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THE CONTENTS OF THE TWO and twentith booke of the City of God.
- 1. Of the estate of Angels and of Men.
- 2. Of the eternall and vnchangeable will of God.
- 3. The promise of the Saints eternall blisse, and the wickeds perpetuall torment.
- 4. Against the wise-men of the world that hold it impossible for mans body to bee trans∣ported vp to the dwellings of ioy in heauen.
- 5. Of the resurrection of the body, beleeued by the whole world, excepting some few.
- 6▪ That loue made the Romaines deifie their founder Romulus, and faith made the Church to loue her Lord and maister Christ Iesus.
- 7. That the beleefe of Christs deity was wrought by Gods power, not mans perswasion.
- 8. Of the miracles which haue beene, and are as yet wrought, to procure and confirme the worlds beleefe in Christ.
- 9. That all the miracles done by the Mar∣tyrs in the name of Christ, were onely confir∣mations of that faith, whereby the Mariyrs beleeued in Christ.
- 10. How much honour the Martyres de∣serue in obtaining miracles for the worship of the true God, in respect of the Deuills, whose workes tend all to make men thinke that they are Gods.
- 11. Against the Platonists, that oppose the eleuation of the body vp to Heauen by argu∣ments of elementary ponderosity.
- 12. Against the Infidels calumnies, cast out in scorne of the Christians beleefe of the resur∣rection.
- 13. Whether Abortiues belong not to the re∣surrection, if they belong to the dead.
- 14. Whether Infants shall rise againe in the stature that they dyed in.
- 15. Whether all of the resurrection shall bee of the stature of Christ.
- 16. What is meant by the confirmation of the Saints vnto the Image of the Sonne of God.
- 17. Whether that women shall retaine their proper sexe in the resurrection.
- 18. Of Christ the perfect man, and the Church, his body and fulnesse.
- 19. That our bodies in the resurrection shall haue no imperfection at all, what-so-euer they haue had during this life, but shall •…•…e perfect both in quantity and quality.
- 20. That euery mans body, how euer disper∣sed heere, shall bee restored him perfect at the resurrection.
- 21. What new and spirituall bodies shall bee giuen vnto the Saints.
- 22. Of mans miseries drawne vpon him by his first parents, and taken away from him, one∣ly by Christs merits and gratious goodnesse.
- 23. Of accidents, seuered from the common estate of man, and peculiar onely to the iust and righteous.
- 24. Of the goods that God hath bestowed vpon this miserable life of ours.
- 25. Of the obstinacie of some few in denying the resurrection, which the whole world belee∣ueth, as it was fore-told.
- 26. That Porphiries opinion that the bles∣sed soules should haue no bodies, is confuted by Plato him-selfe, who saith that the Creator promised the inferiour Deities, that they should neuer loose their bodies.
- 27. Contrarieties betweene Plato and Por∣phery, wherein if either should yeeld vnto other, both should finde out the truth.
- 28. What either Plato, Labeo or Varro might haue auailed to the true faith of the resurrecti∣on, if they had had an harmony in their opinions.
- 29. Of the quality of the vision, with which the Saints shall see GOD in the world to come.
- 30. Of the eternall felicity of the Citty of GOD, and the perpetuall Sabboth.
FINIS.