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THE CONTENTS OF THE twelfth booke of the Citty of God.
- 1. Of the nature of good and euil Angells.
- 2. That no essence is contrary to God, though al the worlds frailty seeme to bee opposite vnto this immutable eternity.
- 3. Of gods enemies not by nature, but will, which hurting them, hurteth their good nature, because there is no vice but hurteth nature.
- 4. Of vselesse and reason-lesse natures, whose order differeth not from the Decorum held in the whole vniuerse.
- 5. That the Creator hath deserued praise, in euery forme and kind of Nature.
- 6. The cause of the good Angels blisse, and the euills misery.
- 7. That wee ought not to seeke out the cause of the vicious will.
- 8. Of the peruerse loue, wherby the soule goeth from the vnchangeable to the changeable good.
- 9. Whether he that made the Angels natures, made their wils good also, by the infusion of his loue into them, through his holy Spirit.
- 10. Of the falsenes of that History, that saith the world hath continued many thousand years.
- 11. Of those that hold not the Eternity of the world, but either a dissolution and generati∣on of innumerable worlds, or of this one at the expiration of certaine yeares.
- 12. Of such as held Mans Creation too late∣ly effected.
- 13. Of the reuolution of Tymes at whose ex∣piration some Phylosophers held that the Vni∣uerse should returne, to the state it was in at first
- 14. Of Mans temporall estate, made by God out of no newnesse, or change of will.
- 15. Whether (to preserue Gods eternall do∣mination) we must suppose that he hath alwaies had creatures to rule ouer, and how it may bee held alwaies created which is not coeternall with God.
- 16. How wee must vnderstand that God promised Man life eternall before all eternity.
- 17. The defence of Gods vnchanging will, against those that fetch Gods works about frō eternity, in circles from state to state.
- 18. Against such as say thinges infinite are aboue Gods knowledge.
- 19. Of the worlds without end, or Ages of Ages.
- 20. Of that impious assertion, that soules tru∣ly blessed, shall haue diuer s reuolutions into mi∣sery againe.
- 21. Of the state of the first Man and Man-kinde in him.
- 22. That God fore-knew that the first Man should sin, and how many people he was to trans∣late out of his kind into the Angels society.
- 23. Of the nature of Mans soule, being cre∣ated according to the Image of God.
- 24. Whether the Angels may bee called Creators, of any the least creature.
- 25. That no nature or forme of any thing li∣uing hath any other Creator but God.
- 26. The Platonists opinion, that held the Angels Gods creatures, & Man the Angels.
- 27. That the fulnesse of Man-kind was cre∣ated in the first Man, in whome God fore-saw, both who should bee saued, and who should bee damned.
FINIS.