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Book XI.
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The design of his confessions being declared, he seeks from God the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, and begins to expound the words of Genesis I. I, concerning the creation of the world. The questions of rash disputers being refuted, “What did God before he created the world?” That he might the better overcome his opponents, he adds a copious disquisition concerning time.
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vi.XI.I
He Begs of God that Through the Holy Scriptures He May Be Led to Truth.vi.XI.II
He Begins from the Creation of the World—Not Understanding the Hebrew Text.vi.XI.III
Heaven and Earth Cry Out that They Have Been Created by God.vi.XI.IV
God Created the World Not from Any Certain Matter, But in His Own Word.vi.XI.V
He Did Not, However, Create It by a Sounding and Passing Word.vi.XI.VI
By His Co-Eternal Word He Speaks, and All Things are Done.vi.XI.VII
That Word Itself is the Beginning of All Things, in the Which We are Instructed as to Evangelical Truth.vi.XI.VIII
Wisdom and the Beginning.vi.XI.IX
The Rashness of Those Who Inquire What God Did Before He Created Heaven and Earth.vi.XI.X
They Who Ask This Have Not as Yet Known the Eternity of God, Which is Exempt from the Relation of Time.vi.XI.XI
What God Did Before the Creation of the World.vi.XI.XII
Before the Times Created by God, Times Were Not.vi.XI.XIII
Neither Time Past Nor Future, But the Present Only, Really is.vi.XI.XIV
There is Only a Moment of Present Time.vi.XI.XV
Time Can Only Be Perceived or Measured While It is Passing.vi.XI.XVI
Nevertheless There is Time Past and Future.vi.XI.XVII
Past and Future Times Cannot Be Thought of But as Present.vi.XI.XVIII
We are Ignorant in What Manner God Teaches Future Things.vi.XI.XIX
In What Manner Time May Properly Be Designated.vi.XI.XX
How Time May Be Measured.vi.XI.XXI
He Prays God that He Would Explain This Most Entangled Enigma.vi.XI.XXII
That Time is a Certain Extension.vi.XI.XXIII
That Time is Not a Motion of a Body Which We Measure by Time.vi.XI.XXIV
He Calls on God to Enlighten His Mind.vi.XI.XXV
We Measure Longer Events by Shorter in Time.vi.XI.XXVI
Times are Measured in Proportion as They Pass by.vi.XI.XXVII
Time in the Human Mind, Which Expects, Considers, and Remembers.vi.XI.XXVIII
That Human Life is a Distraction But that Through the Mercy of God He Was Intent on the Prize of His Heavenly Calling.vi.XI.XXIX
Again He Refutes the Empty Question, ‘What Did God Before the Creation of the World?’vi.XI.XXX
How the Knowledge of God Differs from that of Man.vi.XI.XXXI