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THE CONTENTS OF THE foureteenth booke of the City of God.
- 1. That the inobedience of the first man had drawne all mankind into the perpetuity of the se∣cond death, but that Gods grace hath freed a∣many from it.
- 2. Of the carnall life apparant in the soules viciousnesse, as well as the bodies.
- 3. That sinne came from the soule, and not the flesh, and that the corruption which sinne hath procured is not sinne but the punishment of sinne.
- 4. What it is to liue according to man, and to liue according to God.
- 5. That the Platonists teach the natures of soule and bodie, better then the Maniches, yet they erre in ascribing sinne, vnto the nature of the flesh.
- 6. Of the quality of mans will, vnto which all affections, Good and Bad, are subiect.
- 7. That Amor and Dilectio are of indifferent vse in the Scriptures both for Good and Euill.
- 8. Of the three passions that the Stoykes al∣low a wiseman, excluding sadnes as foe to a ver∣tuous mind.
- 9. Of the perturbations of mind, which the iust doe moderate, and rule aright.
- 10. Whether Man had those perturbations in Paradise, before his fall.
- 11. The fall of the first Man, wherein Na∣ture was made good, and cannot bee repair'd but by the Maker.
- 12. Of the quality of Mans first offence.
- 13. That in Adams offence, his Euill will was before his euill woorke.
- 14. Of the pride of the transgressiō, which was worse then the transgression it selfe.
- 15. Of the iust reward that our first parents receiued for sinne.
- 16. Of the euill of lust, how the name is ge•…•…∣rall to many vices, but proper vnto venereall concupiscence.
- 17. Of the nakednesse that our first parents discouered in themselues after their sinne.
- 18. Of the shame that accompanieth copula∣tion, as well in common, as in mariage.
- 19. That the motions of wrath and lust are so violent, that they doe necessarily require to bee suppressed by wisdome, and that they were not 〈◊〉〈◊〉 our Nature, before our fall depraued it.
- 20. Of the vaine obscaenity of the Cynikes.
- 21. Of the blessing of multiplication before sinne, which the transgression did not abolish, but onely linked to lust.
- 22. That God first instituted and blessed the band of marriage.
- 23. Whether if man had not sinned, hee should haue begotten children in paradice, and whether there should there haue bin any contention, be∣tweene chastity and lust.
- 24. That our first parents had they liued without sinne, should haue had their members of generation as subiect vnto their wills as any of the rest.
- 25. Of the true beatitude, vnattayne abl•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 this life.
- 26. That our first parents in Paradise mig•…•… haue produced manking without any sham•…•… appetite.
- 27. That the sinners, Angels, and men, ca•…•…∣not with their peruersenesse disturbe Gods pro∣uidence.
- 28. The state of the two Citties the Heauenly and the Earthly.
FINIS.