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- Title Page
- Chapter I. Modesty, the flower of manners
- Chapter II.--God Just as Well as Merciful; Accordingly, Mercy Must Not Be Indiscriminate.
- Chapter III.--An Objection Anticipated Before the Discussion Above Promised is Commenced.
- Chapter IV.--Adultery and Fornication Synonymous.
- Chapter V.--Of the Prohibition of Adultery in the Decalogue.
- Chapter VI.--Examples of Such Offences Under the Old Dispensation No Pattern for the Disciples of the New. But Even the Old Has Examples of Vengeance Upon Such Offences.
- Chapter VII.--Of the Parables of the Lost Ewe and the Lost Drachma.
- Chapter VIII.--Of the Prodigal Son.
- Chapter IX.--Certain General Principles of Parabolic Interpretation These Applied to the Parables Now Under Consideration, Especially to that of the Prodigal Son.
- Chapter X.--Repentance More Competent to Heathens Than to Christians.
- Chapter XI.--From Parables Tertullian Comes to Consider Definite Acts of the Lord.
- Chapter XII.--Of the Verdict of the Apostles, Assembled in Council, Upon the Subject of Adultery.
- Chapter XIII.--Of St. Paul, and the Person Whom He Urges the Corinthians to Forgive.
- Chapter XIV.--The Same Subject Continued.
- Chapter XV.--The Same Subject Continued.
- Chapter XVI.--General Consistency of the Apostle.
- Chapter XVII.--Consistency of the Apostle in His Other Epistles.
- Chapter XVIII.--Answer to a Psychical Objection.
- Chapter XIX.--Objections from the Revelation and the First Epistle of St. John Refuted.
- Chapter XX.--From Apostolic Teaching Tertullian Turns to that of Companions of the Apostles, and of the Law.
- Chapter XXI.--Of the Difference Between Discipline and Power, and of the Power of the Keys.
- Chapter XXII.--Of Martyrs, and Their Intercession on Behalf of Scandalous Offenders.
- Elucidations.