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THE CONTENTS OF THE fifteenth booke of the City of God.
- 1. Of the two contrary courses taken by mans progeny from the beginning.
- 2. Of the Sonnes of the flesh and the sonnes of promise.
- 3. Of Saras barrennesse, which God turned into fruitfullnesse.
- 4. Of the cōflicts & peace of the earthly city.
- 5. Of that murtherer of his brother, that was the first founder of the earthly Citty, whose act the builder of Rome paralell'd in murdering his brother also.
- 6. Of the languors that Gods cittizens en∣dure on earth as the punishments of sinne du∣ring their pilgrimage, and of the grace of God curing them.
- 7. Of the cause & obstinacy of Caines wick∣ednesse which was not repressed by Gods owne words.
- 8. The reason why Cayne was the first of man-kinde that ouer built a Citty.
- 9. Of the length of life and bignesse of body that •…•…en had before the deluge.
- 10. Of the difference that seemes to bee be∣tweene the Hebrews computation •…•…nd ours.
- 11. Of Mathusalems yeares, who seemeth to haue liued 14. yeares after the Deluge.
- 12. Of such as beleeue not that men of olde Time liued so long as is recorded.
- 13. Whether wee ought to follow the Hebrew computation, or the Septuagints.
- 14. Of the parity of yeares, measured by the same spaces, of old, and of late.
- 15. Whether the men of old abstained from women, vntill that time that the scriptures say they begot children.
- 16. Of the lawes of marriage, which the first women might haue different from the succee∣ding.
- 17. Of the two heads and Princes of the two Citties, borne both of one Father.
- 18. That the significations of Abel, Seth, and Enos, are all pertinent vnto Christ, and his body the Church.
- 19. What the translation of Enoch signified.
- 20. Concerning Caines succession, being but eight from Adam, whereas Noah is the tenth.
- 21. Why the generation of Caine is conti∣newed downe along, from the naming of his son Enoch, whereas the scripture hauing named E∣nos, Seths sonne goeth back againe, to beginne Seths generation at Adam.
- 22. Of the fall of the sonnes of God by louing strange women, whereby all (but eight) perished.
- 23. Whether it bee credible that the Angells being of an incorporeall nature should lust after the women of earth, and marrying them, beget Gyants of them.
- 24. How the wordes that God spake of those that were to perish in the deluge. And their daies shalbe an hundred and twenty yeares, are to be vnderstood.
- 25. Of Gods vnpassionate and vnaltering anger.
- 26. That Noah his Arke, signifieth, Christ and his Church in all things.
- 27. Of the Arke and the Deluge, that the meaning thereof is neither meerly historicall, nor meerely allegoricall.
FINIS.