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. c. God's promises not rescinded when rejected; who bear the name of the Church 67-68. 7. Whether God fully rescinded through the flood the rule over the earth he once gave man 69. * How God preserved his Church through the deluge 69. 8. The deluge was apparently against God's promise 70. * God allows nothing to hinder the punishment of the impenitent 71-73. * By what means Papists adorn themselves and how it is all in vain 72. * Why we should not rely on present, temporal things, but upon God's Word 73. * The marks of a true Church. a. What they are not and what they are 74-76. b. Papists have characteristics Holy Scriptures give as marks of Antichrist 75. c. Church born of God's Word and is to be known by that Word 76. d. Rule to be observed in the marks of the true Church 77.