System of Sacred Theology · §4.9.3 · Ludwig Crocius

IV. Abrogation

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IV. Abrogation does not remove the common equity founded in nature's light; yet insofar as the law looked to Christ, it is abrogated universally.

Simple observation is neither forbidden nor absolutely prescribed to any people, except what rests on common right and natural equity. What as to substance and chief end looks to Christ, no people may usurp. Refer Josephus, Philo, Maimonides, Sigonius, Bertram, and Cunaeus On the Jewish Commonwealth.

CHAPTER TEN follows, On the Gospel: where also on the Apostles' Creed.

Latin

IV. Abrogatio legis forensis non quidem tollit communem aequitatem in ipso naturae lumine fundatam; quatenus tamen Christum respexit, abrogata est haec lex universe. Quantum ad simplicem observationem, neque prohibita est neque praescripta ulli populo absoluta necessitate, si excipiantur quae communis iuris sunt & naturali aequitate nituntur. Quae vero quoad substantiam & finem praecipuum in Christum respiciunt, nulli populo licet usurpare. Huc refer Josephum, Philonem, Maimonidem, Sigonium, Bertramum, & Petrum Cunaeum de republica Judaeorum. CAPUT DECIMUM sequitur, De Euangelio: ubi de Symbolo Apostolorum.

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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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