Part 25 (1/2)

(3) Man has no free will and without the grace of the Holy Spirit can do nothing 142-143.

(4) The reproving office of the Holy Spirit makes it clear that man has no free will 144.

(5) Whether there is hope, if a council be held, that the Papists will abandon their false doctrine of free will 145.

(6) How the true doctrine of free will leads us to a knowledge of sin and what we are to hold in reference to it 146.

(7) Why we should guard against the false doctrine concerning free will 147.

* The comfort for one who commits sins of infirmities 147.

* All endeavors without the Holy Spirit are evil 148.

(8) We are to distinguish in the doctrine of free will what is good politically from what is good theologically 149-150.

b. These words are wrongly understood by the Jews and sophists 151.

* How we should view the discussions of philosophers in regard to G.o.d and divine things 152.

c. These words should be understood as spoken not only of the people before the flood, but of all men 153.

2. The Words, ”It Repented Jehovah.”

a. How the repentance of G.o.d is to be reconciled with the wisdom and omniscience of G.o.d.

(1) The way sophists answer this question 154.

(2) Luther's answer 155-157.

* How man should treat questions which lead us into the throne of the divine majesty 158.

* How the pa.s.sages of Scripture are to be understood which attribute to G.o.d the members of a human body 159.

* Whether the Anthropomorphites were justly condemned 159.

* Why G.o.d is represented to us as if he sprang from the temporal and the visible 161-163.

* We cannot explore G.o.d's nature 163.

* In what pictures G.o.d reveals himself in the Old Testament, and in the New 164.

* The will of G.o.d in signs and the will of G.o.d's good pleasure, ”signs” and ”Beneplaciti.”

(a) How we can know G.o.d's will in signs 165-166.

(b) Why we cannot know the will of G.o.d's pleasure, nor fathom it 165-166.

(c) What is really to be understood by the will in signs 167.

b. The way the schools explain these words 168.

c. How they are to be rightly understood 169.