* The double grief of the first parents 154. * What was Adam's church and altar 155. 3. How Cain was excommunicated 156. * God's inquiry about Abel's blood. a. How unbelievers refer to it 157. b. How a theologian should use it 158. c. It is a great and important matter 159. * How Abel's death is to be viewed 159. d. Why God does not inquire after the blood of beasts 160-161. e. Whether this inquiry was from God direct or made through Adam 162-163. f. How Cain felt upon this inquiry 164. * The result of sin to murderers and other sinners 165-166. * An evil conscience the result of evil-doing 166. g. How to understand the statement that Abel's blood crieth to heaven 167. * How God's children are to comfort themselves when the world oppresses them and seemingly God refuses to help 168-171. h. This inquiry is a sign of God's care for Abel 169. * The blood of many Evangelical martyrs cry to the Papists 170. * How God opportunely judges the afflictions of believers 171. * Why God's vengeance does not immediately follow 172. i. The time this inquiry occurred 173. * God indeed has regard for the sufferings and tears of his children 174. * How sinners can meet the judgments of God 174. 4. The miserable life Cain must have led after his punishment 175. B. CAIN'S PUNISHMENT IN DETAIL. 1. The Church suffered. a. How Cain's punishment and curse differed from Adam's 176-178. b. Why Cain's person was cursed 178-179. * The more Cain desired honor, the less he received 180. * The beginning of both churches, the true and the false 181. * Cain's whole posterity perished in sin 181. c. How his curse and punishment were lightened 182. * Whether any of Cain's posterity were saved, and holy 182. * The way the heathen had part in the promise 182-185. * The way Cain withheld his children from the true Church 185. 2. The Home suffered. a. How this curse affected the earth 186-187. b. Why Adam used such severe words in this curse 186. c. How it caused the earth to be less fruitful 187. * The difference between "Arez" and "Adama" 188. 3. The State suffered. * What "No" and "Nod" mean, and how they differ 189-190. * Cain's sin punished in three ways and in each the sin was mitigated 191-193. * Cain a fugitive and a wanderer. a. This refers chiefly to the true Church, as is illustrated by many examples of the saints 194-195. b. It refers less to the false 194-195.