Chapter 12

I. THE SINS OF THE FIRST WORLD, THE CAUSE OF ITS DESTRUCTION.

* How this chapter and the preceding one are connected 1.

* It is terrible that God destroyed by a flood the first world, which was the best 2.

* Of pride and the proud.

1. How God humbles what is high and grand in the eyes of the world and has the best gifts 3-4.

* How man can meet the judgments of God 4.

2. The more gifts man has the greater his pride 5.

3. The most terrible examples of punishment God gives in the case of the proud and such examples should be diligently pondered 6-7.

* The complaint that the world is hardened by reason of God's judgments 7-8.

4. How the ancient world was misled into pride through its gifts 9-10.

5. Pride is the common weakness of human nature 11.

6. In what ways man is moved to pride 12-13.

a. The chief sin of the old world 14-15.

* Pride is the spring of all vices 15.

b. How the old world sinned against the first table of the law, and brought on the sins against the second table 16.

c. How and why God punished the old world 17.

* From the punishment of the first world we conclude that the last world will be also punished 18.