n so holy
fell from grace, which they had accepted and for a long time enjoyed,
we should look anxiously to God as if in peril at this very moment. In
this manner these examples are discussed to our profit; but those who
give no attention to them and chase after complex high thoughts on an
election according to the purpose of God, drive and thrust their souls
into despair, to which they naturally incline.

VII. ANIMALS AND FOOD IN THE ARK; NOAH'S OBEDIENCE.

A. THE ANIMALS NOAH TOOK INTO THE ARK.

1. The number and kinds of animals 271-272.

2. The differences in the animals 273.

a. What is understood by the "Behemoth" 274.

b. By the "Remes" 275.

c. Whether this difference is observed in all places 276.

3. Whether wild and ferocious animals were in paradise, and if
created from the beginning 276-277.

4. How Noah could bring the animals, especially the wild ones,
into the ark 278-279.

* The animals at the time felt danger was near 278-279.

5. The animals came of themselves to Noah in the ark 280.

B. THE FOOD NOAH TOOK INTO THE ARK.

1. Why necessary to take with them food 281.

* The kind of food man then had, and if he ate flesh 282.

2. God's foreknowledge shines forth here 283.

3. Why God did not maintain man and the animals in the ark by a
miracle 284.

* The extraordinary ways and miracles of God.

a. Why man should not seek miracles, where ordinary ways and
means are at hand 285.

b. The monks seek extraordinary ways and thus tempt God 286.

* Whether we should use medicine, and if we should learn the
arts and languages 286.

c. Why God did not save Noah in the water without the ark,
when he could have done so 287.

d. When does God use extraordinary means with man 288.

C. NOAH'S OBEDIENCE.

1. In what respect it was especially praised 289.

* Obedience to God.

a. How one is to keep the golden mean, and not turn to the
right or left 290.

b. How man can by obedience or disobedience mark out his own
course 290-291.

c. Why most people shun obedience 291.

d. How we are here not to look to the thing commanded, but to
the person commanding 292-296.

e. How sadly the