On the Government of God. a Treatise Wherein Are Shown by Argument and by Examples Drawn from the Abandoned Society of the Times the Ways of God Toward His Creatures.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• TeilnehmendeR: Sanford, Eva M.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1930]; ©1930
• Year of Publication: 1930
• Language: English
• Series: Records of Civilization. Sources and Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Proposes that the decline of the Roman power demonstrated God's government and judgment of human actions, since the sins of the Romans were such as had always been visited with instant punishment.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preface, to Salonius -- Book I. The government of God proved by the general conviction of mankind, and by his judgment recounted in the books of Moses -- Book II. The immediate judgment of God as seen in the history of King David -- Book III. On the obligations of the Christian life -- Book IV. On the oppressions wrought by the Roman nobles, and the guilt of Christians as compared with pagans -- Book V. On heresy, and on the oppression of the poor by the powerful throughout the Roman Empire -- Book VI. On the ruinous influence of circuses and spectacles -- Book VII. Wherein Roman vice is contrasted with Vandal virtue -- Book VIII. That the sins of the Romans are alone responsible for their ruin -- Bibliography -- Index