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Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Chapter I.--Of Patience Generally; And Tertullian's Own Unworthiness to Treat of It.
- Chapter II.--God Himself an Example of Patience.
- Chapter III.--Jesus Christ in His Incarnation and Work a More Imitable Example Thereof.
- Chapter IV.--Duty of Imitating Our Master Taught Us by Slaves Even by Beasts. Obedient Imitation is Founded on Patience.
- Chapter V.--As God is the Author of Patience So the Devil is of Impatience.
- Chapter VI.--Patience Both Antecedent and Subsequent to Faith.
- Chapter VII.--The Causes of Impatience, and Their Correspondent Precepts.
- Chapter VIII.--Of Patience Under Personal Violence and Malediction.
- Chapter IX.--Of Patience Under Bereavement.
- Chapter X.--Of Revenge.
- Chapter XI.--Further Reasons for Practising Patience. Its Connection with the Beatitudes.
- Chapter XII.--Certain Other Divine Precepts The Apostolic Description of Charity. Their Connection with Patience.
- Chapter XIII.--Of Bodily Patience.
- Chapter XIV.--The Power of This Twofold Patience, the Spiritual and the Bodily Exemplified in the Saints of Old.
- Chapter XV.--General Summary of the Virtues and Effects of Patience.
- Chapter XVI.--The Patience of the Heathen Very Different from Christian Patience Theirs Doomed to Perdition. Ours Destined to Salvation.
- Elucidations.