System of Sacred Theology · §4.8.3 · Ludwig Crocius

III–IV. Use of the ceremonial law

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III. The use and abrogation of the ceremonial law are to be observed. IV. Its use was: 1. to hold the ancient people under hope of the promised goods; 2. to distinguish Israel from the nations by a middle wall until Christ tore it down and they coalesced into one body; 3. that occupied with this laborious worship they might neither invent other cults nor take up those invented by others.

The first use it performs through types, figures, and shadows. In this respect that law is rightly called a pedagogue to Christ (Heb. 10:1-3; Col. 2:14, 17; Gal. 3:24; Eph. 2:14-15).

Latin

III. Est autem observandus legis ceremonialis usus & abrogatio. IV. Usus illius fuit 1. ut populum veterem sub spe & expectatione promissorum bonorum contineret; 2. ut populum Israeliticum a reliquis gentibus discerneret tanquam paries intergerinus, donec diruta maceria per adventum Christi cum iis in unum corpus coalescerent; 3. ut isto operoso cultu occupati neque cultus alios ipsi confingerent neque ab aliis confictos usurparent. Primum usum praestat per typos, figuras, umbras. Hoc respectu lex illa iure merito paedagogus ad Christum appellatur. Vide Heb. 10:1-3; Col. 2:14, 17; Gal. 3:24; Eph. 2:14-15.

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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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