TION.

* How this chapter and the preceding one are connected 1.

* It is terrible that God destroyed by a flood the first world, which
was the best 2.

* Of pride and the proud.

1. How God humbles what is high and grand in the eyes of the
world and has the best gifts 3-4.

* How man can meet the judgments of God 4.

2. The more gifts man has the greater his pride 5.

3. The most terrible examples of punishment God gives in the
case of the proud and such examples should be diligently
pondered 6-7.

* The complaint that the world is hardened by reason of God's
judgments 7-8.

4. How the ancient world was misled into pride through its gifts
9-10.

5. Pride is the common weakness of human nature 11.

6. In what ways man is moved to pride 12-13.

a. The chief sin of the old world 14-15.

* Pride is the spring of all vices 15.

b. How the old world sinned against the first table of the
law, and brought on the sins against the second table 16.

c. How and why God punished the old world 17.

* From the punishment of the first world we conclude that
the last world will be also punished 18.

d. Whether the first world was wicked before Noah's birth; on
what occasion its wickedness increased 19.

* Noah the martyr of martyrs 20.

* Why Lamech called his son Noah 21.

e. How sin greatly increased in the days of Noah 22.

* Why Noah remained unmarried so long, which was his
greatest cross 23.

f. When the wickedness of the old world began 24.

* Concerning unchastity.

(1) It is the foundation of all want and misery 24.

(2) It is the spring of many other sins 25.

(3) How to remedy it 25.

(4) Whether bearing children is in itself to be reckoned
as unchastity, and how far Moses denounces it 26.

(5) Unchastity makes the bearing of children difficult 27.

g. The reason the sons of God looked upon the daughters of
men 28.

h. Why the sin of the first world was not so terrible as the
sin of the second 29-30.

i. How the first world changed through the marriages of Adam
and the other patriarchs 30-32.