A Declaracion of the first boke
That the deuysed comfortes by the old pa[…] nim philosophers, wer vnsufficient, and the cause wherefore.
cap. i.
That for a foundacion men must nedes beginne with faith.
cap. ii.
The first cōfort in tribulacion may a man take in this, whan he feleth a desire and longing to be coumforted by god.
ca. iii.
That tribulacion is a meane to draw a man to yt good minde to desire and long for the cōforte of god.
ca. iiii.
The speciall meane to geat this first comforte in tribulacion.
ca. v.
It […]uffiseth not that a mā haue a desire to be cōforted by god, only by the taking away of ye tribulacion.
ca. vi.
A great comfort it may be in tribulaciō, that euerye tribulaciō is, if we our self wil, a thing ether medicinable, or els more than medi[…]inable.
ca. vii.
The declaracion larger concernyng them that fall in tribulacion by their owne knowen faulte and that yet suche tribulacion is medicinable.
cap. viii.
The second point, that is to wit, that tribulacion that is sent vs by god without ani open certain deseruing cause knowen to our self: & this kind of tribulacion is medicinable, if men wil so take it[…] and therefore great occasion of coumforte.
cap. ix
Of ye third kind of tribulaciō which is not sent a mā for his sinne, but for exercise of his pacience & encrease of his merite, which is better then medicinable.
cap. x.
An other kind of comfort yet in the base kind of tribulacion sent for oure sinne.
cap. xi.
A certain obieccion against ye thinges aforesaid.
ca. xii.
That a man ought to be comfortable to himselfe, & haue good hope, & be ioyfull also in tribulaciō, appeareth wel by this, that a man hath greate cause of feare and heauines that continueth alway stil in welth, discontinued with no tribulacion.
cap. xiii.
A certain obieccion and the answer therto.
cap. xiiii.
Other obieccions.
cap. xv.
The answer to the obieccion.
cap. xvi.
An answer to the second obiec[…]ion.
cap. xvii.
Of thē that in tribulacion seke not vnto god: but some to the flesh, and some to the world, and some to ye deuil himself.
cap. xviii.
An other obieccion with the answer therunto.
cap. xix.
A Summary commendacion of tribulacion.
cap. xx.
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