Part 35 (1/2)

(2) Why such words used here 53.

3. Flood covered and destroyed the whole earth 54.

4. Why G.o.d sent the deluge 54.

* Why G.o.d so often repeats the same thing 55-60.

* What is meant by Zippor 55.

* How G.o.d's wrath as seen in the deluge was very great 56-57.

5. The deluge was a terrible spectacle; Noah and his sons took courage from it 58-60.

* Noah's glorious faith at the sight of the deluge 60.

* Noah's long s.h.i.+p voyage; how he was comforted 61.

6. How the world's destruction harmonizes with G.o.d's promises: how the promises to the Church agree with his threatenings 62ff.

* G.o.d's threatenings and man's unbelief.

a. Why the first world believed not the threatenings about the deluge 62ff.

b. Why the Jews believe not the threatenings of the prophets 63.

c. Why the Papists believed not the threats against them 64.

* G.o.d's Church and her maintenance.

a. The world understands not how the church is maintained 66.

b. What is the true form of the true Church 66.

c. G.o.d's promises not rescinded when rejected; who bear the name of the Church 67-68.

7. Whether G.o.d fully rescinded through the flood the rule over the earth he once gave man 69.

* How G.o.d preserved his Church through the deluge 69.

8. The deluge was apparently against G.o.d's promise 70.

* G.o.d allows nothing to hinder the punishment of the impenitent 71-73.

* By what means Papists adorn themselves and how it is all in vain 72.

* Why we should not rely on present, temporal things, but upon G.o.d's Word 73.

* The marks of a true Church.

a. What they are not and what they are 74-76.