Part 20 (1/2)

* What is necessary to interpret Scripture 50.

h. The true sense of these words 51.

* Scripture definition of ”to judge” 51.

2. The author of this judgment and lamentation 51-53.

* Man's conduct upon hearing G.o.d's Word preached 54.

3. From what kind of a heart does such judgment and lamentation spring 55.

* What kind of grief is the grief of the Holy Spirit 56.

* G.o.d's severest punishment 57-59.

* What follows when man does not possess G.o.d's Word 57-58.

* Why the heathen are so carnal 58.

4. The nature of this judgment and lamentation 59.

* The lamentation and judgment of Luther over Germany because it lightly esteemed G.o.d's Word 60.

* The spirit of grace and of prayer 61.

* The office of the ministry.

a. It requires two things 62.

b. It is the greatest blessing of G.o.d 63.

c. To despise it is a great sin, and what follows when it is taken from a people 63.

d. A complaint of its neglect 64.

e. This office is explained by the expression ”to judge” 65.

* Every G.o.dly preacher is one who disputes and judges 65.

* Luther's grief because of the stubbornness of the world 66.

* Why Ahab called Elijah a troubler of Israel 67.

* Why the world resents being reproved by sound doctrine. It is a good sign if a minister is reviled by the world 68.

* The glory of people who boast of being the Church.

a. Such glory avails nothing before G.o.d 68-70.

b. Papists wish by all means to have this glory 68-70.