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THE CONTENTS OF THE ONE and twentith booke of the City of God.
- 1. Why the punishment of the damned is here disputed of before the happinesse of the Saints.
- 2. Whether an earthly body may possibly bee incorruptible by fire.
- 3. Whether a fleshly body may possibly endure eternall paine.
- 4. Natures testimonies that bodies may re∣maine vndiminished in the fire.
- 5. Of such things as cannot bee assuredlie knowne to be such, and yet are not to be doubted of.
- 6. All strange effects are not natures, some are mans deuises, some the deuills.
- 7. Gods omnipotency the ground of all be∣liefe in things admired.
- 8. That the alteration of the knowne nature of any creature, vnto a nature vnknowne, is not opposite, vnto the lawes of nature.
- 9. Of Hell, and the quality of the eternall paines therein.
- 10. Whether the fire of hell, if it be corporall, can take effect vpon the incorporeal deuills.
- 11. Whether it be not iustice that the time of the paines should bee proportioned to the time of the sinnes and cri•…•…es.
- 12. The greatnesse of Adams sin, inflicting eternall damnation vpon all that are out of the state of grace.
- 13. Against such as hold that the torments after the Iudgement, shalbe but the meanes whereby the soules shalbe purified.
- 14. The temporall paines of this life afflic∣ting al man-kinde.
- 15. That the scope of Gods redeeming vs, is wholy pertinent to the world to come.
- 16. The lawes of Grace, that all the •…•…regene∣rate are blessed in.
- 17. Of some christians that held that hells paines should not be eternal.
- 18. Of those that hold that the Intercession of the Saints shal saue all men from damnati∣on.
- 19. Of such as hold that heretiques shalbe saued, in that they haue pertaken of the body of Christ.
- 20. Of such as allow this deliuerance onely to wicked and reuolted Catholikes
- 21. Of such as affirme that al that abide in the Catholike faith shalbe saued for that faith.
- 22. Of such as affirme that the sinnes com∣mitted amongst the workes of mercy, shal not be called into Iudgement.
- 23. Against those that exclude both men & deuils from paines eternal.
- 24. Against those that would proue al dam∣nation frustrate by the praiers of the Saints.
- 25. Whether that such as beeing baptized by heretiques, become wicked in life, or amongst Catholiques, and then fal away into heresies & schismes, or contynuing amongst Catholiques be of vicious conuersation, can haue any hope of escaping damnation, by the priuiledge of the Sacraments.
- 26. What it is to haue Christ for the founda∣tion: where they are, that shalbe saued (as it were) by fire.
- 27. Against those that thinke those sinnes shall not be laid to their charge, wherewith they mixed some workes of mercy.
FINIS.