spring 55.

* What kind of grief is the grief of the Holy Spirit 56.

* God's severest punishment 57-59.

* What follows when man does not possess God's Word 57-58.

* Why the heathen are so carnal 58.

4. The nature of this judgment and lamentation 59.

* The lamentation and judgment of Luther over Germany because
it lightly esteemed God's Word 60.

* The spirit of grace and of prayer 61.

* The office of the ministry.

a. It requires two things 62.

b. It is the greatest blessing of God 63.

c. To despise it is a great sin, and what follows when it is
taken from a people 63.

d. A complaint of its neglect 64.

e. This office is explained by the expression "to judge" 65.

* Every godly preacher is one who disputes and judges 65.

* Luther's grief because of the stubbornness of the world
66.

* Why Ahab called Elijah a troubler of Israel 67.

* Why the world resents being reproved by sound doctrine. It
is a good sign if a minister is reviled by the world 68.

* The glory of people who boast of being the Church.

a. Such glory avails nothing before God 68-70.

b. Papists wish by all means to have this glory 68-70.

c. Papists need this glory to suppress the Protestants 71.

d. Christ will decide at the judgment day to whom this glory
belongs 71.

e. Although the first world adorned itself with this glory,
it did not save them 72.

5. How and why this judgment and complaint are ascribed to God
73-74.

6. How they were published to the world by the holy patriarchs
75.

7. Why they were made 76.

8. In what way they have been published to the world 77.

9. How the world resented this judgment and complaint 78.

* Time given to the first world for repentance.

a. We are not to understand the 120 years as the period of a
man's life 79.

b. The 120 years the time given these people in which to
repent 80-81.

10. Whether and to what end this time was necessary 82.

11. How the old world felt upon hearing this 83.

* The complaint and judgment of the last world 84-86.

* The nearer the world approaches its