Part 27 (2/2)

* To find grace before G.o.d leads to faith and excludes works 194.

2. For what was righteous Noah especially praised by G.o.d 195.

* Many great men lived in the days of Noah 196.

3. How righteous Noah had to contend against so much all alone 197.

* By what means the Papists contend against the Evangelicals 198.

4. With what the world especially upbraided righteous Noah 199.

* People then were wiser and more ingenious than now 200.

5. Noah may be called both just and pious 201.

6. Righteous Noah led a G.o.dly life, possessed great courage and was a marvelous character 202.

7. By his piety Noah was a confessor of the truth 203-204.

* It is very difficult for one man to withstand the united opposition of many 204.

8. Being a preacher of righteousness Noah was in greater danger 205.

9. Noah an example of patience and of all virtues 206.

10. How he traveled and preached everywhere in the world, and preserved the human race temporally and spiritually 207-208.

11. The world takes offense at righteous Noah's marrying, and adds sin to sin 209.

12. The order of the birth of Noah's sons 210.

B. THE WHOLE WORLD DESTROYED.

1. Whether, as Lyra teaches, birds and animals were destroyed 211.

* Why the punishment of sin was visited also upon the animals 212-213.

2. The meaning of ”the earth was corrupt before G.o.d” 214-216.

* The sins against the first table of the law can easier be concealed than those against the second table 214.

* Where false doctrine is taught, G.o.dless living follows 215.

3. How the earth was corrupt in the light of the first table of the law 215-216.

4. How the earth was corrupt in the light of the second table 217-218.

* The meaning of ”violence” in Scripture 218.

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