostoli, melioresque philosophi miraculis, sanctitate, martyrio, prophetia probarunt.

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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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