System of Sacred Theology · §3.4.4 · Ludwig Crocius

Reasons 4-6: infinity; consensus of the wise; pagan deities as names of one

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THE FOURTH: either God is one, or if there are many there must be infinitely many; but there cannot be infinitely many.

THE FIFTH is from the unanimous consensus of all the wise.

THE SIXTH: most names of the Gentiles' gods designate one God under diverse attributes. Jupiter and Pluto, Phoebus, Dionysus are one. God stands as one in all. The philosopher On the World to Alexander: though God is one, He is called by many names.

Latin

QUARTA: aut unus est Deus, aut si plures sint infinitos esse oportet; infiniti autem esse nequeunt. QUINTA est a sapientum omnium unanimi consensu. SEXTA: plurima gentilitiorum deorum nomina unum Deum designant diversis attributis. Jupiter & Pluto, Phoebus, Dionysus unum est. Deus assistat in omnibus unus. Philosophus de mundo ad Alexandrum: Unus Deus cum sit, pluribus nominibus est appellatus.

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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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