System of Sacred Theology · §3.8.3 · Ludwig Crocius

Proper to God alone; created 'necessaries' only secundum quid

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But we assert that this absolute necessity of existing is so proper to God that it can be attributed to no creature. For created 'necessaries' only in a certain respect

Latin

Asserimus autem hanc absolutam exsistendi necessitatem ita propriam esse Deo, ut nulli creaturae attribui possit. Quamvis enim nonnulla entia creata dicantur necessaria, ut substantiae spirituales & corpora caelestia: ea tamen non simpliciter, sed secundum quid ita appellantur; quia naturaliter & vi causarum naturalium destrui nequeunt; id quod proprie loquendo est esse incorruptibile.

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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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VD17 14:684303C. SLUB id335860389.

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