* By what means the Papists contend against the Evangelicals 198. 4. With what the world especially upbraided righteous Noah 199. * People then were wiser and more ingenious than now 200. 5. Noah may be called both just and pious 201. 6. Righteous Noah led a godly life, possessed great courage and was a marvelous character 202. 7. By his piety Noah was a confessor of the truth 203-204. * It is very difficult for one man to withstand the united opposition of many 204. 8. Being a preacher of righteousness Noah was in greater danger 205. 9. Noah an example of patience and of all virtues 206. 10. How he traveled and preached everywhere in the world, and preserved the human race temporally and spiritually 207-208. 11. The world takes offense at righteous Noah's marrying, and adds sin to sin 209. 12. The order of the birth of Noah's sons 210. B. THE WHOLE WORLD DESTROYED. 1. Whether, as Lyra teaches, birds and animals were destroyed 211. * Why the punishment of sin was visited also upon the animals 212-213. 2. The meaning of "the earth was corrupt before God" 214-216. * The sins against the first table of the law can easier be concealed than those against the second table 214. * Where false doctrine is taught, godless living follows 215. 3. How the earth was corrupt in the light of the first table of the law 215-216. 4. How the earth was corrupt in the light of the second table 217-218. * The meaning of "violence" in Scripture 218. * The greatest violence can obtain under the appearance of holiness, as among the Papists and Turks 219-221. * Moses beautifully traces the course God takes in his judgments 222. * Who can pass the right judgment upon the pope that he is Antichrist 223. * How Antichrist strengthens the courage of the godly, and whether they can check him 223. 5. Noah laments this corruption 224. * Godlessness cannot be remedied when it adorns itself with the appearance of holiness 225. 6. How God views this corruption 226. * Luther laments the wickedness of the enemies of the Gospel 227. * How we should view God's delay in punishing the wickedness of his enemies 228. * God's delay is very hard for believers 229. 7. The first world, although corrupt, was much better than the present world 230. V. HOW NOAH ALONE WAS FOUND RIGHTEOUS, AND HOW THE WHOLE WORLD WAS DESTROYED. A. Noah Alone Was found Righteous. V. 8. _But Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah._