System of Sacred Theology · §3.23.5 · Ludwig Crocius

Spirit is true God; proceeds from Father and Son

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VI. Secondly, that the Holy Spirit is true God the divine names, divine attributes, divine works, and divine worship show. XIV. Thirdly, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father — John 15:26. XV. And that the same proceeds from the Son — John 16:7; 20:22. For just as the Son is generated from eternity from the Father, so the Spirit is spirated from eternity from both.

XVI. But the difference between generation and procession consists in the mode of production. XVIII. Fourthly, the Holy Spirit is distinguished from Father and Son not only according to name but also according to hypostasis — Isaiah 48:16; 61:1; John 14:16,26; 15:26; 1 John 5:7.

Let the reader set a limit to curiosity, and not fetch upon himself troublesome and perplexed disputations more greedily than is fitting, as Calvin Institutes 1.13.19 piously and prudently warns, and Twisse: whenever it occurs that one must treat of the Trinity, I desire the matter to be dispatched in as few words as possible. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR, On creation in general, follows.

Latin

VI. Secundo, Spiritum sanctum esse verum Deum ostendunt nomina divina, attributa divina, opera divina, cultus divinus. XIV. Tertio, Spiritum sanctum procedere a Patre — Joh. XV.26. XV. Procedere vero eundem a Filio — Joh. XVI.7; XX.22. Sicut enim Filius ab aeterno ex Patre generatur, ita Spiritus ab aeterno ab utroque spiratur. XVI. Discrimen vero inter generationem et processionem in modo productionis consistit. XVIII. Quarto, Spiritus sanctus non solum secundum nomen, sed et hypostasin a Patre et Filio distinguitur — Isa. XLVIII.16; LXI.1; Joh. XIV.16,26; XV.26; I Joh. V.7. Modum curiositati imponat lector, nec molestas et perplexas disputationes cupidius quam par est sibi accersat, ut pie prudenterque monet Calvinus Inst. I.13.19, et Twissus: quoties de Trinitate disserendum occurrit, cupio rem expediri quam fieri potest paucissimis. CAPUT VICESIMUM QUARTUM, De creatione in genere, 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)

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