The Fifth Book. Of Their Consistories

Chap. 1. Courts of Judgements, their Ecclesiastical Consistory.

2. Sorts of Excommunication.

3. Civil Consistories, what persons necessarily present, what meant by the Magistrate, Judge, and Officer, Luk. 12. 58.

4. The number of their civil Courts, what meant by a Council, Judgement, fire of Gehenna, Matth. 5.

5. Manner of electing Judges.

6. Ceremonies common in all capital Judgements: whence that phrase came, his bloud be on us and our children.

7. Their capital punishments what they were.

8. Punishments not capital.

9. Punishments borrowed from other Nations: whether S. Paul fought with the beasts at Ephesus.