ely shown to him,
but embraced it in simple faith.

II. COMPLETE DESTRUCTION BY FLOOD.

* Why Moses so often repeats and expresses in few words what other
writers describe at length 35-39.

* Noah's grief because of the approaching calamity 38.

* The way of coarse and satiated spirits 39.

1. When did the flood commence.

a. Some think it began in the spring 40.

b. Others think it began in the autumn 41.

c. Which is the more probable 42.

* What to think of the Jews reckoning the year has two
beginnings 44.

2. How the flood continued.

a. Must distinguish the fountains of the earth, the windows of
heaven and the rain 45.

* Of the earth and the water.

(1) Why the water does not overflow the earth since the earth
floats in the water 46.

(2) Why the water above the earth does not fall and overflow
the earth 47-48.

(3) How the prophets wondered at this as a miracle, but we in
our day give it little thought 49.

b. How were the fountains broken up, how can such a work be
ascribed to God 50-51.

* Overflowing of the German fountains at Halle 51.

c. How were the windows of heaven opened 52.

(1) What is meant by the windows of heaven 53.

(2) Why such words used here 53.

3. Flood covered and destroyed the whole earth 54.

4. Why God sent the deluge 54.

* Why God so often repeats the same thing 55-60.

* What is meant by Zippor 55.

* How God's wrath as seen in the deluge was very great 56-57.

5. The deluge was a terrible spectacle; Noah and his sons took
courage from it 58-60.

* Noah's glorious faith at the sight of the deluge 60.

* Noah's long ship voyage; how he was comforted 61.

6. How the world's destruction harmonizes with God's promises: how
the promises to the Church agree with his threatenings 62ff.

* God's threatenings and man's unbelief.

a. Why the first world believed not the threatenings about the
deluge 62ff.

b. Why the Jews believe not the threatenings of the prophets 63.

c. Why the Papists believed not the threats against them 64.

* God's Church and her maintenance.

a. The world understands not how the church is maintained 66.

b. What is the true form of the true Church 66.