Part 18 (1/2)

3. The most terrible examples of punishment G.o.d gives in the case of the proud and such examples should be diligently pondered 6-7.

* The complaint that the world is hardened by reason of G.o.d's judgments 7-8.

4. How the ancient world was misled into pride through its gifts 9-10.

5. Pride is the common weakness of human nature 11.

6. In what ways man is moved to pride 12-13.

a. The chief sin of the old world 14-15.

* Pride is the spring of all vices 15.

b. How the old world sinned against the first table of the law, and brought on the sins against the second table 16.

c. How and why G.o.d punished the old world 17.

* From the punishment of the first world we conclude that the last world will be also punished 18.

d. Whether the first world was wicked before Noah's birth; on what occasion its wickedness increased 19.

* Noah the martyr of martyrs 20.

* Why Lamech called his son Noah 21.

e. How sin greatly increased in the days of Noah 22.

* Why Noah remained unmarried so long, which was his greatest cross 23.

f. When the wickedness of the old world began 24.

* Concerning unchast.i.ty.

(1) It is the foundation of all want and misery 24.

(2) It is the spring of many other sins 25.

(3) How to remedy it 25.

(4) Whether bearing children is in itself to be reckoned as unchast.i.ty, and how far Moses denounces it 26.

(5) Unchast.i.ty makes the bearing of children difficult 27.

g. The reason the sons of G.o.d looked upon the daughters of men 28.

h. Why the sin of the first world was not so terrible as the sin of the second 29-30.

i. How the first world changed through the marriages of Adam and the other patriarchs 30-32.

* The sons of G.o.d.