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 they fail who look at the thing commanded 293. * How the Papists neither understand nor keep God's commandments 294. * What we are to think of the holiness of the Papists 295. f. All God commands is good, even if it seems different to reason 296. * How the Papists do harm by the works of their wisdom, and only provoke God to anger, as king Saul did 297. g. How in his obedience Noah held simply to God's Word and overcame all difficulties 298. VII. THE ANIMALS AND THEIR FOOD, AND NOAH'S OBEDIENCE. A. THE ANIMALS NOAH TOOK INTO THE ARK. Vs. 19-20. _And every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive._