The Preachers' Garden of the Triumphant City of Jerusalem

of Considerations,

The first cause why nothing is built there for its own defense. ch. 2. 106
The second cause. ch. 3. 107
The final cause. ch. 4. ibid.
Bulwarks are not built, because it has a triple wall; and what it is. ch. 5. 108
Why God's protection is multiplied in the Church militant. 109

DISCOURSE III.

Into how many parts, more and less principal, the whole celestial City is divided; what the differences of its houses are; and what and how many are its houses and streets. 110
On the courts of heaven, and how its houses are built there. ch. 1. ibid.
The division of all the blessed into ten choirs. ch. 2. ibid.
The division of the Empyrean into ten spheres, and their subdivision. ch. 3. 111
An illustrative example. ch. 4. 112
What the four differences of the houses are, and why the blessed are gathered in this college rather than that one. ch. 5. ibid.
What and how many are the houses, courts, and streets of the celestial City. ch. 6. 114
On the small spheres of the tenth and final choir. ch. 7. ibid.

DISCOURSE IV.

What and how many, in another sense, are the mystical streets and lanes of this City, and which are more and less principal; Why and how one is more excellent than another. 105
On the mystical streets of the heavenly Jerusalem in another sense, and that they are multiplied by the multiplication of mutual love. ch. 1. ibid.
What the most principal street is here. ch. 2. 116
On the ten principal streets. ch. 3. 117

On the inequality of these streets. ch. 4. 318
On the excellence of the most principal street. ch. 5. ibid.
Regarding which streets the Church sings in the Hymn; and on the degrees of charity. ch. 6. 119

DISCOURSE V.

On the material of the building of the houses and dwellings, and on the conditions of the stones of this City, which is demonstrated by an example. 120
On the material and qualities of the stones of this City and structure. ch. 1. ibid.
On the various polishing of these stones. ch. 2. 121
An illustrative example of how these stones are joined with gold, and of their unequal preciousness. ch. 3. 122
Application of the example. ch. 4. 123
Explanation of the example or figure. ch. 5. 124

DISCOURSE VI.

On the polishing and adornment of the stones of the building of the heavenly city, and why it is polished more or less, and whether this is of ourselves or of God. 125
How these stones are polished in diverse ways. ch. 1. ibid.
An illustrative example of this polishing. ch. 2. 126
That by our own fault we are often not made stones fit for a higher choir. ch. 3. 127
Sometimes, however, on the part of God one is not raised to a higher degree. ch. 4. 128

DISCOURSE VII.

On the principal artisan, and on the rest of the artisans, and on the instruments and the manner by which and how the stones of the structure of the celestial city are polished and made perfect and precious. 129