The Instructor

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Contents 39 sections

Chapter I. The Office of the Instructor.
Chapter II.—Our Instructor’s Treatment of Our Sins.
Chapter III.—The Philanthropy of the Instructor.
Chapter IV.—Men and Women Alike Under the Instructor’s Charge.
Chapter V.—All Who Walk According to Truth are Children of God.
Chapter VI.—The Name Children Does Not Imply Instruction in Elementary Principles.
Chapter VII.—Who the Instructor Is, and Respecting His Instruction.
Chapter VIII.—Against Those Who Think that What is Just is Not Good.
Chapter IX.—That It is the Prerogative of the Same Power to Be Beneficent and to Punish Justly. Also the Manner of the Instruction of the Logos.
Chapter X.—That the Same God, by the Same Word, Restrains from Sin by Threatening, and Saves Humanity by Exhorting.
Chapter XI.—That the Word Instructed by the Law and the Prophets.
Chapter XII.—The Instructor Characterized by the Severity and Benignity of Paternal Affection.
Chapter XIII.—Virtue Rational, Sin Irrational.
Chap. I.—On Eating.
Chapter II.—On Drinking.
Chapter III.—On Costly Vessels.
Chapter IV.—How to Conduct Ourselves at Feasts.
Chapter V.—On Laughter.
Chapter VI.—On Filthy Speaking.
Chapter VII.—Directions for Those Who Live Together.
Chapter VIII.—On the Use of Ointments and Crowns.
Chap. IX.—On Sleep.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.—On Clothes.
Chap. XII.—On Shoes.
Chapter XIII—Against Excessive Fondness for Jewels and Gold Ornaments.
Chapter I.—On the True Beauty.
Chapter II.—Against Embellishing the Body.
Chapter III.—Against Men Who Embellish Themselves.
Chapter IV.—With Whom We are to Associate.
Chapter V.—Behaviour in the Baths.
Chapter VI.—The Christian Alone Rich.
Chapter VII.—Frugality a Good Provision for the Christian.
Chapter VIII.—Similitudes and Examples a Most Important Part of Right Instruction.
Chapter IX.—Why We are to Use the Bath.
Chapter X.—The Exercises Suited to a Good Life.
Chapter XI.—A Compendious View of the Christian Life.
Chapter XII.—Continuation: with Texts from Scripture.
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