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Introductory Note.

v.ii.i

Preface.

v.ii.ii

God's Indignation.

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The Worship of Demons.

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Saturn.

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Jupiter.

v.ii.vi

Of the Same Jupiter's Thunderbolt.

v.ii.vii

Of the Septizonium and the Stars.

v.ii.viii

Of the Sun and Moon.

v.ii.ix

Mercury.

v.ii.x

Neptune.

v.ii.xi

Apollo the Soothsaying and False.

v.ii.xii

Father Liber--Bacchus.

v.ii.xiii

The Unconquered One.

v.ii.xiv

Sylvanus.

v.ii.xv

Hercules.

v.ii.xvi

Of the Gods and Goddesses.

v.ii.xvii

Of Their Images.

v.ii.xviii

Of Ammydates and the Great God.

v.ii.xix

Of the Vain Nemesiaci.

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The Titans.

v.ii.xxi

The Montesiani.

v.ii.xxii

The Dulness of the Age.

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Of Those Who are Everywhere Ready.

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Of Those Who Live Between the Two.

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They Who Fear and Will Not Believe.

v.ii.xxvi

To Those Who Resist the Law of Christ the Living God.

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O Fool, Thou Dost Not Die to God.

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The Righteous Rise Again.

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To the Wicked and Unbelieving Rich Man.

v.ii.xxx

Rich Men, Be Humble.

v.ii.xxxi

To Judges.

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To Self-Pleasers.

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To the Gentiles.

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Moreover, to Ignorant Gentiles.

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Of the Tree of Life and Death.

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Of the Foolishness of the Cross.

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The Fanatics Who Judaize.

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To the Jews.

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Also to the Jews.

v.ii.xl

Again to the Same.

v.ii.xli

Of the Time of Antichrist.

v.ii.xlii

Of the Hidden and Holy People of the Almighty Christ, the Living God.

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Of the End of This Age.

v.ii.xliv

Of the First Resurrection.

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Of the Day of Judgment.

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To Catechumens.

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To the Faithful.

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O Faithful, Beware of Evil.

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To Penitents.

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Who Have Apostatized from God.

v.ii.li

Of Infants.

v.ii.lii

Deserters.

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To the Soldiers of Christ.

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Of Fugitives.

v.ii.lv

Of the Seed of the Tares.

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To the Dissembler.

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That Worldly Things are Absolutely to Be Avoided.

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That the Christian Should Be Such.

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To the Matrons of the Church of the Living God.

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To the Same Again.

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In the Church to All the People of God.

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To Him Who Wishes for Martyrdom.

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The Daily War.

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Of the Zeal of Concupiscence.

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They Who Give from Evil.

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Of a Deceitful Peace.

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To Ministers.

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To God's Shepherds.

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I Speak to the Elder-Born.

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To Visit the Sick.

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To the Poor in Health.

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That Sons are Not to Be Bewailed.

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Of Funeral Pomp.

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To the Clerks.

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Of Those Who Gossip, and of Silence.

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To the Drunkards.

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To the Pastors.

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To the Petitioners.

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The Name of the Man of Gaza.

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Elucidation.

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